Fan Fury: If You Cut Me, Do I Not Bleed in Four Colors?
I have been spending the last three months on research – that essentially means taking apart scans of Pulps so that I can aggregate the Read More
Category: Dark Worlds Quarterly
Hugo Gernsback’s Interplanetary Contest of 1931-1932
Note: All the artwork in this article was created by the legendary Frank R. Paul. Hugo Gernsback was a clever business man, even if he Read More
Guardians of the Ancient: Chapel Hill Reunion
Sometimes fans can get so heated up by a favorite story sequence or saga that they start to see examples everywhere. For me it was Read More
Tarzan: King of the Ring
The idea of Tarzan (or some other jungle lord) taking on the heavy weight champion of the world in a round of fisticuffs is a Read More
The Gods of East & West
In a previous article I showed how “The Tomb of Sarah” was the inspiration for one of Seabury Quinn’s Jules de Grandin stories. Quinn wrote Read More
Jack Kirby’s Kamandi Kritters
Planet of the Apes gave us more than just the immortal Charleton Heston screaming “Get your hands off me, you damn dirty apes!” and “Damn Read More
The Strange Moon Saga of Edgar Rice Burroughs by D. K. Latta
American writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was a prolific creator of pulp and adventure stories. Burroughs wrote — as he himself would admit — for the Read More
Vampirella: Character or Commodity?
Created as a “tacky bit of titillation”, can Vampirella become more than merely a “sexy vampire”? Poor Vampirella. You look at her and you think Read More
Rear Windows: Hollywood and Cornell Woolrich
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun II: The Book Collector by G. W. Thomas. This sister volume to Read More
The ‘Barely-There’ Costumes of Logan’s Run
by Jack Mackenzie In the year before Star Wars, a Science Fiction film made a scene with its costumes – or lack thereof! Science Fiction Read More