The Strangest Northerns: Ghost Gallery Style
“The Ghost Gallery” was a successful comic strip that ran in Jumbo Comics from issue #42 (August 1942) to #167 (March 1953). In a 125 Read More
Category: Adventure
The Strangest Northerns: Frank Aubrey Style
Frank Aubrey (1847-1927) is a 19th Century writer who deserves to be better remembered. He’s the guy who gave the worlds of Fantasy the killer Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Charlton Style III
More Northerns Charlton style! The Mysterious Traveler is the host of “the Desert” (The Mysterious Traveler #4, August 1957) The story was reprinted in Haunted Read More
Doc Savage Comics: The Polar Treasure
We listed the Doc Savage Northerns in another piece but we didn’t really get to look at comic books. Doc Savage Comics #3 (February 1941) Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Charlton Style II
“The Heart of Dibji” is a latter day Northern for Charlton. Long after “Deep Freeze” in 1953, Charlton’s Haunted #2 (November 1971) offers us this Read More
Detour: The Sword & Sorcery of Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman has connections to Sword & Sorcery. Like Hawkman, she uses weapons that scream sword fights and monsters. Also like Hawkman, it depends on Read More
The Lost Worlds of Doc Savage
Lost Worlds are a sub-genre of adventure story made popular by H. Rider Haggard in 1885 with King Solomon’s Mines. (Granted he borrowed from Jules Read More
More Sword & Sorcery at DC Comics
A while back I wrote about how DC experimented with Sword & Sorcery stories in their Horror comics. Here are eight more I missed. Some Read More
H. P. Lovecraft’s The Mound, At Last….
A Story With a History “The Mound” by Zelia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft is one of the last Lovecraft Mythos stories to see print. Read More
First Images of Tarzan: Pre-1918
Hollywood has had an influence on our images of Tarzan since 1918. Only Clinton Peetee Jr. had no images from previous sources to influence him Read More