I Can’t Believe It’s More Plant Monsters!
If you missed the last one… It gets harder to talk about plant monsters in comics because there have been literally hundreds of them. My Read More
Tag: Marv Wolfman
Frankenstein’s Monster in Bronze Age Comics: 1970-1974
If you missed the last one… The early 1970s brought us several series (though none ran more than eighteen issues) where the monster acts more Read More
Copies in Bronze
It surprises me greatly that more writers haven’t pastiched the Doc Savage canon. Of those that have tried, success has varied in degrees. It is Read More
Jeffrey Catherine Jones: Early Sword & Sorcery Comics
Jeffrey Catherine Jones did some early Sword & Sorcery comics before and after the rise of old Conan. Some of these comics aren’t pure S&S Read More
Dracula Comics Not in the Tomb
One reader suggested I do a post on Dracula comics not by Marvel. (Thanks, Tim.) Like the word “nonfiction”, we are defining this by what Read More
Bronze Age DC Werewolves Part 3
If you missed the last one… The 1970s are behind us. The 1980s saw the end of the DC Horror comic lines. The House of Read More
Interplanetary Graveyard of the Comics
Having looked at this one in the Pulps, it makes sense to see what the Interplanetary Graveyard of the comics is like. A Sargasso of Read More
Plant Monsters in The House of Mystery
Plant Monsters in The House of Mystery follow the tropes found in fiction first: the haunted tree, the biological experiment, weed men and others. DC Read More
Llana of Gathol: Part 1 “The City of the Mummies”
“The City of the Mummies” in Llana of Gathol (1948) proves it was not a novel so much as a series of stories combined to Read More
The Unspeakable Shrine – Part 1
“The Unspeakable Shrine” was a two-parter in the B&W magazine, Savage Tales. The Brak the Barbarian adventure appeared in issues #7-8 (November 1974-January 1975). Though Read More