Many creators often have several characters they have created, but usually have one that overshadows all the rest. This is true for many, including Robert E...
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Robert E. Howard (1906-36) is best known for Conan the Barbarian, but he wrote about many more characters. Probably his second most well-known character is...
In the world of sword-and-sorcery fiction, one of the best-known series is Fritz Leiber‘s (1910-92) Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Leiber, along with...
A recent acquisition I obtained is The Chillingly Weird Art of Matt Fox by Roger Hill. Published in hardback by TwoMorrows Publishing, it came out recently and...
Kull the Conqueror. King Kull. Kull of Atlantis. Whatever you call him, Kull was Robert E. Howard‘s first sword-and-sorcery hero, years before Conan the...
Most everyone knows of Marvel Comics, publishers of Spider-Man, Captain America, X-Men, Iron Man, and all the rest. But few know of the man behind Marvel (and...
In 1989, a graphic novel from Marvel — The Dreamwalker — came and went with little fanfare, which is too bad, because it’s pretty good. It has, for me...
In 1988, Marvel put out something unusual. While DC Comics was doing its modern take on The Shadow following Howard Chaykin‘s miniseries, Marvel put out...
In the 1970s, Marvel Comics got the rights to do a Doc Savage comic. They actually wound up doing two different series. From 1972-74, Marvel did a color comic...
Comic-book creator Howard Chaykin has been involved with several pulp and pulp-inspired comics during his career. Most pulp fans are familiar with his take on...