The Savage Land: A Pulp Heritage
The Savage Land from the Ka-Zar comics has an obvious Pulp heritage. Or is it all that obvious? Who was the first person to place Read More
Tag: Jack Kirby
Superheroes Go Sword & Sorcery
Superheroes go Sword & Sorcery is not quite the same thing as Sword & Sorcery Superheroes. I would point to the piece I did on Read More
Tales of Asgard: Sword & Sorcery Superheroes
Tales of Asgard offered Sword & Sorcery fans a way to enjoy superheroes. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby appropriated the entire Norse mythology to bring Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Oog Lives Again!
“Oog Lives Again!” originally appeared in Marvel’s Tales of Suspense #27 (March 1962). It was written by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and drawn by Read More
Plant Monsters of the Silver Age
Plant Monsters of the Silver Age grew in a different soil than their predecessors. Plant monsters in comics begin as far back as 1940 with Read More
Giants of Science Fiction
Giants of Science Fiction can mean either the greats who wrote SF, or as in this case, the giants that appear in Science Fiction tales. 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
Jack Kirby’s Kamandi Kritters
Planet of the Apes gave us more than just the immortal Charleton Heston screaming “Get your hands off me, you damn dirty apes!” and “Damn Read More
Dark Worlds Quarterly 4 is here!
The fourth issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! It has been a very long and hard winter and we’ve been doing some much needed Read More
Dark Worlds Quarterly 4 is coming soon!
We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus since our last issue, Winter 2018. It has been a very long and hard winter and we’ve Read More