Link: Four-Color Sci-Fi: Science Fiction Writers Who Wrote Comics
When radio became big across America in the late 1920s, there were those who worried it would kill pulp magazines. The magazines quickly adapted though Read More
Tag: Manly Wade Wellman
Link: Adventures Into the Unknown World of Horror Comics
Frank Belknap Long had something his more famous friends never did: a long and varied career. Most famous today as HP Lovecraft’s closest friend, Long Read More
The Evolved Man of the Early Pulps
Science Fiction fans laugh (along with everybody else) when they watch Pinky and the Brain. But SF fans laugh just a little louder. The story Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 1
….“you’re Professor Jules de Grandin, the author of Accelerated Evolution?” “The Horror on the Links” originally appeared in Weird Tales, October 1925. A girl is Read More
SF Pulp Authors in Boys’ Life
Boys’ Life is the magazine of the Boy Scouts of America. It began publishing in March 1911 and is still going to this day. The Read More
Manly Wade Wellman Part 2 (1941-1943)
If you miss it: Part 1 (1927-1940). The early 1940s were busy for Manly as he wrote Pulps and comics. Wellman wrote comics for Fawcett, Read More
Link: Zarnak: Forgotten Forerunner
When I wrote this piece I believed Max Plaisted was a pseudonym of Jack Binder. This may be incorrect. Max Plaisted was born the same Read More
Manly Wade Wellman Part 1 (1927-1940)
In the later years of Manly Wade Wellman’s career, his success became largely associated with his horror writing, first from Weird Tales and later in Read More
Link: Top Ten Mythos Tales Not By Lovecraft
This particular piece is highly subjective. I’m just going to say that now. We all like different things and my choices won’t be your choices. Read More
Link: When Planets Clashed: War in Space
Manly Wade Wellman continually surprises me. “When Planets Clashed,” his writing debut back in Wonder Stories Quarterly Spring 1931 is no exception. I expected a juvenile Read More