Robert E. Howard’s James Allison in Comics
Roy Thomas sat in a unique position in the early 1970s. None of the Howard material had been adapted unless you count one very obscure Read More
Category: Fantasy
The Fantastical Fantasy Writer: Geoff St. Reynard
Robert W. Krepps (1919-1980) produced Science Fiction and Fantasy under the more romantic name of “Geoff St. Reynard” for two publishers in particular, Ray A. Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Franken-Style
Today Strangest Northerns gives you thrills Franken-style. The fact that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) ends in the Arctic with Victor chasing his terrible creation over Read More
New Pulp: We Finally Got There
Twenty years ago I made it my mission to write as they did in the old days of Black Mask, Dime Detective and Thrilling Wonder Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Ken Barr (1933-2016)
Ken Barr was a Scottish artist who made his mark as a paperback cover man and with Marvel’s Black & White magazines like Doc Savage, Read More
The Forests of Forever: Thomas Burnett Swann
I can remember when I walked away from Fantasy in the late 1980s. I had read all the good stuff from the Pulp era, the Read More
Henry Kuttner’s Elak of Atlantis
Elak of Atlantis is one of Sword & Sorcery’s great characters that did not receive the 1960s splendor that others got. I attribute this to Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Blackhawk Style
“Aurora, Queen of the Arctic” (Blackhawk #51, February 1951) from Quality Comics, offers a Pulp style Northern with a mysterious siren who draws men into Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Tom Sutton (1937-2002)
Tom Sutton was a vastly under-rated comic book artist, largely due to his disinterest in superheroes. He is probably best remembered for his work in Read More
Lin Carter’s People of the Dragon
When reading Lin Carter you have to ask yourself before beginning: “Which author is he pastiching now?” If there is pure Lin Carter fiction out Read More