Plant Monsters of the Silver Age
Plant Monsters of the Silver Age grew in a different soil than their predecessors. Plant monsters in comics begin as far back as 1940 with Read More
Tag: The House of Mystery
One-Shot Occult Detectives
One-shot occult detectives are more common than you know. The early comics all had to have one. After Siegel & Shuster created Dr. Occult, they Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Icy Sea!
“Death and the Icy Sea!” is a short shock to fill out an issue of a 1950s comic book. This strange Northern makes me think Read More
More Sword & Sorcery at DC Comics II
Last time I offered some more Sword & Sorcery stories in The House of Mystery. This time it is the sister comic, The House of Read More
The Return of the Wendigo
In Strangest Northerns we looked at the stories of Algernon Blackwood, George Allan England and August Derleth around the Wendigo legend. Northerns like Jane and Read More
Dark Shadows!
Horror comic covers can be quite explicit but the best often suggest rather than show the terror. One of the best techniques for this is Read More
The Strangest Northerns Ever: DC Style
Tales of the haunted north appeared across DC’s horror line. Here’s a sample of the best of them. The earliest Northern was actually from December Read More
A Gallery of Comic Book Werewolfery
Today I published an article on the literary roots of werewolves. It didn’t include any comic books, so here to make up for that are Read More