The Strangest Science Fiction Titles
Science Fiction has an advantage when it comes to titles. You can make them as crazy as you like and editors probably won’t complain. Despite Read More
Category: Dark Worlds Quarterly
The Golden Age of the Dragon: B&W Illos
Last time we looked at the Golden Age of the dragon in color. The black & white illustrations that filled the regular pages offer many Read More
The Golden Age of the Dragon: Color Plates
The Golden Age of the Dragon saddles the Victorian and Edwardian ages. Artists like Arthur Rackham, Frank C. Pape, Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, Maxfield Parrish Read More
The Monsters of the Hyborian Age 4: Thog the Slithering Shadow
In case you missed the last monster…. Thog the Slithering Shadow is without doubt the most Lovecraftian of all Robert E. Howard’s monsters. Formless, tentacled, Read More
J. Irving Crump’s Og, Son of Fire
Crump of Boys’ Life James Irving Crump (1887-1979) was the long-standing editor of Boys’ Life, the magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. The magazine Read More
John Carter and the Robots of Mars
If you missed the last one… John Carter and the Robots of Mars. Every heard of it? Edgar Rice Burroughs never wrote it but someone Read More
The Flying Death and The Giant Claw
The Flying Death and The Giant Claw share a common source, Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958). Adams was famous as a muckraker and newspaperman. He was Read More
Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed VII
If you missed last time’s selections… Once again, my picks from old magazines that you may have been missed. There really are quite a few Read More
The Ghost of Venus by Bob Butts
If you missed the last one… “The Ghost of Venus” by Bob Butts appeared as the four-part text feature for Novelty’s Target Comics #11-14 (December Read More
The Menace of the Machine Men: A Robot Tradition
“The Menace of the Machine Men” was a Superman comic story that is part of a robot tradition. Edmond Hamilton made the transition from Pulps Read More