Farewell to the King
As I’ve mentioned many times, I didn’t read Marvel much as a kid. I came in late on the Fourth World, shortly before DC pulled the plug on New Gods and Forever …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Tarzan (and other people) at the Earth’s Core! The rest of the Pellucidar series
Long before DC or Marvel, Edgar Rice Burroughs built a shared universe. First we have the narrator of so many of his framing sequences, the Edgar Rice Burroughs who’s related …
For the world is hollow, and I have touched a dinosaur: Pellucidar
Long after scientists and geographers figured out the Earth was round, they still hadn’t figured out what was inside it. As Walter Kafton-Minkel discusses in his Subterranean Worlds, some theorists imagined …
A pretty picture of summer fun
The heat here in NC is harsh enough (or I’m too old) that I don’t find lying around outdoors to be much fun these days. However I can still appreciate …
Dying is easy. Research is hard
When I was working on my first movie book, Cyborgs, Santa Claus and Satan (covering made for TV science fiction, fantasy and horror films), I discovered that giving a full accounting …
Some comic-book images from 1970
The backup to Man-Bat’s second appearance, the Robin story “My Place in the Sun” (Mike Friedrich, Gil Kane) isn’t particularly memorable. It is interesting, though, that much as Stan Lee …
All this and World War I
I read a lot of books. Since I started my blog back in 2009 (jeez!) I’ve blogged about a lot of books. It occurred to me that I could add …