Repta the Jungle Girl
Repta the Jungle Girl is from “The Beautiful Beast” in The House of Mystery #185 (March-April 1970). The fact that she appeared in a horror Read More
Repta the Jungle Girl is from “The Beautiful Beast” in The House of Mystery #185 (March-April 1970). The fact that she appeared in a horror Read More
The Pulps did not invent the idea of “The Yellow Peril”. Science Fiction had been promoting this racist fear since at least 1880 and Last Read More
The iconic lyrics to the opening song of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, “Science Fiction Double Feature” does a great job of summarizing the favorite Read More
If you missed the 1980s… Jurassic Park is on the horizon, with Spielberg’s film making dinosaurs cool again. Here is that last moment before the Read More
It made sense when Science Fiction went to the stars that the brave men and women who plumbed the depths of space would need weapons Read More
Jack Williamson wrote The Legion of Space for F. Orlin Tremaine’s Astounding Stories, April-August 1934. In that novel a group of brave Earthmen face off Read More
Comics in the late 1930s and early 1940s were a mixed bag. Having spectacular names, promising great entertainment inside, they were generally collections of stock Read More
I am currently re-reading John Jakes’s entire Brak the Barbarian saga, and I was struck by an odd thought. Why do wizards in sword-and-sorcery always Read More
As a Tarzan fan you can’t but help notice all the knock offs and also-rans. Edgar Rice Burroughs created a cottage industry in the jungle. Read More
The term “Space Opera”, used to define a certain branch of Science Fiction, was coined by Wilson Tucker in 1941. It was not meant to Read More