The Monsters of Jay Disbrow
The Monsters of Jay Disbrow is probably the best thing to come from the 1950s comics. Jack Kirby created a million different gigantic creatures, but, Read More
Tag: Northerns
The Fantastic in The Argosy: 1930
The Fantastic in The Argosy began long before 1930. Science Fiction appeared as early as November 16, 1889 with The Conquest of the Moon in Read More
The Strangest Northerns: A Ticket Outside
“A Ticket Outside” by Robert Ormond Case (1895-1964) is a strange Northern in a slightly different way than the usual. It is not a tale Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Oog Lives Again!
“Oog Lives Again!” originally appeared in Marvel’s Tales of Suspense #27 (March 1962). It was written by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and drawn by Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Terror at the Poles
The typical Northern is a tale of the Gold Rush of 1898 or the lumber camps of the 1910s or even the story of prairie Read More
Link: The Terror of the Sea Caves: An Adventure in Publishing
Jan Laurvik stumbles upon a knife fight in the streets of Singapore. An Englishman and his Lascar mate have taken the worst of it in Read More
Link: November Joe: Canada’s Sherlock Holmes
The Northern was Canada’s one true contribution to genre literature. The majority of Northerns are tales of fur trappers or gold miners: strong men and Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Fawcett Style
Fawcett Comics was the big rival for DC back in the 1940s. Science Fiction writers like Manly Wade Wellman and Alfred Bester penned the craziest Read More
Doc Savage: The Northerns
Doc Savage novels have the advantage of having a toe in many different genres. This means the story never has to stop in one place. Read More