Death…Ten Feet Tall: Conan Vs. The Hulking Beast
Looking at covers for the old Conan the Barbarian comics, I was struck by a few thoughts. First off, a number of covers feature Conan Read More
Category: Comic Books
Artists of Sword & Sorcery : Mike Ploog (1942-)
Mike Ploog is a comic book artist from the 1970s who later turned to the more lucrative designing movie characters and doing story boards. In Read More
Zero Ghost Detective
Ghostly detectives became a standard trope in the comics of the Golden Age. After the creators of Superman created Dr. Occult in 1935, everybody jumped Read More
The Plant Monsters of ACG
ACG pre-Code horror comics did more than just vampires and werewolves (though lots of those). Five comic stories in four years featured killer plant monsters. Read More
Pulp Artist/Comic Artist
Doing research on my favorite Pulp artists at Field Guide to Wild American Artists, I found the end of each biography was almost always “and Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 4 (1952-1953)
If you missed Part 3 The rest of 1952 and into 1953 saw werewolves in all the ACG horror titles. Again traditional ideas and some Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 3 (1952)
If you missed Part 2 The stories for this segment all came from four issues of Adventures Into the Unknown in 1952. The writers, who Read More
King Kull Covers
Conan the Barbarian will always be Robert E. Howard’s top dog but there are those of us who enjoy Kull just as much. (In Robert Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 2 (1951-1952)
If you miss Part One… By the second half of 1951 Adventures Into the Unknown was hitting its lycanthropic stride with were-creatures in five issues Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Vincente Alcazar (1944-)
Spanish-born artist, he found work in America thanks to Gray Morrow and Neal Adams who recommended him to publishers. Much of his work was in Read More