Mangani, the Language of the Jungle
Literary types may act proud over the slang in Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange or the linguistic hybrids of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake but fanboys and girls Read More
Category: Jungle Adventure
The Sentient Trees of Science Fiction
The idea of sentient trees in Science Fiction had become one of the genre’s silly old cliches by the 1960s. John Wyndham’s The Day of Read More
Plant Monsters in the Comics II
If you missed the first crop… The comics grew out of the Pulps like a bud on a branch….plant metaphor enough for you? Still, it Read More
Link: How To Get Your Name on a Magazine
Magazines have been around for over 350 years. The first general interest magazine in English was The Gentleman’s Magazine, beginning in 1731. Magazines with people’s Read More
Alex Nino’s Korak, Son of Tarzan
April-May 1974 something strange happened. DC’s Tarzan went from 36 pages to 100 pages! Issues #230 to 235 ballooned to giant issues of Edgar Rice Read More
The Monsters of the Space Legion
Jack Williamson wrote The Legion of Space for F. Orlin Tremaine’s Astounding Stories, April-August 1934. In that novel a group of brave Earthmen face off Read More
Link: Lance Hale, or It’s Hard to Become a Jungle Lord
Lance Hale (originally by John Hampton) begins his career in Silver Streak Comics #2 (January 1940). In the jungle, the tall redhead is captured by Read More
Link: Turok, Son of Plants
Looking at all the comic books that have used plant monsters, one title stands far above the others for monstrous plants. Now to be clear, Read More
Sheena of the Jumbo: Zolne Rowich
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle deserves the crown as Jungle Queen. Beating Wonder Woman by a month, she was the first comic to feature a Read More
Link: The Hundred Year Test
Can you name one sports record from 1917? Football, baseball, hockey, anything? And to make it harder, a record that stands to this day? I Read More