Bronze Age Dragons: 1970s
Fire-breathing dragons! You won’t find any T. rexes or giant snakes here. These are Bronze Age Dragons, with wings and fiery breath. (well, mostly.) I Read More
Category: Sword & Sorcery
The Dark Worlds Podcast: Oliver Brackenbury
M. D. Jackson and G. W. Thomas talk with Oliver Brackenbury about Sword & Sorcery, fundraising, New Edge Sword & Sorcery and other topics like Read More
The Lost Cities of Conan
In the last post, we looked at the lost cities in the Tarzan novels. Edgar Rice Burroughs was one of Robert E. Howard’s commercial inspirations, Read More
LINK: What Is the Single Best Sword & Sorcery Anthology?
A reader, who I will call Utahjim, asked me a great question the other day. He had been reading L. Sprague de Camp’s The Spell Read More
Conan (1967) The Thing in the Crypt
This is the first in a series of posts about the original 196os-1970s Conan paperbacks. I haven’t worried about Howard versus pastichers or any of Read More
The Inkers of John Buscema’s Savage Sword
In Savage Sword of Conan – The Original Marvel Years Omnibus v01 (2019), Roy Thomas tells how John Buscema did not like Alfred Alcala’s incredible Read More
Galeria de Personajes Fantásticos
Pin-ups (or mere filler) aren’t unique to Sword & Sorcery’s most famous magazine, Marvel’s Savage Sword of Conan. That black&white publication offered multiple portfolios and Read More
The Evolution of the Monster Story
The Monster Story has changed. As with all genres and sub-genres this happens over time. But the more they change, the more they stay the Read More
The Arabian Knight
Treasure Comics from Prize Comics offered a heroic fantasy series with “The Arabian Knight”. The character’s name is a play on the source material for Read More
Sword & Sorcery at Manor Books
Manor Books was the bottom of the barrel in the late 1970s. Ballantine, ACE, later DAW were the prime markets for Sword & Sorcery in Read More