If you have read, or want to read, my review of the Savage Sword of Conan #1 , I point out the changing of the guard at Marvel in the early ...

With novels, novelettes, and short stories spanning from 1928 to 1997 (not to mention movies, TV, comics, and radio), The Saint is one of...

In the late 1930s, an enigmatic author named “Russell Gray” began churning out ultra-violent and repulsive horror stories for pulp magazine...

Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp teamed together to author “The Castle of Terror”, a short story starring Robert E. Howard's Conan ....

There are many different names given to the Gor series of sword and planet adventures. Some refer to it as The Chronicles of Counter-Earth...

Journeyman author Jack Laflin wrote four books in the Gregory Hiller spy series - plus a prequel explaining how a Soviet spy named Piotr ...

Warren Publishing experienced success with one of their flagship comic magazines, Creepy . The black and white magazine escaped the Comic Co...

Robert E. Howard's 16th century Puritan hero Solomon Kane made his first appearance in the August, 1928 issue of Weird Tales . The stor...

Robert E. Howard scholars typically cite “The Tower of the Elephant” as the best representation of Conan the Cimmerian literature. The sto...

Lancer released The Enforcer in 1973. It was the debut of a series that lasted four volumes with the publishing group before Manor purcha...

The men's action-adventure genre of the 1980s was a license to print money capitalizing on Cold War hysteria. Pop-culture was consiste...

If you ever find yourself burning out on the sullen anti-heroes of 1970's-80's paperbacks, and getting tired of the coldness, th...

By the late 1960s, successful crime-noir novelist  Gil Brewer was battling many personal demons. His bouts with alcoholism and severe dep...

Michael Stradford served as the VP of A&R for Quincy Jones' Qwest Records, represented Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in both crea...

There's an interesting backstory behind the vintage paperback Dragon's Fists . It was published in 1974 by Award Books, a subsidiary...