The Magic Glasses
Last time we looked at Robert Bloch’s “The Cheaters”, which featured a pair of glasses that only saw the truth in people’s minds. Bloch’s idea Read More
Tag: Harvey Comics
I Can’t Believe It’s More Plant Monsters!
If you missed the last one… It gets harder to talk about plant monsters in comics because there have been literally hundreds of them. My Read More
Giant Insects in the Comics: Bees
The idea of gigantic bugs including bees began with H. G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods (Pearson’s Magazine, December 1903-June 1904). Wells applied it Read More
Fantastic Ferdy
Prize Comics published a children’s comic called Wonderland Comics from Summer 1945 to April-May 1947. Of the nine issues, eight of them contained the tales 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
Space Pirates in the Silver Age
If you missed the last one …. The Golden Age, that time of poor art but wide open rules, gave way to the Silver Age Read More
Jimminy and the Magic Book
DC Comics had a portal Fantasy comic in the tradition of “Fantasy Isle”, “Dicky in the Magic Forest”, “Danny in Wonderland”, “Sir Butch”, “Jimmy Jupiter” Read More
Four Color Dragons
The dragon of Western culture was a chimera of parts with the body of a crocodile, the wings of a bat and the neck and Read More
Even More Plant Monsters in Comics!
If you missed the last one… Even more Plant Monsters in comics offers you thirteen more vegetative horror tales from the 1930s to the 1970s. Read More
Caverns of the Damned!
Caverns of the Damned! Caves of the Doomed! Nothing good ever happens in a cave. Odysseus found a one-eyed giant in his. Ali Baba’s was Read More