Til the Last Hemlock Dies

Almost from the beginning of The Amazing Spider-Man, Steve Ditko had a talent and the intuition for creating unique villains for his hero to...

Looking back over my STRANGE TALES collection, I have to backtrack on the statement about the Dr. Strange covers. Ditko did finally get sole...

Marvel Comics and Stan Lee have always done a good job of perpetuating the myth that Lee created the original Marvel Universe. Those of us w...

I love this comic. Not for the cover story, but for the backup tale. By this point in the title, Lee and Goodman had relegated the monster s...

Carole and I watched the recent Jack Black film, BERNIE tonight. We both enjoyed the film and I recommend it.

In late 1959 and early 1960, at least a year before Jack Kirby talked Lee into allowing Kirby to create a new line of superhero titles for M...

Over at my other blog, Zombie Horrors , I've been posting one-question interviews with authors of zombie and paranoid fantasy apocalypti...

After Steve Ditko left Marvel for points elsewhere, it is obvious to anyone who has observed his career and his work that he was going to do...

Yesterday while going through my shelves of books, I stumbled upon a volume that I had thought was lost to me. Years ago, when I used to giv...

Just when you thought that the world of self-published books couldn't get any slimier or more disgusting, you read this . And on a lig...

One of the greatest of John Stanley's creations was the humor comic book MELVIN MONSTER. I don't know if Dell Comics called upon Sta...

In 1971 a comic book appeared from the fading publisher Gold Key. O.G. WHIZ, created, written, and illustrated by John Stanley was the swan...

Early in my career I tried to write a Lovecraftian short story that was so over-the-top grammatically that it would be laughable. (I want...

Here's an interesting book from my collection. For a while, after superheroes became the obvious way to go at Marvel (thanks to Jack Kir...

I'm not a fan of guns, to put it mildly. Having been caught in cross-fire on my job, I have negative opinions of the things. When my f...

Fairly early on in the game Martin Goodman and Stan Lee realized that they could make a heapin' helpin' of extra cash by reprinting ...

Carole and I went to my friend Andy Kunkle's birthday party last week. It was a lot of fun, of course. I got to see Andy and finally mee...

Here's a story I sold many years ago. Since I sold it, this one earned a decent amount in royalties. A surprising amount. I think the ...