Link: Call of Cthulhu: The Old Box Set
I’m looking at my old Call of Cthulhu box set from 1982, the one with the Gene Day artwork, the cracked corners and bindings all Read More
The Covers That Time Forgot!
When you are an avid Burroughian like myself, it is very hard to find images you haven’t seen countless times. You goggle at the Frazettas, Read More
Link: The End of a Beautiful Friendship: Creators’ Rights
The fight over creators’ rights seems like ancient lore these days, but for those of us who remember Destroyer Duck and all the fuss that Read More
Link: The Battle of Five Armies: Of Orcs and Epics
As I sat watching the last of The Hobbit trilogy of films I realized something. We take so much for granted in the 21st Century. Read More
Link: Lois Lane, Jungle Girl
The early days of superheroes were pretty simple. You created a weird character and you threw villains at him. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman; they just Read More
Link: Lena Thorul, Jungle Princess
The 1960s get a lot of press for being a time of civil unrest, counter culture, and music. Another thing it was, was a time Read More
Wan Tengri in Conan the Barbarian
Flame Winds was a Sword & Sorcery novel written by Norvell W. Page back in the Pulp days of John W. Campbell. It appeared in Read More
Robots Before the Pulps
The robot is an icon of Science Fiction, alongside the spaceship, the alien and the time machine. Of all these familiar themes, the robot is Read More
Munsey Covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs
Growing up in the 1970s, Edgar Rice Burroughs had wonderful artists like Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Roy G. Krenkel to illustrate his paperback covers. Read More
The Illustrators of The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle was famous already. He was the creator of Sherlock Holmes and he could have rested on those laurels (and big bucks) forever. Read More