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
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Sherlock Holmes: The Reluctant Ghostbreaker
When one speaks of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, visions of foggy London streets, hansom cabs, the Diogenes Club and the dim-witted bobbies from Scotland Read More
O Green Man: The Visual History of the Thark – Part 2
In our first installment we looked at the birth of the thark and the magazine, book hardcover images as well as the first comics. Our Read More
Sword & Sorcery versus Sword & Planet
A swordsman, his arms bearing red wounds, limps across a battlefield covered in bodies. His helmet is gone; his shield is broken. The flag of 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
Marvel Movie Preview #1
As the name suggests, Marvel Movie Preview #1 was the first Marvel magazine of its kind. This one-shot publication adapted Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land Read More
Ray Harryhausen, Sword & Sorcery Filmmaker
If you know Fantasy films at all, you know Ray Harryhausen. As successor to Willis O’Brien, the creator of King Kong, Ray gave us so Read More
It’s Okay…I’m a Doctor!
The non-comic reading world got an introduction to mystical superheroes with Doctor Strange (2016) starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Now part of the Infinity War movies, little Read More
Jungle Jim
As a Tarzan fan you can’t but help notice all the knock offs and also-rans. Edgar Rice Burroughs created a cottage industry in the jungle. Read More
The Eighth Wonder of the World
This post is brought to you by Monster, Monster 2 and Monster 3 by G. W. Thomas. These collections are filled with posts from Dark Read More