The Solomon Kane Adventures of Don Glut
If you missed the last one… Solomon Kane, unlike Conan, Kull or Red Sonja, never had a long-running Marvel series that required different writers to Read More
Tag: The Savage Sword of Conan
Frankenstein’s Monster in Bronze Age Comics: 1975-1986
If you missed the last one…. The rest of the Bronze Age, 1975 to 1986, is a scattered and largely unimpressive collection. The Frankenstein boom Read More
The Definition of Sword & Sorcery
I don’t waste much time on defining Sword & Sorcery but it seems to be a thing again on the Internet. Men like Lin Carter Read More
Siegfried and the Dragon
Whether you call him Siegfried (in the German The Nibelungenlied) or Sigurd (the Völsunga saga, and the Poetic Edda), it doesn’t really matter. He fights Read More
Monsters of the Hyborian Age 13: The Ancient One
If you missed the last one… Pastiche Pals We have now moved away from the creatures originally created by Howard in the 1930s to those Read More
Jeffrey Catherine Jones: Early Sword & Sorcery Comics
Jeffrey Catherine Jones did some early Sword & Sorcery comics before and after the rise of old Conan. Some of these comics aren’t pure S&S Read More
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
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
More Robert E. Howard Pastiches
Conan the Cimmerian was the first Robert E. Howard character to be written about by others. This began when L.Sprague de Camp converted non-Conan tales Read More
The Thongor Comics: Creatures on the Loose #22
Creatures on the Loose #22 (March 1973) was a good example of Marvel Comics experimenting with other Sword & Sorcery characters besides Conan. COTL was Read More