Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters II
If you missed the last one… Still More Bronze Age Plants II looks at 1974-1976, where there was plenty of plant action. We see several Read More
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Gold Key Does Plant Monsters
Here’s how Gold Key does Plant Monsters in the Bronze Age. Most of these appeared in Boris Karloff’s horror comic but you can find others Read More
The Tarzan Parodies: Garzan the Magnificient
Garzan the Magnificient! You know you have arrived when they start poking fun at you. Tarzan received the parody treatment once he made it to Read More
Marvel Comics Salutes Canada!
Marvel Comics salutes Canada on this 154th Canada Day. I can still remember being a twelve year-old kid living in Dawson Creek, BC and opening Read More
Here Comes the Bride!
Here comes the bride… and boy, is she a beauty! The Golden Age of Horror Comics loved a good wedding. Here are thirteen unlucky nuptials Read More
DC’s Cavemen Capers
DC’s cavemen capers began at the beginning of the company with “Caveman Capers” in 1935’s New Fun Comics. Every so often DC would try a Read More
Robots in the 1950s Golden Age
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
Johnny Peril, Occult Adventurer
Howard Purcell (1918-1981) created Johnny Peril almost by accident. “Just a Story” was a strip that had no real continuing character until Johnny stumbled along. Read More
Three Plant Monsters From Haunted
Plant monster comics go back to the 1940s. What’s easier to draw that branches or vines that catch? Pretty much every comic company used them Read More
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1978-1979
If you missed 1976-1977… 1978 saw the creation of the first comic to star a real dinosaur, Jack Kirby’s Devil Dinosaur. Sadly it only lasted Read More