Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1964-1965
1964 saw the dinosaurs going primarily to comics about prehistoric settings like Turok, Son of Stone, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and Korak at Gold Key Read More
Tag: Dell Comics
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1962-1963
If you missed 1960-1961… 1963 saw the last of the Dell Tarzan and Turok. In 1964 Gold Key would take up the mantle. We also Read More
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1960-1961
If you missed the 1950s…. In the 1960s, comic covers truly discovered dinosaurs. Whole series now featured dinos every issue. DC and Dell were the Read More
Gulliver’s Covers
Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift is a classic that is rarely appreciated beyond its adventure roots. Swift’s satire pokes fun at politics, science, technology, Read More
Mangani, the Language of the Jungle
Literary types may act proud over the slang in Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange or the linguistic hybrids of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake but fanboys and girls Read More
Link: Turok, Son of Plants
Looking at all the comic books that have used plant monsters, one title stands far above the others for monstrous plants. Now to be clear, Read More
The Land Unknown (1957)
The Land Unknown Trailer Director: Virgil W. VogelCast: Jock Mahoney and Shirley PattersonShawn SmithWilliam ReynoldsHenry BrandonDouglas KennedyPhil Harvey An expedition to the Antarctic discovers a Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Dell Style
The old Dell Comics used a variety of settings over and over. Jungle adventures, tropical islands, Westerns settings and of course, the Northern. With the Read More
The Science Fiction of Donald Duck
It can be fun to read comics that were written and drawn before you were even born. Take Dell Comics for instance. Began as a Read More
O Green Man: The Visual History of the Thark – Part 1
I was scoping out things at a garage sale, with every intent of reselling them on eBay, when I came upon a treasure. (This was Read More