In 1962 Marvel’s creative giants Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought the world The Incredible Hulk a story owing much to Lee’s love of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and as Ben Grimm’s orange monstrous form in Lee and Kirby’s Fantastic Four comic was so…
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The Cave Girl: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Men of great deeds and action who, with noble purposes at heart, let none stand in their way as their mighty physiques carve a path to victory; this best describes your standard Edgar Rice Burroughs protagonist and is what really sets The Cave Girl apart from most of Burroughs’s books as the hero of this…
The Rider: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Rider is one of the shortest of Edgar Rice Burroughs works but it’s also one of the most entertaining. Written in 1915 and published as a serial for All-Story Weekly as H.R.H the Rider this story is a madcap adventure tale of mistaken and assumed identities with the fate of two countries hanging in…
Child of Glass (1978) – Review
Not all ghosts are hell-bent on dragging poor mortals to their deaths, some just want to find peace after roaming the spectral plain for ages, and it is this is the kind of ghost that we find in Disney’s Child of Glass, a made-for-television movie based on the book “The Ghost Belonged to Me” by…
The Outlaw of Torn: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
One of only two historical fictions written by Edgar Rice Burroughs the story of The Outlaw of Torn was first published in 1927 as a five-part serial for New Story Magazine. Though the story may be fictional it is set amongst the true events of 13th Century England where King Henry III was greatly abusing…