Quintessential Lost Race/World Library
Quintessential Lost Race/World Library is a no-brainer after our two previous libraries.If you missed them, go Ghost Stories Fantasy. The Lost Race (or Lost World) Read More
Tag: Pellucidar
The Birth of the Savage Land
Pulp Beginnings The Savage Land from the Ka-zar comics had an unusual birth in Marvel Comics. It all begins with the Pulps. Bob Byrd wrote Read More
Lost Worlds of the Pulps
The lost worlds of the Pulps began almost immediately after a certain book. The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle, oddly, signaled the end Read More
The Flying Death and The Giant Claw
The Flying Death and The Giant Claw share a common source, Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958). Adams was famous as a muckraker and newspaperman. He was Read More
Repta the Jungle Girl
Repta the Jungle Girl is from “The Beautiful Beast” in The House of Mystery #185 (March-April 1970). The fact that she appeared in a horror Read More
The Beasts of Pellucidar: Comic Book Style
The beasts of Pellucidar first came to me comic book style. The reason for this was I was lucky to be reading the books for Read More
Edgar Rice Conan Verne in Seven Pages
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and maybe just a dash of H. Rider Haggard, and all in seven pages. Ace Magazines published Read More
Top Ten Favorite Edgar Rice Burroughs Monsters
My top ten monsters from Edgar Rice Burroughs don’t come from Tarzan. The vine-swinger had some great adventures but for the most part the most Read More
Lin Carter & His Pastiches
On Facebook somebody said why doesn’t somebody do a list of all the authors that inspired Lin Carter’s many pastiches? Well kids, let’s give it Read More
Dinosaurs in the Pulps
Dinosaurs belong to the Pulps. If you’re like me you grew up with dinosaurs. Any show, any cartoon, any comic, any book with a dino Read More