Tarzan and the Wizard Out of Time
The Brown Watson 1977 Tarzan Annual featured reprints of comics by Russ Manning but it is wrapped in a long story that I am calling Read More
Category: Jungle Adventure
The Jungle Books – The Great Illustrators
WALT Disney never did Rudyard Kipling any favors. As children grow up these days they are inundated with Disney Plus and any hope that they Read More
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Eternal Lion
Frank Frazetta was the perfect artist to capture the danger and majesty of Burroughs’ lion creatures. An author can become identified with certain motifs. This Read More
The Plant Monsters of Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton was one of the great originators of Science Fiction. What he did not create himself, he used in new ways. He gave us Read More
The Terror of the Totem Poles
The First Nations of the Pacific Coast and Alaska are known for their beautiful art and their spiritual totem poles. For my sister, Sheila and Read More
Welcome to the Terror Garden – Plant Monsters by the Bushel
They are older than Man, older than the animals of Earth. They never sleep. But they are always watching. And waiting. In a war that Read More
A Cowboy, A Space Captain, a Private Detective and a Barbarian Walk Into a Bar…
That could be the beginnings of a really lame joke, but it’s something more. All four of these characters, these separate genre icons, share something Read More
British Apemen of the Boys’ Papers
The Jungle Lord is a cultural construct, like the Western gun-fighter, the Northern Mountie, the Noir private detective or the African adventurer. All these motifs Read More
The Adventures of Allan Quatermain
The tales of Allan Quatermain were standard reading for youngsters in the years before World War II. By 1975, when I was twelve and the Read More
Why I Read & Write Pulp
I’ve been spending a lot of time amongst the Pulps lately. And it begs the question: what is the appeal of these old, flaking, brown Read More