The Casebook of Lucius Leffing (1973)
Joseph Payne Brennan (1918-1990) created The Casebook of Lucius Leffing in a spirit of another age. Which is fitting, since Leffing himself suffers from the Read More
Category: Occult Detectives
The Case of Professor Zoff
The popularity of Dr. Occult and later Dr. Thirteen made occult detective characters another “must have” feature of early comics, along with the jungle lord Read More
Neils Orson the Ghost Hunter
The 1930’s was the last great period of Spiritualism in Britain and America. Houdini and other defrauders were busy debunking the phonies and relegating the Read More
Lin Carter & His Pastiches
On Facebook somebody said why doesn’t somebody do a list of all the authors that inspired Lin Carter’s many pastiches? Well kids, let’s give it Read More
The Curse of Jules de Grandin: Pierre d’Artois
The Curse of Jules de Grandin haunted one man: E. Hoffman Price (1898-1988) and his creation, Pierre d”Artois. The success of a character in a Read More
Weird Westerns and Lee Winters
The creation of the new sub-genre of Weird Westerns is not a recent thing. The first Western is considered to be Owen Wister’s The Virginian Read More
Doc Savage: The Illustrations!
The colorful covers of Doc Savage Magazine are well known with their Pulp action and sinister mystery. The interior art is less so. These images Read More
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde’s Strange Adventure
A Century of Hyde The duality of the human spirit has been one of literature’s greatest themes since the time of the Greek myths. Man Read More
Favorite Frankenstein Covers 1945-2015
If you subscribe to this blog, you will have received a crappy version of this piece. My Yoast Plugin ate it before it went out Read More
The Doc Savage Black & White Magazine
Marvel Comics pursued a line of black & white magazines in the early 1970s. The idea, no doubt, came from the success of the Warren Read More