Some Odd Bronze Age Sword & Sorcery Comics III
If you missed the last one… I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I always let out a girlish cry of delight when I stumble Read More
Tag: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Top Ten Sword & Sorcery Fight Scenes by Ray Harryhausen
Heroic Fantasy needs two things: Monsters and a good fight scene. Imagine Conan winning in a story by political debate. Or the Witcher settling a Read More
Cavemen (No Dinosaurs!)
In past posts I was largely interested in Cavemen & Dinosaurs (my phrase for the fantastic prehistoric, as best represented by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pellucidar Read More
Lords (And Ladies) of the Dino-Jungle
Stories about people finding dinosaurs hiding in strange places go back to Victorian times. As our knowledge of prehistoric life grew, so did our fantasies Read More
Slave Ships From Space
If you missed the last one… The Science Fiction Pulps loved the idea of space slavery. Space pirates and other villains could steal your ship Read More
Moon Maids
Exploration and adventures on our Moon have been around for a while but there is a special place for beautiful women who come from that Read More
Lost Cities of the Golden Age
In the last post I focused on the lost cities in the fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs and his Tarzan novels. I have another one Read More
The Lost Cities of Tarzan
The Lost Cities of Tarzan range far and wide across the world. The original novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs are filled with lost lands and Read More
Exiles of the Dawn World
Nelson S. Bond’s “Exiles of the Dawn World” (Action Stories, December 1940) was a Cavemen & Dinosaurs spectacular published by Fiction House. Combining the two Read More
Sword & Sorcery at Manor Books
Manor Books was the bottom of the barrel in the late 1970s. Ballantine, ACE, later DAW were the prime markets for Sword & Sorcery in Read More