Space Pirates in the Bronze Age: 1970s
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Tag: Don Newton
Frontispieces From Savage Sword of Conan
This post is brought to you by Swords of Fire 3, our latest anthology of Sword & Sorcery novellas. These anthologies sport illustrations for each Read More
Ghost Writers in the Sky!
People don’t write stories about typewriters anymore. Even magical or haunted ones. It’s not surprising. In my collection The Book of the Black Sun I Read More
Snow Beasts! Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch in Comics – Part II
If you missed the last one… The late 1960s and early 1970s was a time of great interest in the Occult and the unexplained. Books Read More
Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters III
If you missed the last one… Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters III takes us from 1976 to 1982. These won’t be the last of Read More
Charlton Werewolves II
If you missed the last one… Back for more hairy werewolves with Charlton Comics, the most under-appreciated of all comic companies. Steve Ditko is back Read More
Space Opera from the Big Four: The Raider of the Spaceways
“The Raider of the Spaceways” is an odd debut in Science Fiction. It wasn’t Henry Kuttner’s first story (his nineteenth) but it was his first Read More
Second-Hand Sword & Sorcery: Avalon’s Barbarians
Reprints of 1970s material in the 1990s gave us second-hand Sword & Sorcery. Avalon Communications, a Canadian company, published two issues of Barbarians in 1998. Read More
More Sword & Sorcery at DC Comics
A while back I wrote about how DC experimented with Sword & Sorcery stories in their Horror comics. Here are eight more I missed. Some Read More
Link: The Sword of Charlton
When you say “sword-and-sorcery comics” you usually think of Roy Thomas and Barry Smith in Conan the Barbarian, back in October 1970. DC tested the Read More