The Sword & Sorcery of Gardner F. Fox
The Sword & Sorcery of Gardner F. Fox begins in the 1950s with the creation of the first true S&S comic book hero, Crom the Read More
The Sword & Sorcery of Gardner F. Fox begins in the 1950s with the creation of the first true S&S comic book hero, Crom the Read More
Tarzan and the Leopard Men might not have been Edgar Rice Burroughs’ best Tarzan novel. In fact, it might have been his worst. Richard A. Read More
Gardner F. Fox’s Crom the Barbarian is special. I have avoided it for a while because I really wanted to do it properly. I want Read More
Henry Rider Haggard’s novels of adventure were an obvious choice for comic adaptions. Just as Hollywood found the color and majesty of Africa alluring, so Read More
Robots in the 1950s Golden Age changed very little from the horrible invaders of the 1940s. The robots of the 1950s tended to be in Read More
“The Curse of the Bulaga” is a strange Southern (a tale of the South Pole as opposed to a Northern) that appeared in Avon’s Eerie Read More
Strange Worlds #8 (August 1952) featured a Joe Kubert drawn comic called “The Abduction of Henry Twigg”. Unfortunately the writer is not known though it Read More
Sword & Sorcery is published in many places but the magazines listed here, though not always big publications, were important to the sub-genre. Many of Read More
The Avon Fantasy Reader was an important Pulp reprint anthology (taking its contents from Weird Tales, Thrilling Wonder, The Blue Book, Adventure and Wonder Stories) Read More