Galeria de Personajes Fantásticos
Pin-ups (or mere filler) aren’t unique to Sword & Sorcery’s most famous magazine, Marvel’s Savage Sword of Conan. That black&white publication offered multiple portfolios and Read More
Tag: Marvel Comics
The Avenger Part 3 – Ron Goulart and Jack Kirby
If you missed the last one… The 1970s saw a renewed interest in the Pulps of long gone decades. Much of this was driven by Read More
The Visual History of the Banth
Clinton Peetteeimmortalized the image of the hero astride the back of a lion caught in a titanic struggle. That was for the cover of All-Story Read More
The Definition of Sword & Sorcery
I don’t waste much time on defining Sword & Sorcery but it seems to be a thing again on the Internet. Men like Lin Carter Read More
Siegfried and the Dragon
Whether you call him Siegfried (in the German The Nibelungenlied) or Sigurd (the Völsunga saga, and the Poetic Edda), it doesn’t really matter. He fights 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
Edgar Allan Poe Comics in the Golden Age
If you missed the last one… Edgar Allan Poe brings good news and bad ones for the Horror comic fan. On the plus side, he Read More
Monsters of the Hyborian Age 14: Devil of the Outer Darkness
If you missed the last one… Conan fought several flying monsters in his career, though we have only looked at the Winged Ape previously here. Read More
Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters IV
If you missed the last one… The Bronze Age has the benefit of all the collective plant monsters of the Golden and Silver Ages before Read More
John Dickson Carr Radio Shows in Comics
The Mystery writer, John Dickson Carr, wrote several episodes of Suspense for Radio back in the early 1940s. (For a complete list of links go Read More