Johnny Peril, Occult Adventurer
Howard Purcell (1918-1981) created Johnny Peril almost by accident. “Just a Story” was a strip that had no real continuing character until Johnny stumbled along. Read More
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Top Ten Sword & Sorcery Comic Stories of the 1970s
In preparation for this weekend’s next session of the Dark Worlds Quarterly Sword & Sorcery Round Table, I am looking over my favorite comics, games Read More
The Many Mirrors of Tuzun Thune
“The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune” first appeared in Weird Tales in September 1929. It received an illustration by Hugh Rankin. (Rankin signed it DOAK because Read More
Top Ten Favorite Robert E. Howard Monsters
My top ten favorite Robert E. Howard monsters appear here chronologically because I can’t bring myself to pick a number one favorite. It was hard Read More
Wonder Woman/Conan: Sword & Sorcery Superheroes
Wonder Woman and Conan teamed up as Sword & Sorcery Superheroes a few year ago back in 2017. The rivalry that existed between Marvel and Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Neal Adams (1941-2022)
Adams is one of a core of pros who promoted S&S comics in their infancy along with Frank Frazetta and Wally Wood. Oddly though he 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
First Images of Tarzan: Pre-1918
Hollywood has had an influence on our images of Tarzan since 1918. Only Clinton Peetee Jr. had no images from previous sources to influence him Read More
Four Color H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells seems like a natural for comic book adaptation. He inspired so many Science Fiction ideas and the comics use all of them Read More
Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?
Giant snakes, poisonous serpents, reptiles of the slithering variety, all grace the covers of the comics. Two big sources are Tarzan and Conan covers. If Read More