John W. Jakes – Part 1: The Pulp Years
John William Jakes made publishing history in 1974 with the Kent Family Chronicles. He created a whole new publishing category. What he had done that Read More
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Look Into the Haunted Mirror
Look into the haunted mirror and what do you see? Here are ten different visions from the Golden Age of comics. Of course, the concept Read More
Stalker #4 (December 1975-January 1976)
If you missed the last one… Well, we are finally going to see Stalker get his wish…an in-person confrontation with Dgrth. Sadly, it will be Read More
Stalker #3 (October-November 1975)
If you missed the last one… The third installment takes Stalker to the Burning Isle, which is kind of like Iceland but without the tourism. Read More
Stalker #2 (August-September 1975)
If you missed the last one… Two months later Stalker was back for his first adventure after the origin story. Levitz/Ditko/Wood could stretch their artistic Read More
Stalker #1 (June-July 1975)
After Thongor in Creatures on the Loose #22-29, I started to think about Sword & Sorcery comics I liked that didn’t last even nine issues. Read More
Harry Harrison… Beware!
Harry Harrison… Beware! Not of Harry Harrison’s writing because that’s excellent. Beware he drew horror strips for more than just EC Comics. While he and Read More
Nick Cuti and Sword & Sorcery
Nicola Cuti (1944-2020) was born in Brooklyn. He was an airman in the military before working with Ralph Bakshi at the Krantz Animation Studio. He Read More
Second-Hand Sword & Sorcery: Avalon’s Barbarians
Reprints of 1970s material in the 1990s gave us second-hand Sword & Sorcery. Avalon Communications, a Canadian company, published two issues of Barbarians in 1998. Read More
Gardner F. Fox’s Crom the Barbarian
Gardner F. Fox’s Crom the Barbarian is special. I have avoided it for a while because I really wanted to do it properly. I want Read More