The Savage Land: A Pulp Heritage
The Savage Land from the Ka-Zar comics has an obvious Pulp heritage. Or is it all that obvious? Who was the first person to place Read More
Tag: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Gardner F. Fox’s Crom the Barbarian
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
Attack of the Clones: The Tarzan Clones!
Tarzan clones became a thing in 1926, when Bomba the Jungle Boy (by the house name, Roy Rockwood) began publishing the first close imitation of Read More
Pulp Snow Monsters
New pulp snow monsters are hard to find because I’ve written about so many related creatures already. I wrote about the monsters of the Antarctic Read More
The Monsters of the Hyborian Age 5: Thak the Apeman
In case you missed the last monster… “Rogues in the House” (Weird Tales, January 1934) was the seventh Conan story Howard sold. It is set Read More
Lost Worlds of the Pulps
The lost worlds of the Pulps began almost immediately after a certain book. The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle, oddly, signaled the end Read More
Some Odd 1960s Sword & Sorcery Comics
Some odd 1960s Sword & Sorcery comics are the remainders after you take away the big players. This decade produced more Sword & Sorcery than Read More
John Carter and the Robots of Mars
If you missed the last one… John Carter and the Robots of Mars. Every heard of it? Edgar Rice Burroughs never wrote it but someone Read More
The Flying Death and The Giant Claw
The Flying Death and The Giant Claw share a common source, Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958). Adams was famous as a muckraker and newspaperman. He was Read More
Gallileo Seven and Edmond Hamilton
Weird Tales 1933 A connection between “Gallileo Seven” and Edmond Hamilton may have existed. And it might not have, but I find the parallels intriguing. Read More