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
Category: Monsters
Giant Ants of the Pulps
Precursors Giant Ants of the Pulps seems like a no-brainer, right? Of course the Pulps were crawling with mad scientists creating giant bugs, or ones Read More
Quasi-Sword & Sorcery Comic – November 1952
Worlds of Fear #7 (November 1952) was a pretty standard horror comic from Fawcett. This particular issue featured a story called “Journey to Chaos” that Read More
Ghosts For Christmas
Ghosts For Christmas! The Harmsworth Magazine and its competitor,The Pall Mall Magazine gave The Strand a run for their money in the ghost department. Their Read More
Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Slime Monsters!
Golden Age slime monsters in the comics take their inspiration from the very first story to appear in Weird Tales (March 1923). “Ooze” by Anthony Read More
Giant Spiders in Heroic Fantasy Comics
Giant spiders in Heroic Fantasy comics have been a mainstay since 1950. Inspired by Fantasy and Pulp fiction before it, the trend starts with Lord Read More
Science Fiction in The Skipper
Science Fiction was only one of many genres found in The Skipper. The Boys’ Paper from England featured the usual line-up of cowboys, detectives, military Read More
Christmas Ghosts: Occult Detectives
Christmas Ghosts and Occult detectives are a part of both the Horror and Mystery genres. The reason for this was in the early days of Read More
Llana of Gathol Part 3 The Yellow Men of Mars
The Yellow Men of Mars “The Yellow Men of Mars” (Amazing Stories, August 1941) takes us back to aerial warfare on Mars. The three wanderers Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Dr. John Dale
This post begins: Dr. John Dale was a two story ghostbreaker from Weird Tales. The author was the unlikely Edmond Hamilton, who had made his Read More