Not On Your Nelly! More Plant Monsters!
If you missed the last one… This post is brought to you by Monster and Monster 2 by G. W. Thomas. These two collections are Read More
Tag: Dick AYers
It Can’t Be! More Plant Monsters!
If you missed the last one… As we go on searching for strange and terrible plants, finding more obscure stories that we missed, the selections Read More
I Can’t Believe It’s More Plant Monsters!
If you missed the last one… It gets harder to talk about plant monsters in comics because there have been literally hundreds of them. My Read More
Giant Insects in the Comics: Bees
The idea of gigantic bugs including bees began with H. G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods (Pearson’s Magazine, December 1903-June 1904). Wells applied it Read More
Four Color Dragons
The dragon of Western culture was a chimera of parts with the body of a crocodile, the wings of a bat and the neck and Read More
Snow Beasts! Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch in Comics – Part I
Snow Beasts! They have many names: Yeti, Bigfoot or Sasquatch, depending on where you are. I called them YiBS in a previous post. I mentioned Read More
Next Stop: The Thirteenth Floor
Last year my favorite television episode was “E is For Elevator” on Evil. This segment used the old idea of the “Thirteenth Floor”, a Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Out of the Storm
“Out of the Storm” appeared in Marvel’s Strange Tales #37 (August 1955). The author is not known but the art was done by Dick Ayers. Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Oog Lives Again!
“Oog Lives Again!” originally appeared in Marvel’s Tales of Suspense #27 (March 1962). It was written by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and drawn by Read More