Edmond Hamilton Comics: 1950
1950 saw Edmond Hamilton settle into his regular schedule of writing comics. Each month he would produce several scripts for different DC titles, jumping from Read More
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Thongor of Lemuria
Uninformed critics have written off the Thongor novels as a bad Conan the Barbarian copy. This really isn’t true. Thongor the character is very much Read More
Dr. Styx – First Mythos Comic?
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun by G. W. Thomas, a mandala of Cthulhu Mythos fiction featuring a Read More
Early Marvel Mythos
In 2008, Marvel did Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft with adaptations of the Old Gentleman from Providence. But this wasn’t Marvel’s first go at the Mythos. Read More
Tarzan and the Wizard Out of Time
The Brown Watson 1977 Tarzan Annual featured reprints of comics by Russ Manning but it is wrapped in a long story that I am calling Read More
Edmond Hamilton Comics: 1940s
Edmond Hamilton was a comic book writer in the 1940s to 1960s. He wasn’t alone. Julius Schwartz, Mort Weisinger, Otto Binder, Alfred Bester, Henry Kuttner, Read More
The Strangest Northerns Ever: DC Style
Tales of the haunted north appeared across DC’s horror line. Here’s a sample of the best of them. The earliest Northern was actually from December Read More
The Strangest Northerns Ever: Marvel Style
Tales of the north as a sub-genre date back to the Franklin Expedition, then the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Northerns in Marvel Comics, those Read More
Donald F. Glut: The Doctor Spektor Interview
Donald F. Glut began his comic writing career in the late1960s with the Warren horror comics. This was good training, for he would pen some Read More
Sword & Sorcery Favorites You Might Have Missed
After you’ve read the Howard Conans a hundred times, and the Michael Moorcocks are wearing thin, you might start to think Sword & Sorcery has Read More