At one time, Curtis Magazines was Marvel Comics' distributor and an affiliated company. Under this imprint, Marvel launched a number of ...

It’s 1985ish and I’m a young adolescent walking around our local K-Mart department store with my $5 allowance for the week. I’m typically sc...

In 2003, Dark Horse Comics launched their first Conan title after acquiring the rights to the character. Prior to the Dark Horse debut, Con...

John Tomerlin (1930-2014) was a screenwriter and novelist — mostly in the science-fiction genre — who authored a Fawcett Gold Medal heist ...

Those of you familiar with our goth reviews will recognize the name William Ross , a Canadian author that wrote hundreds of novels in the ge...

According to his bio, William E. Vance (1911-1986) taught creative writing and worked for the Federal Aviation Administration in Utah. The a...

The Edge series by George Gilman ( Terry Harknett , 1936-2019) promises to be “The Most Violent Westerns in Print,” but the fourth installm...

Washington State native Clayton Fox (1920-2008) wrote for the pulp   Westerns  and then transitioned into paperback original novels. He even...

Earl Drake , the successful action hero created by Dan J. Marlowe (1917-1986) began his literary life as a violent crook in 1962. Over time...

Patrick A. Davis is a U.S. Air Force veteran and former commercial airline pilot who began writing military-based conspiracy thrillers in 19...

Jack M. Bickham (1930-1997) wrote predominantly westerns during his career while also teaching writing at the University of Oklahoma. Hangm...

According to his obituary in The Washington Post, author Franklin M. Davis Jr. (1918-1981) served with U.S. armored forces in Europe during ...

In the 1960s, Lawrence Block wrote many, many sleazy sex paperbacks under a variety of pseudonyms. Most were pretty mediocre, but some wer...

Henry “Harry” Patterson (1929-2022) became a household name using the pseudonym of Jack Higgins . The British author was prolific from 1959 ...

Joan Aiken (1924-2994) was the daughter of poet Conrad Aiken and the sister of author Jane Aiken Hodge. After working for the United Nations...

The Chip Harrison series by Lawrence Block is a very interesting anomaly in his career. The first two books are first-person adolescent ...