Sword & Sorcery Comics Go to the Movies
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Pterodactyls of the Bronze Age
If you missed the last one… This post is brought to you by Bearshirt #2: The Hidden World by G. W. Thomas. The second Arthan Read More
Tales of the Hyborian Age: Don Glut
If you missed the last one… This post is brought to you by Swords of Fire 3, the third in our collections of Sword & 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
Monsters Unleashed – Hidden Sword & Sorcery
Monsters Unleashed, the black-and-white magazine from Marvel was a trove of hidden Sword & Sorcery. The original goal of the 1973 publications Dracula Lives, Monster Read More
The Lost World in Comics I
In a previous post I wrote about a seven page story, “Creatures of Fantasy”, that jammed Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs Read More
Giant Spiders in Heroic Fantasy Comics
Giant spiders in Heroic Fantasy comics have been a mainstay since 1950. Inspired by Fantasy and Pulp fiction before it, the trend starts with Lord Read More
The Dark Mirror of Klarn – Part 1
The Dark Mirror of Klarn proves the smallest seeds can become a forest. Doug Moench would create a vast fantasy world (one largely under-used by Read More
Undead and Unleashed!
Undead and Unleashed! Marvel in the Bronze Age gathered the undead and unliving monsters of Robert E. Howard (and pastichers like L. Sprague de Camp Read More
Andrew J. Offutt’s Conan Trilogy 1: Conan and the Sorcerer
No Stranger to Howard Andrew J. Offutt was no stranger to Robert E. Howard’s work in 1978 when he began his trilogy of Conan novels. Read More