The Strangest Northerns: Frozen in Fear!
If you missed the last one… The strange Northern often features something from the past frozen in ice to be released on unsuspecting people. The Read More
Tag: King Kong
Monster Genre III: A Ramble
Time is a fine polisher. Take for example Charles L. Grant’s words from 1983 and the Introduction to Shadows 6: “There are Critters and there Read More
One Million Years BC – The Comics!
Hal Roach produced One Million Years B.C. in 1940. The film starred Victor Mature as Tumak, Carole Landis as Loana and Lon Chaney Jr. as Read More
Golden Age Islands of Terror!
Golden Age Islands of Terror! Not your vacationing hotspot but a physical cage for bad things to happen in. Islands offer the Horror/Suspense writer a Read More
Tomahawk and King Colosso
Tomahawk and King Colosso seems like an odd pairing until you remember that the long running series (September-October 1950 to May-June 1972) did all kinds Read More
The Lost World in Comics I
In a previous post I wrote about a seven page story, “Creatures of Fantasy”, that jammed Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs Read More
Gorillas and Apes in Weird Tales
Gorillas and Apes in Weird Tales seems like a common occurrence but in 279 issues it only happened a handful to times. That handful gave Read More
Chane of the Golden Hair
Chane of the Golden Hair was a character written and drawn by Gil Kane. He appeared three times in the back pages of The Savage Read More
Those Fantastic Ape Monsters
Those fantastic ape monsters of Fantasy & Science Fiction show our interest in our shaggy relatives. Fiction writers produced tales of apes and apish creatures Read More
Edgar Rice Conan Verne in Seven Pages
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and maybe just a dash of H. Rider Haggard, and all in seven pages. Ace Magazines published Read More