O Hairy Man! The Visual History of the Sagoth – Part 2
If you missed Part 1… This post is brought to you by Strange Adventure, a new collection by G. W. Thomas. It is a companion Read More
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Some Odd Bronze Age Sword & Sorcery Comics III
If you missed the last one… This post is brought to you by Bearshirt #6 Kingdom of the Dead. This sixth book of Arthan the Read More
New Talent Showcase: Heroic Fantasy Edition
DC Comics had a comic book with the expressed purpose of promoting new writers, artists and letterers called New Talent Showcase, later Talent Showcase. It Read More
Monsters of the Hyborian Age 15: The Slug of Larsha
If you missed the last one… “The Hall of the Dead” was an L. Sprague de Camp composition based on a Robert E. Howard outline. Read More
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
Frankenstein’s Monster in Silver Age Comics
If you missed the last one… The Silver Age brought in the Comics’ Code and Horror comics became much tamer. Despite this, a classic like Read More
Conan vs. Werewolves
Conan vs. Werewolves is a problematic title. Conan as Robert E. Howard wrote him never met an actual werewolf. Howard wrote only six pieces that Read More
Bronze Age Dragons: 1980s
If you missed the last one… The 1980s offered some new wrinkles to old dragons. One of these was the new paper quality of independent Read More
The Lost Cities of Conan
In the last post, we looked at the lost cities in the Tarzan novels. Edgar Rice Burroughs was one of Robert E. Howard’s commercial inspirations, Read More
Conan (1967) The Thing in the Crypt
This is the first in a series of posts about the original 196os-1970s Conan paperbacks. I haven’t worried about Howard versus pastichers or any of Read More