Conan in Black & White 5: Various One-Shots
The Conan in Black & White series has been single artists up to now. Men like Nino, Alcatena, Kayanan and Mayerik can hold their own Read More
Category: Frank Frazetta
Sword & Sorcery in Star-Studded Comics
Sword & Sorcery was not the original theme in Star-Studded Comics. It was superheroes. The early issues of this fan-published comic published by the Texas Read More
The Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe
If you missed the last one… The amazing adventures of Buster Crabbe did not begin in the comics but in the movie serials. Larry “Buster” Read More
Gorillas and Apes in Weird Tales
Gorillas and Apes in Weird Tales seems like a common occurrence but in 279 issues it only happened a handful to times. That handful gave Read More
Gods of the North
“The Gods of the North” originally appeared in The Fantasy Fan, March 1934, a fanzine published by Charles Hornig. The story was rejected by Farnsworth Read More
The Birth of the Savage Land
Pulp Beginnings The Savage Land from the Ka-zar comics had an unusual birth in Marvel Comics. It all begins with the Pulps. Bob Byrd wrote Read More
The Purpose of Fantasy
Back to 1981 The purpose of Fantasy never struck me as much of a question until I read Charles Platt’s “The Curse of the Hobbit” Read More
Douglas Beekman’s Brak
Douglas Beekman’s Brak the Barbarian appeared in sixteen illustrations for Dell’s The Fortunes of Brak (1980) by John Jakes. This volume followed the Pocket Books Read More
The Adventures of Kardios
The adventures of Kardios, the last inhabitant of Atlantis, are a late Sword & Sorcery series. I say late because as editor, Andrew J Offutt Read More
John W. Jakes – Part 3: Bestselling Author
If you missed Part 2…. John Jakes finished the 1960s writing television tie-ins along with other paperbacks. The first collections of Brak appeared alongside his Read More