Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Three: Clark Ashton Smith, The Great Thing
I saw something that bothered me the other day. A professional writer whom I admire said something to the effect that Clark Ashton Smith was Read More
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The Genuine Article: Detective Comics
Comics based on famous detective characters are not uncommon. Sherlock Holmes alone has dozens in many languages. But what is rarer, and the focus of Read More
SF Pulp Authors in Boys’ Life
Boys’ Life is the magazine of the Boy Scouts of America. It began publishing in March 1911 and is still going to this day. The Read More
Link: Chris KL-99: Space Adventurer
Edmond Hamilton has many claims to fame in a science fiction writing career that spanned fifty years. He began in the pages of Weird Tales, contributing the Read More
Manly Wade Wellman Part 1 (1927-1940)
In the later years of Manly Wade Wellman’s career, his success became largely associated with his horror writing, first from Weird Tales and later in Read More
Early Heroic Fantasy Comics 1937-1948
Comics in the 1930s and 40s skirted heroic fantasy, their characters usually tied to fairy tales and garbled history more than Pulp literature. The biggest Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Ziff-Davis Style
Ziff-Davis published two issues of Explorer Joe in the Winter 1952 and October-November 1952. The comic followed Joe into different parts of the world on Read More
Link: Sword & Sorcery Cliche No. 2: Barbarian Bikinis
I believe the movie was Spartacus (1960) with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis. In an early scene, the trainer of the gladiators is showing the Read More
Early Sword & Sorcery Comics: Malu the Slave Girl
Howard Larsen is best remembered for EC Comics’ Crime Patrol though he drew for Wild Bill Hickock, Jungle Comics and others. For two short issues Read More
The Science Fiction of Donald Duck
It can be fun to read comics that were written and drawn before you were even born. Take Dell Comics for instance. Began as a Read More