Monsters Unleashed – Hidden Sword & Sorcery
Monsters Unleashed, the black-and-white magazine from Marvel was a trove of hidden Sword & Sorcery. The original goal of the 1973 publications Dracula Lives, Monster Read More
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Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters III
If you missed the last one… Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters III takes us from 1976 to 1982. These won’t be the last of Read More
Nick Cuti and Sword & Sorcery
Nicola Cuti (1944-2020) was born in Brooklyn. He was an airman in the military before working with Ralph Bakshi at the Krantz Animation Studio. He Read More
Second-Hand Sword & Sorcery: Avalon’s Barbarians
Reprints of 1970s material in the 1990s gave us second-hand Sword & Sorcery. Avalon Communications, a Canadian company, published two issues of Barbarians in 1998. Read More
The Saga of Dragonus
The Saga of Dragonus is a short but fascinating two-story entry into early Sword & Sorcery comics. These were done by Frank Brunner, an artist Read More
Mike Ploog at Warren
Before Mike Ploog made a supernatural splash at Marvel drawing The Monster of Frankenstein and Werewolf By Night, he drew four pieces for the horror 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
More H. P. Lovecraft and Charlton Comics
Charlton Comics in the 1970s wasn’t immune to the power of H. P. Lovecraft. Both Marvel and DC had their dalliances, why not Charlton? Tom Read More
Charlton’s Space 1999: The Magazine
Space 1999, the Science Fiction TV show began airing September 4, 1975 and shortly after a new magazine and comic by Charlton appeared in stores. Read More
Charlton’s Space 1999: The Comic Book
With the spectacular failure of U. F. O., Gerry Anderson tried to pull a gem from the ashes with Space 1999. Charlton Comics got the Read More