howard chaykin

4 min read 2022-12-20 19:00:51

Too Dead to Die

Collaboration is a hell of a thing. Despite the pointless artist vs. writer wars that break out periodically on social media, some of the best

5 min read 2022-10-30 11:00:00

The fourth volume of The Tomb of Dracula Essential is different from the three which had preceded it. All of the Bronze Age Tomb of Dracula comics

11 min read 2022-03-30 11:00:00

I think it can be safely said that no company produced better war comics than DC during the Silver and Bronze Ages of comics. Charlton certainly held

31 min read 2022-03-02 19:00:40

BAM! WOW! COMIC BOOKS AREN’T JUST FOR KIDS ANYMORE Fifty—sixty, even seventy—years ago, this headline screamed across the tops of newspaper

1 min read 2022-02-17 19:00:00

cover art for Dynamite's "The Fire of Creation"

7 min read 2022-01-22 12:00:00

The first time I encountered John Carter of Mars was in the pages of DC's comic adaptation by Marv Wolfman and Murphy Anderson. This series was

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).

5 min read 2021-04-12 18:20:49

Art by Gil Kane and Tom Palmer Chane of the Golden Hair was a character written and drawn by Gil Kane. He appeared three times in the back pages of

4 min read 2021-03-19 19:29:21

Last time we looked at the Winged Ape, the eldritch monster who Conan, Belit and her crew of pirates faced off against. That evil being knew terrible

9 min read 2021-03-07 03:59:30

Over the years, DC Comics (mostly while still operating under the name National) would occasionally buy out the rights to characters and titles from

7 min read 2021-01-08 21:22:12

Art by John Romita, Joe Sinnott, Rich Buckler, Bill Everett, Gil Kane and Mike Esposito “Tales of Atlantis” was a five part back-up feature in

7 min read 2021-01-01 02:41:24

I’ve written here before of the short-lived Atlas Comics line of titles that appeared for a brief year in 1975 before vanishing without a ripple.

4 min read 2020-11-20 20:23:25

Sword & Sorcery comics at DC Comics was a slow process. Marvel had struck gold with Conan the Barbarian in October 1970 but their main competitor

9 min read 2020-11-05 21:03:10

In preparation for this weekend’s next session of the Dark Worlds Quarterly Sword & Sorcery Round Table, I am looking over my favorite comics,

5 min read 2020-10-19 00:43:30

As with the first three issues of the Marvel STAR WARS comic book, my younger brother Ken picked up the 3-Bag containing issues #4-6, the back half