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
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More Cavemen & Dinosaurs
In my last post, I talked about Nelson S. Bond’s “Exiles of the Dawn World” (Action Stories, December 1940) and how it used cavemen & Read More
Sword & Sorcery in Odd Places 1: Coven 13
Sword & Sorcery can show up in some odd places. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised when I find heroic fantasy in the pages of Read More
One Million Years BC – The Comics!
Hal Roach produced One Million Years B.C. in 1940. The film starred Victor Mature as Tumak, Carole Landis as Loana and Lon Chaney Jr. as Read More
The Underwater City in the Silver Age
If you missed the last one… The Underwater City in the Silver Age took on the domed city look most often. DC Comics don’t dominate Read More
More Horror Classics in Black & White
After the Edgar Allan Poe Post, I wanted to do More Horror Classics in Black & White. Warren and Skywald obliged nicely. Poe wasn’t the Read More
Flash Gordon: The Golden, Silver and Bronze Age Comics
Flash Gordon, the comic strip, began on January 7, 1934. Intended as competition for Buck Rogers, it is still running to this day. Alex Raymond Read More
Edgar Allan Poe in Black & White
Edgar Allan Poe in Black & White comics is a tale of two rival publishers. Warren and Skywald, both used the public domain stories of Read More
Heroic Fantasy Movie Comics
Previously I outlined the major Heroic Fantasy movies and shows that Sword & Sorcery fans could have watched in their youths. Many of those films Read More
The Big Five in the Comics
The Big Five The Big Five of the Storytellers were all authors of adventure fiction but they were also writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy or Read More