The Strangest Northerns: Fawcett Style II
“Mary Marvel’s Rescue at the North Pole” (Mary Marvel #5, September 1946) saw two brothers work together on this strange tale of the North Pole. Read More
Tag: Otto Binder
Link: Adam Link: The Autobiography of a Mechanical Man
Sympathetic robot characters were not the norm in the 1930s. Robots were either the tools of mad scientists or out-of-control monsters. Isaac Asimov’s fame as 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
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
The Author With a Thousand Heads: Round-Robins
Doc Savage had an adventure called The Thousand Headed Man in 1934. The Thousand Headed Man guards a lost city in the jungle. This piece Read More
Post-Apocalyptic Heroes: Samson and Hercules
Selling a comic based on straight mythology is a tough go. Wonder Woman is an Amazon but the myths are all in the background. Same Read More
Edmond Hamilton Comics: 1940s
Edmond Hamilton was a comic book writer in the 1940s to 1960s. He wasn’t alone. Julius Schwartz, Mort Weisinger, Otto Binder, Alfred Bester, Henry Kuttner, Read More