Frontispieces From Savage Sword of Conan
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Tag: Tony deZuniga
Plant Monsters in Heroic Fantasy Fiction
Heroic Fantasy offers sword-swingers all kinds of monsters to fight: dragons, harpies, ape creatures, just about anything you can imagine. The Sword & Sorcery hero Read More
Bronze Age Dragons: 1980s
If you missed the last one… The 1980s offered some new wrinkles to old dragons. One of these was the new paper quality of independent Read More
Bronze Age Dragons: 1970s
Fire-breathing dragons! You won’t find any T. rexes or giant snakes here. These are Bronze Age Dragons, with wings and fiery breath. (well, mostly.) I Read More
The Inkers of John Buscema’s Savage Sword
In Savage Sword of Conan – The Original Marvel Years Omnibus v01 (2019), Roy Thomas tells how John Buscema did not like Alfred Alcala’s incredible Read More
Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters IV
If you missed the last one… The Bronze Age has the benefit of all the collective plant monsters of the Golden and Silver Ages before 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
Classic Monsters in Comics: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde comics seems like a no-brainer for the Horror comics but actual adaptations are infrequent. And those tend to be reprinted Read More
Plant Monsters in The House of Mystery
Plant Monsters in The House of Mystery follow the tropes found in fiction first: the haunted tree, the biological experiment, weed men and others. DC 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