DC Comics Versus Pulps Covers
DC Comics spawned some long-running anthology comics in the 1950s including House of Mystery in Horror and Strange Adventures in Science Fiction. The editors of Read More
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American Heroic Fantasy Graphic Novels
The term “Graphic Novel’ was coined in November 1964 by Richard Kyle in the pages of the fanzine, Alpha-Cappa. It started to get more traction Read More
Gulliver’s Covers
Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift is a classic that is rarely appreciated beyond its adventure roots. Swift’s satire pokes fun at politics, science, technology, Read More
Jungle Jimmy Olsen
The first Tarzan film, starring Elmo Lincoln, was 1918, a silent movie. By 1956, Gordon Scott had replaced Johnny Weissmuller and Lex Barker. The average Read More
Sword & Sorcery Goes North
Sword & Sorcery comics, especially long-running ones like Conan the Barbarian, will eventually take their cast to the frozen North. When they do it is Read More
Michael Kaluta’s Monsters and Machines
Michael W. Kaluta is famous for his horror covers in the 1970s, his Fantasy art both in and out of comics, for The Shadow, and Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Berni Wrightson (1948-2017)
Berni was one of the early comic book artists who produced pre-Conan the Barbarian work and helped to develop an audience for Sword & Sorcery Read More
Link: Gothic Gotham
In 1764, a bored English peer, no longer active in politics, builder of a fairy tale castle in the middle of Twickenham, came up with Read More
Alex Nino’s Korak, Son of Tarzan
April-May 1974 something strange happened. DC’s Tarzan went from 36 pages to 100 pages! Issues #230 to 235 ballooned to giant issues of Edgar Rice Read More
Hugh Davidson, Sci-Fi Pseudonym
This post begins: Edmond Hamilton created the “Hugh Davidson” pseudonym for “Vampire Village” (Weird Tales, November 1932). I’m not sure why since he has no Read More