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
Category: Frank Frazetta
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
John W. Jakes – Part 1: The Pulp Years
John William Jakes made publishing history in 1974 with the Kent Family Chronicles. He created a whole new publishing category. What he had done that Read More
Kenton of Star Patrol
If you missed the last one… “Kenton of Star Patrol” was a Space Opera comic created by John B. Michel and possibly continued by Gardner Read More
Stalker #4 (December 1975-January 1976)
If you missed the last one… Well, we are finally going to see Stalker get his wish…an in-person confrontation with Dgrth. Sadly, it will be Read More