Haunted! Part 1!
Haunted houses are a traditional setting for certain types of Halloween stories. The old abandoned building that remembers terrible deeds committed there works both as Read More
Tag: Murphy Anderson
Space Heroes of the Golden Age
The Space hero began in the Pulps with characters like Hawk Carse and John Hanson but were quickly adopted into the newspapers with the advent Read More
The Magic Glasses
Last time we looked at Robert Bloch’s “The Cheaters”, which featured a pair of glasses that only saw the truth in people’s minds. Bloch’s idea Read More
The Robots of Strange Adventures
If you missed the last one… Strange Adventures was a DC Science Fiction anthology comic that ran from August-September 1950 to October-November 1973 and two Read More
You Guessed it! More Plant Monsters in Comics!
If you missed the last one… With this post we hit the three hundred and ninety third plant comic in my collected posts. Just shy Read More
More Silver Age Robot Comics – Part 3
If you miss the last one…. Well, our look at Silver Age robots is almost over. By the 1960s, robots were all over the place: Read More
The Return of the Giant Robot II
If you missed the last one… Here is another collection of Giant Robots from the comics. Front and center are the Marvel Silver Age titles Read More
The Visual History of the Banth
Clinton Pettee immortalized the image of the hero astride the back of a lion caught in a titanic struggle. That was for the cover of Read More
The Gorillas of DC’s Strange Adventures
In a previous post I mentioned DC’s predilection for gorilla covers in a piece on Arthur J. Burk’s “Manape the Mighty”. Well, it’s about time Read More
The Seance Begins! Part 2
If you missed the last one… A couple of Golden Age pieces to conclude, before moving onto the much more mundane Silver Age and even Read More