THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 As it happens, the last Ballantine collection of Clark Ashton Smith works I'm reviewing for my blog was also the last one the company p...

 TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR, ERB's fourteen-years-later sequel to the 1915 PELLUCIDAR, is one of the author's better spinoff stories, but i...

I've been a little curious lately as to when comic books began making sustained use of the fantasy-trope that radiation can cause either...

Ever since the jungle-genre in comic books was kicked off (in terms of original material) by 1938's SHEENA, there had been various ...

{Note: the story-title "The Devil of the Congo" appears only on the cover of the magazine.) I continue to visit Fiction House'...

 While scanning through issues of JUMBO COMICS to chart the progress of the character Sheena, I came across a "weird western" feat...

Given how deeply Edgar Rice Burroughs tapped the depths of myth in the jungle-adventures of Tarzan, I might have hoped that I'd come acr...

  SPOILERS (for a novel printed back in 1929, HAH) Within two years in the early nineteen-teens, Edgar Rice Burroughs had authored what most...

In literature the name "Camilla" first appears in Virgil's Aeneid, written between 29 and 19 BC. There's no evidence that ...

 I stated in my review of THE CITY OF SHIFTING SAND that I wasn't especially enamored of the sort of Golden Age comics-story where ...