Lovecraft in Black & White
Lovecraft in Black & white is a no-brainer. The Gothic appeal of the Cthulhu Mythos is best served by uncolored penwork. The late Silver Age Read More
Category: Comic Books
More Horror Classics in Black & White
After the Edgar Allan Poe Post, I wanted to do More Horror Classics in Black & White. Warren and Skywald obliged nicely. Poe wasn’t the Read More
Flash Gordon: The Golden, Silver and Bronze Age Comics
Flash Gordon, the comic strip, began on January 7, 1934. Intended as competition for Buck Rogers, it is still running to this day. Alex Raymond Read More
Edgar Allan Poe in Black & White
Edgar Allan Poe in Black & White comics is a tale of two rival publishers. Warren and Skywald, both used the public domain stories of Read More
Classic Monsters in Comics: The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (1897) was one of his genre-establishing books along with The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau and 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
The History of Fantasy – Homeric Comics
Homeric Comics are a thing. Really. Amazing Mystery Funnies #20 (May 1940) presented this one-page filler: The unknown author really wants to make the point 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
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
The Man With the X-Ray Eyes
In an earlier post I suggested that Edmond Hamilton’s “The Man Who Saw Everything” was the source for the 1963 movie, The Man With the Read More