The Strangest Northerns: Frozen in Fear!
If you missed the last one… The strange Northern often features something from the past frozen in ice to be released on unsuspecting people. The Read More
Tag: Out of the Night
Giant Insects in the Comics: Bees
The idea of gigantic bugs including bees began with H. G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods (Pearson’s Magazine, December 1903-June 1904). Wells applied it Read More
Cavemen & Dinosaurs in Anthology Comics
In 1952, Frank Frazetta drew the first issue of Thun’Da King of the Congo, showing the right way to do comics about lost worlds. The Read More
The Vampires of ACG – Part 4 (1953-1954)
If you missed the last one… Our last batch of vampires from ACG. As before, most of the writers are not known, except for Richard Read More
The Vampires of ACG – Part 3 (1952-1953)
If you missed the last one… This time around we will see several predatory vamps, both male and female, but we also get some more Read More
The Vampires of ACG – Part 2 (1951-1952)
If you missed the last one…(and you might want to go back because I added three stories to the last one…) As we saw last Read More
Phantom Hounds in Comics
The Phantom Hounds howl in comics! Arthur Conan Doyle left us with a dual heritage from his work and life. He created Mystery’s finest false Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 5 (1953-1954)
If you missed Part Four ACG’s three horror main titles provide the last hooray of lycanthropic tales. Nothing really new here except a couple of Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 4 (1952-1953)
If you missed Part 3 The rest of 1952 and into 1953 saw werewolves in all the ACG horror titles. Again traditional ideas and some Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 2 (1951-1952)
If you miss Part One… By the second half of 1951 Adventures Into the Unknown was hitting its lycanthropic stride with were-creatures in five issues Read More