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1 min read 2021-11-25 19:15:16

Agatha Christie – Pulp Writer!

Artist Unknown Agatha Christie- Pulp writer! Dame Agatha started her career writing short stories for magazines. Many of these stories were reprinted

1 min read 2021-11-23 19:10:15

Art by John Coleman Burroughs “The City of the Mummies” in Llana of Gathol (1948) proves it was not a novel so much as a series of stories

1 min read 2021-11-21 18:19:59

If you missed the last one… The production continues in 1944-1945. Henry and Catherine write the core stories of the Baldy series in 1945. Another

1 min read 2021-11-19 19:11:31

Art by Frank R. Paul Dr. John Dale was a two story ghostbreaker from Weird Tales. The author was the unlikely Edmond Hamilton, who had made his

1 min read 2021-11-17 19:21:58

Art by Wil Eisner Amazona the Mighty Woman was a one-shot character from Planet Comics #3 (March 1940). From her name you’d expect a jungle girl

1 min read 2021-11-16 06:45:32

Buster Crabbe as Buck Rogers People often forget where things begin. Take Buck Rogers for instance. If you asked anyone about Buck you’d probably

1 min read 2021-11-13 18:40:54

The plant monsters of David H. Keller appeared in his early career in the 1920-30s though a few were published in the 1940s. The idea of a killer

1 min read 2021-11-11 19:41:15

If you missed Part 1… When we left Brak he was in a prison cell and had been visited by Ariane, the daughter of Hell. Two unseen cellmates

1 min read 2021-11-09 19:39:00

“The Unspeakable Shrine” was a two-parter in the B&W magazine, Savage Tales. The Brak the Barbarian adventure appeared in issues #7-8

1 min read 2021-11-07 19:16:20

Art by Bob Montana “Danny in Wonderland” was a Fantasy comic strip that appeared in Pep Comics #12 to #39 (February 1941-May 1943). It was

1 min read 2021-11-05 18:32:26

Art by Kurt Caesar Beowulf comics are a natural. The idea of a hero who faces off against weird enemies is the comic book’s very essence. The 6th

1 min read 2021-11-03 17:51:23

If you missed the first part… The Ice Giant Saga began with The Phantom Stranger and Dr. Terence Thirteen looking into mysterious activity in the

1 min read 2021-11-01 19:14:09

Art by Neal Adams The Ice Giant Saga was not DC’s first outing to the frozen North. Strange Northerns have been a part of DC’s history from the

1 min read 2021-10-30 20:10:49

I found a Sword & Sorcery Comics Mystery to solve. It started when I was re-reading the first issue of Claw the Unconquered (May-June 1975).

1 min read 2021-10-28 21:38:13

The adventures of Kardios, the last inhabitant of Atlantis, are a late Sword & Sorcery series. I say late because as editor, Andrew J Offutt