Link: Skull the Slayer: Polemic or Pulp?
1975 saw two things happen almost simultaneously. Marv Wolfman came to Marvel comics and he created Skull the Slayer. Who? Yes, Skull was not the Read More
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Link: DC Flirts With Sword & Sorcery – Horror Anthologies
Nightmaster failed to become DC’s first sword-and-sorcery title, but DC kept trying in the horror magazines. “The Eyes of the Basilisk” (The House of Mystery Read More
Wan Tengri in Conan the Barbarian
Flame Winds was a Sword & Sorcery novel written by Norvell W. Page back in the Pulp days of John W. Campbell. It appeared in Read More
Edmond Hamilton Comics: 1951
1951 saw Edmond Hamilton splitting his time between Pulps and comics. It was the year he finished the Captain Future stories though his comic counter Read More
Post-Apocalyptic Heroes: Samson and Hercules
Selling a comic based on straight mythology is a tough go. Wonder Woman is an Amazon but the myths are all in the background. Same Read More
Early Marvel Mythos
In 2008, Marvel did Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft with adaptations of the Old Gentleman from Providence. But this wasn’t Marvel’s first go at the Mythos. Read More
O Green Man: The Visual History of the Thark – Part 2
In our first installment we looked at the birth of the thark and the magazine, book hardcover images as well as the first comics. Our Read More