So as far as Jack is concerned I would say that drawing horror comics causes cancer. Were you satisfied with the movie Tales from the Crypt? I thought it was a good movie and I thought it could have been a lot better. I wasn't satisfied, no. You'll see a showing of it today, and probably some of you will see some of the reasons that we thought it could have been better.
But as a movie, as a complete entity, I thought it was a very fine job. These were professional movie makers and they did a great job photographically; the color, sound effects, the acting, the sets were all first rate. I'd like to add to that. I personally got a big kick out of the movie because I saw a lot of the things we had written come to life. I wasn't particularly intrigued with the bridging of the stories, that little gimmick, but this is a problem for a movie maker in terms of tying four separate stories together.
We tied it together with a cover and some staples, but But we were not responsible for that and we had let them have it, so I wouldn't criticize them. What's the story on the Tales of Terror annuals? Where were they distributed and what was the print run on them? Anything about them like that. I heard rumors that they were distributed on just the East Coast, or maybe just the West Coast. That's a good question; a lot of people have wondered about that. We had three kinds of annuals: In each case, what we did was to take four regular ten cent comics, ripped the covers off by hand [laughter]…not by our hands, but literally it was done by hand.
It was not done by machinery, which made it very expensive. A new cover was printed and the four books were bound in this cover and we sold it for a quarter. And we thought, isn't that clever, because we've taken four magazines that would have been thrown away and bound them in a new cover, and we can sell it for a quarter so we make the money and the EC reader gets forty cents worth for a quarter. We did that until we realized that we were losing a couple of thousand dollars every time we did it. The hand removing of covers was just too expensive. We only did it with a relatively small number of copies.
We only got complete returns from the East Coast area. And it's very possible they weren't distributed anywhere but on the East Coast; there weren't enough of them. I would guess there were 25, of each of those seven editions. They were distributed in the Mid-west. I bought one of them.
Oh, then they did get out there. Another interesting aspect is that there were many that were not like others. We would take four science fiction magazines; one annual might have numbers 17, 18, 20, and 21 and another would have 21 through You could get a copy of an annual and have something different in the next copy of the same annual. That ought to be fun for you collectors. How long a brush lasted The latest edition does have all the different kinds of annuals that have been discovered. Like, Tales of Terror 1, maybe there's seven versions, version one has these four magazines, version two has these four [laughs].
The collector is a strange animal and will go to great lengths. Could you tell how the EC comics came to be associated with Ray Bradbury? Yes, that's a very funny story. We were stealing Ray Bradbury stories. I was just writing from Bill's plots. That's true; I was stealing Ray Bradbury stories. And one day I stole two at the same time, and we put them together and made a better story out of them than either of them had been alone, we thought, and as a matter of fact Bradbury agreed. He wrote me a letter and said, "You have inadvertently omitted my royalty on these wonderful adaptations.
I just wanted to congratulate you on doing stories on race and religion. You were the first comics to do that. Yes, I think in these days that's called 'relevance. Where did you get the ideas for them? And what was the reaction? Being socially conscious is not relegated only to today's times.
We came out of World War II, and we all had great hopes for the marvellous world of tomorrow. And when we started writing our comics, I guess one of the things that was in the back of our minds was to do a little proselytizing in terms of social conscience. So Bill and I would try to include, mainly in our science fiction, but I think we did it in the horror books too, what we called "preachy" stories - our own term for a story that had some sort of a plea to improve our social standards. As far as the reaction was concerned, we never had any problems with them, and they were well received. And they did what we wanted them to do.
I hear you had trouble with the government, with your story "Judgment Day". No, that wasn't a government problem. The problem was when we resubmitted "Judgment Day" when we were associated with the Comics Code to see whether we could get it past. I think we had another story turned down and we zinged them with this one. We wanted them to give us a good reason why they were turning it down, but they were smart enough not to. It was a straight plea for racial tolerance, orange and blue robots, and the only objection I understand they had was that they wanted us to remove the sweat from the Negro's temples and forehead in the last panel, which we refused to do.
We never had any government interference at all with anything we have ever published, just for the record. Not to disappoint any anarchists among you. I'm sorry, that happens to be the facts. Of course, our dossiers are about this thick. One time we were bothered by the Secret Service when it was discovered that a three dollar bill we had published was given change in a Texas airport. There was one other thing.
We had a visit from the FBI when we published a game called "Draft Dodger," and it said that when you reach the final square, you send your name to J. Edgar Hoover, may he rest in peace, and he would send you an authorized bona fide Draft Dodger card.
And these two stalwart, blond, handsome out-of-the-comic book type men came and said, "We're from the FBI. Please do not do this anymore, because Mr. Hoover doesn't like to receive this type of material. I would like to ask Mrs. This is Johnny's sister. How did you meet the deadlines with all the color separations?
No, Bill and Al had very good deadlines, so I never really had to do anything that fast. Marie, tell the truth. How did you get those overnight 32 page books colored? My brother helped me. I used to give you Dexedrine pills [laughs]. I was on a diet in those days, as I always am, and as a result I was taking Dexedrine and the side effect of Dexedrine is to keep you awake. So Marie, when she really got in a hole, would borrow a Dexedrine. Davis, this is directed to you because you handled the Crypt Keeper stories. Getting back to the movie, what is your opinion of the Ralph Richardson version without makeup?
I missed every showing of the movie. I picture the Crypt Keeper a certain way, and from the pictures I've seen I'm a little disappointed. Of course, that really wasn't the Crypt Keeper. That was kind of something We insisted that they have a Crypt Keeper. It was originally going to be the Devil; at least we talked them out of that. Davis, how did you feel about drawing all that gruesome horror? And I enjoyed doing the horror bit and they liked it, and so I kept at it. But when I looked back on it after things began to get very ticklish with the Code and everything, I began to ask - am I doing something constructive or good.
I still, I don't know, I don't think it's really that bad. You have to understand Jack comes from another era, and another kind of background. Jack was, and still is, a very moral, religious person. He came up here from Georgia Jack has always had some misgivings about it, and I respect his misgivings. Jack has been more comfortable with other types of material than horror. There was a lot of talent down there, and it was great to be associated with them. It was one big team and I enjoyed it. I'd like to make an observation on what Jack referred to. I think we all went through it, everyone associated with the EC organization, and I think Bill, too, would have to admit it.
When we were doing the stuff we were enjoying it, because we knew we were having fun with a tongue-in-cheek type of entertainment. When Senator Kefauver started the crime investigations, the "experts," in quotes, gave all kinds of supportive testimony how terrible we were, and what we were doing to the youth of America. We became intimidated, and I'm sure that we all did some soul-searching. In retrospect now, with all of you young people looking at this stuff and saying how great it was, we've come full circle.
But the interesting thing is that at that time we were intimidated, and that's a frightening thing to happen and a frightening thing that it could have happened. And let's all hope that it never happens again. Well, there were two things we were doing. First of all, we intentionally set out to do comic books that would make money. That was the first thing. Secondly, in terms of the horror, and I think you have to take each of them separately, we intended to put out horror comics that would be scary and entertaining. Bill and I talked about it when I first became associated with him, and we decided we were going to put out something like that in comics.
So we set out to do it, and we did the best we could. We never underestimated our audience and we always wrote to our level. If we thought the comics were being read by very young children, we were not particularly concerned with writing to their level. You have to remember that this was an era when television was at its infancy, and the visual media was either motion pictures or comics. Television, of course, has supplanted the comics. So we were writing in a visual medium and we did the best we could with the level we felt we could reach.
We were writing for teenagers and young adults; we were writing for the guys that were reading it in the Army. We were writing for ourselves at our age level, and I think perhaps that was responsible for the level we reached. Of course, as we accumulated a fine staff of artists, they started competing among themselves, not in any nasty way, but each one of them was so inspired by what the others were doing that they started doing better work.
If two artists would be delivering their jobs to the EC offices at the same moment, what you would have is two guys fainting over the other's work. If Davis and Wood got there together This still goes on at the Mad office, but in those days it was kind of unique.
It was part of the general pride of being part of a group. I think everyone ended up drawing for the other nine guys. Because everyone wanted to bring in something that was so good that it would make the other nine artists faint. They all kept doing this for five years. All three of your horror titles underwent either a title or a format change after three issues.
Were you considering dropping horror at that time? Well, let's go back. The first horror book was The Crypt of Terror, and after three issues we changed it to Tales from the Crypt. As I recall, the reason we changed it was because we had immediately run into wholesaler problems, and we saw that if we took "Terror" out of the title it would alleviate the situation. We were in the process of changing The Vault of Horror to something when all of a sudden The Crypt of Terror, the last one, started selling.
But Tales from the Crypt turned out to be a very wonderful title; it never was outsold by The Vault of Horror anyway. As some of you might know, when we decided to add a fourth horror book we called it The Crypt of Terror. And just before the first issue was published we decided to drop horror. So we knocked off the title, and the last issue of Tales from the Crypt had a black and white masthead which was stuck on at the last minute where the original color Crypt of Terror masthead had been.
So if you read the inside of the last issue of Tales from the Crypt, it says that it's the fourth horror book, called The Crypt of Terror. Do you think you could, and would you want to, do the whole mess over again? You mean starting now? If I were 25 again, yes. I would enjoy doing it over again, maybe doing it differently. I think the level today would have to be even higher than it was in those days. I think the unfortunate thing is that it can't be done. The saddest thing that has happened to the comic book as an art form is the Code.
I think it relegated the comic book to a substandard level and it's still strapping and inhibiting it. So whether I want to do it over or not, we couldn't do it today. How about a magazine format? It's constantly under consideration, but thus far we have felt that it wasn't feasible. If you tried to publish a standard four color horror comic today it wouldn't get through the Code, and if you tried to do it without the Code in normal format the wholesalers would kick it back at you and it wouldn't get on sale.
So one way or another you've got a disaster on your hands. Now you can go the Warren route, which goes out for is it now? I don't know that Warren's books are doing all that well. I don't know how they're doing lately, but I never heard that they're great money makers. Are you saying that we're stuck with the code?
Well at the moment you damn well are. You've been stuck with it for twenty years. But do you see that for the future? Well, the country has been going in a more and more liberal and uninhibited direction, and unless the pendulum starts swinging the other direction which it very well may because historically it always has, perhaps the time will come when you could put out a horror comic for a 14 year old child and no one will care, but I don't think the time is today.
I might point out that as a result of the investigations there are laws on the books in the state of New York that you can't publish a comic with the words "terror" or "horror" or "weird" or a few other things on the cover. I don't think we should mention this outside of this room because they may have forgotten, but there is a law on the books in New York prohibiting crime and horror comics period. But someone's going to have to go to jail to prove it. How about a rating code like the movies have? It's an interesting idea and they should have done that 20 years ago.
I think it's a great idea. There's one thing wrong with that, though, I think, and that is that basically comics are read by children. Although there are a lot of adults who read comics, I don't think there are enough to support a magazine which, may I remind you, must print a quarter of a million copies minimum. Well, each one of us has to answer separately. To me, the EC days were more rewarding. As far as I'm concerned, what I'm doing today with Mad.
And you have to go back to that question of social conscience. I think I'm doing more with Mad in that area than was ever done with the horror comics. I think the horror comics were great entertainment, and I enjoyed doing them as entertainment. I get a kind of a satisfaction out of Mad that goes beyond just the satisfaction of doing something entertaining. I get a kind of moral satisfaction too. That sounds like my conscience, but I enjoy that for what it is.
What were the sales figures like for the horror comics? I'll precede this with something that you must know businesswise. At the time we were publishing, for a variety of reasons, we were with the worst, the weakest and the least well thought of distributor among all the national distributors, which was Leader News. They subsequently went bankrupt and are no longer in existence. The distribution system works like this - I don't want to bore you with this, but it's important - there are maybe six to ten distributors who handle all the magazines. Now they take these magazines and distribute them in turn to some local wholesalers, and these wholesalers in turn distribute the magazines to about , news dealers and stores, who in turn sell it to you.
Now, Leader was one of those ten distributors. And the wholesaler's respect for a distributor was a large factor in how well he would handle a distributor's books. Since we were with the weakest distributor, we got the weakest distribution. Also, because we were with this weak distributor we had to sell our books for a quarter of a cent less than anyone else in the business. Where everyone else was getting five and a quarter cents for a ten cent comic, we were getting only a nickel. Now that quarter of a cent doesn't sound like much, but it's an awful lot.
Sometimes it's the margin between making a profit and having a loss. So with these two facts in mind, our figures were never that high. The most we ever sold of a horror comic I think was about , Now for a comic in those days, that was low. Today it would be tremendous, but those were the days of Superman selling two and three million copies an issue, Crime Does Not Pay selling up to four million copies an issue.
Those were some of the leaders. The most we ever sold was about a half a million. And yet we built our reputation and had our fans despite this very bad distribution set up. There are parts of the country that probably never saw an EC book and probably to this day the people that live there have never heard of them. We just didn't get full national distribution. How successful were the Picto-Fictions?
It was a disaster! After we dropped all our New Trend books and went into the New Direction books, that was a disaster, I mean really a disaster. Then we got out of that and into Picto-Fiction, which was a bigger disaster, but it didn't last as long because we ran out of money. And then we just stopped. I really wonder whether the Picto-Fiction ever got a fair chance, Bill. I mean, we were with the weakest distributor, they were in terrible trouble financially, and we know that they weren't really distributed well. But they were selling like 15 to 20 percent. We don't know whether they were good or they weren't.
We don't know whether they would have done anything if they'd been given the chance. What's the story on Shock Illustrated 3? When Leader News went bankrupt in , I was wiped out and about a hundred grand in the red. But Shock 3 had been printed in an amount of about to , copies.
The insides had been printed and the covers had been printed; all it required was the binding money. I didn't have binding money. I couldn't even raise the few grand to bind it, and they were selling so badly I figured even if I bound it and sent it out we wouldn't sell anyway. So we chopped up and threw away , odd copies of Shock 3, except for one to copies which I had hand bound. I recall ; some people say there were They laid around the office in big piles, and anybody came in and grabbed a few, and they were gone and who gave it a thought.
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I heard that during the fifties the other companies were copying from you. Did you get any ideas from them? I think Al pointed out in the interview we had with The Monster Times that until we were copying them. The EC books were very mediocre down to poor; crime books, westerns, love books That was so exciting I forgot what we were talking about. One thing funny about the love books I'll just throw in; if any of you have them, you might have seen the lovelorn columns.
In Modern Love it was "Advice from Amy. I thought there were a lot of funny things in those books. I can see the panel is going to liven up. But before that, what were we into? You were saying that we decided at one point that we were no longer going to follow, but we were going to go out on our own and let them follow us if we hit it right.
Since we started all the trends of the stuff we've been in. We haven't copied anybody. Who was the first on your staff to do horror stories? He wrote it and he drew it. What about Johnny Craig? Johnny took over "The Vault of Horror" when we made it its own magazine. I did "The Crypt of Terror" until Jack took over. Graham Ingels kind of dropped out of things and disappeared about ten years ago. We didn't even know if he was alive until fairly recently, and we discovered to our delight I forget who discovered it, one of the fanzine-type people dug around and found out that Graham was in Florida.
He doesn't want it known where he is in Florida, and I don't know where he is in Florida. But I'll tell you that I did talk to him twice by telephone. And the way I get in touch with him is, I call an attorney in Florida and the attorney calls Graham and Graham calls me collect. I think he's an undertaker. Actually Graham has kind of dropped out, and if that's the way he wants it, so be it. I'm interested in the matter of personal artistic taste.
I wonder what types of comic stories you each felt most comfortable with. I like to do athletic stuff, sports, the outdoor stuff, cowboys. I'm not an illustrator.
It goes back to the question, which do I like better, the horror or Mad. I think the horror books were more illustrative, and I enjoy doing the funny books, and that's why I enjoy Mad better. The reason I asked is because I know several illustrators who were heavily inspired by your war comics, especially the Civil War. I enjoyed doing that, but I don't think I did it as good as what I do for Mad. You could well wish that you had a penny for every artist that has been inspired by Jack Davis.
I like the funny stuff, 'cause it's less effort, you know. I didn't draw at EC. Coloring wise, I think I had more fun with the science fiction, just because it was science fiction. But in a lot of the horror books you could really go wild with the mood. Also, a nice thing about EC is that they had so many different styles that a book was interesting, not 20 pages of one story.
You would have someone like Wood, who would drive you crazy, absolutely terrible, but it was so rewarding what came out, it was great. If Marie didn't like something she would just paint it dark blue and nobody could ever see it. I really only censored Shock, that was the only one. I want to answer this question from my point of view. I got into the comic book business having never read a comic book.
I found out from a friend at the High School of Music and Art that you could make 30 dollars a page drawing comic books. So I got a job and developed a style of my own which was terrible; well, I thought so. But one thing I did learn after I got into the industry was that there was too much of the same kind of thing going on. This was something I always insisted upon, and that's why when Jack Davis walked into my office - and I didn't know he'd been turned down all over the place, I just heard about it now [laughter] - I said, "That's a great style, and don't change it.
Everybody worked their own style. I never felt anybody should work any differently from what was most comfortable for them. That's where Marie gets her kicks from in terms of saying that every artist did his different style and everything looked different. That's why "Ghastly" Graham Ingels was able to blossom, because his style was such that it lent itself to the horror comics. And I know that he had experience drawing for other people where he had to kind of try to draw what the rest of the field was doing at the time.
How come Marie Severin didn't draw for EC? Marie has always had a cartoony style, or at least she did then, and as you can see from the program book she was a damn good cartoonist. But in those days we weren't really turning out cartoon type books. Mad did come along, but by that time we weren't letting her out of the coloring closet for anything. I'd like to ask each of you separately; which did you prefer, the science fiction or the horror magazines? Of course Al and I always preferred the science fiction. We always said we were proudest of the science fiction, and we still do.
From my own personal point of view of writing, I felt the science fiction allowed me to do a little more creative writing, sometimes at the expense of the space left for the artist to draw in. We developed short fingers because of that. The classic story I like to tell about that is when Al had a balloon that was so big that there was hardly any space left for Graham to draw the Old Witch in. So when Graham brought back the story, there's the Old Witch, holding up the balloon like this.
When you spoke of encouraging the artists, what is your feeling now that they're so well-known and admired? There's something that I've learned. At one period after the horror bit I started walking the streets looking for work, and I was going around to these advertising agencies. And most of the art directors were these young guys who were Mad fans or EC fans and I got a lot of work from those guys, and I appreciated it. Yeah, me too, you know.
But you had to wait for them to grow up to get the jobs. I'll give you another example of this kind of experience. When I took over Mad in we started to do movie satires. I would try to get research stills from the movie companies, and we were blackballed all over the place. The opinion at that time was that you don't make fun of any product. Today we have absolutely no problem. Because all the kids that read Mad then are now handing out publicity for these motion picture companies, and they're very cooperative. But in answer to the question, I have one observation, and it's an observation of sadness.
It's interesting that the EC comics have inspired you young people to take up art, and it's very sad that there's no market in which you can use your talent, if you have it. It is a sad thing that the comic industry has shrunk to the size it has, whether it is due to the competition of television or the limitations of the Code and therefore the limiting of the market. It's too bad that the Warren-type comics aren't doing well. By that I mean well enough that there would be six or eight companies.
Bill, I'm doing a story for the underground press. And it's not bad. It pays better than Charlton. I really feel that the comic book still is an excellent entertainment medium. I think if it were done today without the restrictions, that it could become a big industry again.
I think the restrictions that are on it are what's hurting it as an industry. But aren't the underground comics unrestricted? Yes, but do you know the education that would have to go on all the way up the line through the distributors, the wholesalers and the retailers to get this thing going again? Because the stigma has lasted for 20 years.
But I wish the undergrounds luck, I really do. This strange looking little man over here. Marie, if Bill Gaines starts doing horror comics again, would you be his colorer again? Let's see what happens. I wouldn't mind coloring the horror again. They were a lot of fun. There'd be no horror this time, it'll be sexy.
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For the Grim Reaper had clicked the shutter on a photo fiend - and developed the negative with a homicide double-exposure. Get the Lobster 5 of 5 - Coming in June! The New Pulp Awards - Winners are being announced as the votes are counted! Congratulations to all of the winners. The Voice - New! Game For Five - New! The Sons of Thor - New! The Gunslinger's Companion Fight Card: Laurence Sterne Stevens - New! Brown Meet Repairman Jack - New! A look at the occult detective - New! Pulp prices, then and now - New! Then, evidently rested up enough to take full control the series for a while, Norvell Page and his new editor, Loring Dowst, inaugurated a multipart epic that began with Rule of the Monster Men, in which Nita van Sloan ended up a helpless cripple.
Nothing is forever in the Spider series——not even death and disfigurement——so before long Nita was back on her feet, while Richard Wentworth, who became a hunted man as a result of the events of The Spider and the Slaves of Hell, fought valiantly to clear his name, issue after thriiling issue. During this five-month ordeal, Wayne Rogers largely sat on the sidelines. But he did return for one last story, The Corpse Broker!
Rogers was simultaneously writing the adventures of James Christopher in Operator 5 magazine, as well as sundry Weird Menace stories and the Brother Henry series then running in the back of The Spider. His real name was Archibald Bittner, but he took the pseudonym Wayne Rogers in the early s, after transitioning from being a pulp editor to a full-time fictioneer. In this novel, victims are struck down by the mysterious malady the newspapers dub the Green Death. This is only the beginning of a daring criminal campaign to take over New York City and turn it into the national capital of crime.
Taking on a new identity, Dick Wentworth rises from his secret slum hideout to take on this titanic threat to law and order. Even at the conclusion of this story, all is not resolved. Resolution will take place in our next exciting Spider audiobook, The Spider and in the Eyeless Legion. It was also one of his best.
Listen to it now. The very name conjures up images of exotic locales, wild beasts and hostile natives. Jungle Jim braved these with the aid of his faithful Hindu companion Kolu as he traveled the wilds of southeastern Asia in search of adventure. Jungle Jim is best remembered as the star of sixteen Columbia B-movies starring Johnny Weissmuller, fresh off his twelve-year stint as Tarzan, beginning in But Jungle Jim's history goes back more than a decade. A combination of jungle danger and colonial politics, the show brought listeners tales of slave traders, pirates, foreign spies, wild beasts, poachers, hostile tribes, and, during World War II, the Japanese, as Jim often served as an Allied operative.
Armed with his trusty. Throughout it all, Jungle Jim maintained a cool head. Beginning with Tarzan, the pulp era was full of jungle characters. Jungle Jim is one of the unique ones, in that he wasn't a barely-literate loincloth-clad tree-dwelling wild man, but rather Jim Bradley, a hunter — a "great white hunter" in the mold of heroes of earlier popular fiction such as H. In , Gerald Mohr, who had a long career in radio, film and television, took over the role of Jungle Jim.
In the s, '40s and '50s, Mohr played over parts on the radio, notably Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe. This volume contains forty fifteen-minute episodes from , including the conclusion of "The Afghan Hills" , the complete "The Ghost of the Java Sea" , "Tiger Hunt" and the beginning of "Karnak the Killer" , for ten hours of exciting and intelligent adventure.
Wholesale murder threatened; officialdom threw up its hands in mystified failure! Knox Book 2 In a new type of magazine was born. This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Dime Mystery Magazine, all written by John H. Patrol of the Iron Hand Death walks the world in an iron garb and sleeps in the dismal caves of Hell! Stahlmaske once more roams the Front — and the bodies of the damned lie strewn in his wake! The Master Spy calls on his courage and wits to battle the forces of Hate! The Case of the Hollywood Ghost Death-dealing bullets that come from nowhere — the baffling appearance of Cain-marked footprints — a mysterious fire.
Around a Hollywood murder these startling phenomena weave a supernatural curtain that defies all the powers of the Green Lama.
Martin What mad spirit born of the devil drove slant-eyed Nancy Gannon to dance naked in the moonlight with unholy companions — to laugh with ghoulish glee when men died with horrible suffering? The Irish miners and their wives shuddered and whispered of banshees, little dreaming of greater horrors to come — when hell flamed underground! MacApp, who is best known for his "Gree" series in the 60s, wrote many great short stories that were so pregnant with meaning and plot that many of them were expanded into novels.
This is the first of three anticipated collections of his shorter, original stories and they are introduced by the man who knows all about pulps and the old days of cult publishing, John Pelan. Here are the tales found in this volume: Alex Ross, Dean Motter, Francesco Francavilla, Dennis Calero The search for the secret of the girasol is finally nearing its end, and the trail has led the Shadow from the jungles of Guatemala back home to the concrete canyons of New York City.
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The high flying action-adventure of the Eclipse Comics series comes roaring back to life. Collects the first 16 issues of Airboy including the back-up Skywolf stories starting in issue 9. This double-novel special collector's edition sho wcases the original cover art by Lawrence Toney and interior illustrations by Harry Kirchner, plus historical commentary by Will Murray.
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With an introduction by historian Will Murray. The mighty rivers have become a highway for that unique breed, the Mountain Men, from the Rocky Mountains across the Great Plains, downriver to St. Louis, where they sell their precious pelts. Fleeing the authorities after killing a man, restless greenhorn Ralph Lander departs St.
Louis under cover of night, hoping to join the Bridger trapping expedition going upriver. Looking to redeem himself while pursuing excitement and his fortune, Lander soon discovers there is no flight from the long arm of justice, no sanctuary when surrounded by hostiles after his own hide! With an introduction by Robert J. Randisi Gunsmith, Mountain Jack Pike series.
Cover art by Paul Strayer. This edition is authorized by the Hugh Pendexter Literary Trust. Hugh Pendexter began his career as a newspaper man but soon started selling short humorous tales in Within a few years he moved into historical dramas and Westerns. For the next three decades his work became a mainstay of the legendary magazine, Adventure, chronicling Colonial life or the American frontier. Noted for his dedication to research and historical accuracy, Hugh Pendexter authored more than seventy-five novels of period fiction. Isle of Lost Wings "Five must die!
When the Spinthrift is discovered adrift and abandoned, K. Pike dispatches his top operative, Ben Cowan, to investigate the disappearance of the yacht's millionaire owner and a killer sky-trail beckons from Borneo to Singapore! Flying Freebooters A shadowy plane shoots down Luke Lance over the ancient growth jungles of Malaysia. The Straits Agency, attempting to recover their lost pilot, encounters a group of deadly sky pirates and smugglers that threatens the sovereignty of peaceful nations along an imperiled coast!
Fighting Wings After the son of the Rajah of Baharu is kidnapped, the Straits Agency detectives are called on to locate the youth. In the process Luke Lance unearths the mysterious White Mask and an ancient enemy returned from the past seeking vengeance! Cover art by George Rozen. Its predecessor had pages and close to pulp-cover reproductions.
The new Guide to Pulp Fiction has pages and cover repros, along with a smattering of original cover paintings. Chapters from the old Guide have been extensively reworked. New chapters have been added on Spicy pulps, sports pulps, love pulps, and war-and-aviation pulps. One appendix gives basic information on the best small-press reprint publishers, while the other lists the most important anthologies of pulp stories in various genres. This special offer has its own page on the Murania Press site and is available to those who renew or extend their subscriptions as well.
Visit the Murania Press web site today at the link below. In this second archival volume, featuring stories selected from the original s Fawcett comics, Captain Midnight and his sidekick Ichabod Mudd explore new planets and defend the earth from aliens, including moon creatures, purple pirates, and the bizarre and villainous Xog!
Collects selected stories from issues 48, 50, 56, 60, 62, 64, and Bell is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs—and they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States. As he is grousing a man comes in and announces that he is Athos, the bull-thrower. The manager quips that he throw a lot of bull himself but eventually figures out that Athos isn't passing gas, and he's not fighting bulls like in Spain but wrestles them!
Since he looks like he could do it, the managers agrees to set up a meet and promote it, there being nothing else going on. Haviland, it puts them in line for death, with only one out - to solve the mystery and nab the killer! When he came up against a bank robbery he was suddenly transformed into the hardest kind of hard.
Haunted by the death of his best friend and on the run from a Mexican hit squad, Carlos is forced into hiding with a traveling carnival crawling its way from San Diego to LA. Within this world of freaks and con-men, Carlos has no choice but to become the one thing he hates — a masked luchador wrestler. However, once he has donned the mask, Carlos finds there is much more to being a luchador than fake wrestling moves and cheesy showmanship. There is a mystique and a responsibility carried by those who become true luchadors.
Rise of the Luchador is the next installment of the acclaimed Fight Card series Genesis of the Star Man The saga of the Star Man began in when Byrne, a multilingual engineer and longtime pulpster who had written for Amazing, Imagination, and Other Worlds, was hired to help translate and polish some of the later Ace reprints of the fabled Perry Rodan books. Two years later, when the German rights holder decided to cancel the American license due to declining sales, Byrne was asked by Master Publications to come up with his own endlessly unfolding cosmic adventure of the Perry Rodan type.
The result was a volume science fictional space opera unlike any other. This volume includes the first of three "lost adventures of Nayland Smith". Girasol Collectables - March Pulp Replicas! Girasol Collectables is pleased to announce three more issues in its ongoing series of Pulp Replicas. Terror Tales and Operator 5 are now at six 6 issues per year, so that those two titles and the Spider will be completed around the same time in late Girasol will also be tackling the complete year of Weird Tales over the next 2 or 3 years, as well as other s issues of interest.
Click here for covers of previous months Pulp Replicas. Back issues - Still available! Please note that the cover inset may not be exactly as shown in the image at the right. Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: Epiphany Library at East 23rd Street. It's easy to get to from public transportation as the 6 train stops at 23rd St on Park Avenue and you walk about 2 blocks east. Mark Halegua at msh pulps1st. They will occur on the second Saturdays of each of those months. Now that Captain Future aka Dr. On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide—with fatal results.
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Mara Phillips' rich boyfriend wants her found, but may not be telling the whole story. His is only one of the bodies that will be found in this stunning tale of greed and murder set against the background of NYC's most depraved sex club. This is CJ Henderson's greatest character at his absolute best! This edition comes with the bonus Jack Hagee short "Bop Bop", in which Hagee tracks a murderous bail-jumper in Detroit. In this story, Templar is shown in the process of establishing his reputation as a crime buster working with a team of mysterious individuals akin to Robin Hood's Merry Men.
Patricia Holm, Templar's love interest and fellow adventurer appears as well. Leslie Charteris, Mel Odom Art: A cruise ship crashes suddenly on Liberty Island. All onboard are dead by their own murderous hands. What secrets does the lone survivor harbor within her very soul?
And what horrors does she bring? These are questions only the Green Lama can answer! Reintroducing the most unique Pulp Hero ever! In reality, The Green Lama is Jethro Dumont, a millionaire playboy who spent ten years in Tibet and now uses his Buddhist training to pursue Justice for those denied it! Can even the Green Lama, with his mastery of the supernatural and his radioactive salts, be enough to prevent the coming of…. The Major served as a cavalry officer on the southwest border during the Mexican Revolution.
Then followed his strangest assignment, conducting espionage in legendarily hostile Siberia. After the war he was stationed in Western Europe. These places became the settings for the majority of his hardboiled adventure stories. His use of authentic detail, combined with his superior storytelling ability, make his stories difficult to put down. Adventure, Argosy, The Popular Magazine. It is time for the Major to receive his due—as one of the genuine larger-than-life men of the pulps.
And, yes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson is one of the very, very few people responsible for giving the world Superman. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson could—and because of it, his evocations of heroism and combat have a believability and a personal depth unlike anything else in pulp fiction. Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book. Perils On Planet X is a swashbuckling adventure on a lost planet… join Colonel Donovan Hawke of Terra as he travels through time and space to the ancient emerald world of Xylos — home of vicious reptilian predators, ruthless strato-pirates, beautiful princesses, and innumerable fantastic dangers!
Perils On Planet X is high adventure on alien worlds — classic space opera in the Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alex Raymond traditions, revived for a new millennium! The adventure begins today at the link below! A Girl and Her Cat - New! Tom and Ginger Johnson - New! The Gunslinger's Companion - New! Rise of The Luchador - New! Pulp Magazines Project - Now online! Library of Congress houses its collection of issues in Washington, D. With its latest addition of 4 issues of The Black Mask Aug. The Project also provides information on the history of this important but long neglected medium, along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers.
At the heart of the Project's mission is the archive itself. In summer , it began with a modest library of five representative first-generation pulp titles from the early twentieth century. Over time, the archive will expand, new magazines will be digitized, and contextual materials added. Eventually, the archive will feature a broad range of pre titles, post titles where copyright has lapsed, and full volume runs of select titles from to The Project is dedicated to fostering ties between communities of collectors, fans, and academics devoted to pulp magazines, and will offer opportunities for research and collaboration to both scholars and enthusiasts alike.
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Merritt's novels, short stories, paperbacks, hardcovers, pulps, reprints, and any movies based on these works can all be discussed here. Also, any artwork from any of the above pertaining to Merritt's writing can be discussed and displayed. If interested, questions and statements about other authors that copied or imitated Merritt's style can be posted. Sharing and trading of Pulp Fiction covers. Discussion not only allowed, but encouraged! The annual Doc Savage Convention gathered together for the first time on October 24, Traditionally held the second Saturday of each November, Doc Con attracts residents from around the country, for a weekend of planned Doc Savage events as well as discussions and camaraderie.
Follow along with the planning each year by participating in this group. This group is dedicated to the study and appreciation of one of the greatmasters of literary adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs Creator of numerous famous characters, such as Tarzan, Carson Napier, and John Carter of Mars, and exciting worlds, such as Venus, Barsoom, and Pellucidar, Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the fathers of the Pulp Era and modern heroic fiction.
What you had to do in those days was go to the candy store, pick up a comic book, and look in the back to see where it was published. Most of them were published in Manhattan, they would tell you the address, and you'd simply go down and make an appointment to go down and see the art director. I went up there, and he came out and met me in the waiting room, looked at my work, and said, 'Sit here for a minute'. And he brought the work in, and disappeared for about 10 minutes or so That's how I met [editor-in-chief] Stan [Lee]. Comics historian Michael J.
Vassallo identifies that first story as "Adam and Eve — Crime Incorporated" in Lawbreakers Always Lose 1 cover date Spring , on which is written the internal job number He notes another story, "The Cop They Couldn't Stop" in All-True Crime 27 April , job number , may have been published first, citing the differing cover-date nomenclature "Spring" v. Syd Shores was the art director ". In , he recalled his first cover art being for an issue of Captain America Comics ; [16] Colan drew the page lead story in issue 72, the cover-artist of which is undetermined. After virtually all the Timely staff was let go in during an industry downturn, Colan began freelancing for National Comics, the future DC Comics.
Colan's earliest confirmed credit during this time is penciling and inking the six-page crime fiction story "Dream Of Doom", by an uncredited writer, in Atlas' Lawbreakers Always Lose 6 Feb. By the early s, he was living in New Rochelle , New York. While freelancing for DC romance comics in the s, Colan did his first superhero work for Marvel under the pseudonym Adam Austin.
Stan asked me to come over and work with him. I don't remember how, but I do know that we made a connection, and he asked me, "How about coming over? Why should I leave DC and come over to work with you, unless there's a little something in it for me to do that? I'm not just going to leave them [DC]. He tried to bluff me, and Under his own name, Colan became one of the premier Silver Age Marvel artists, illustrating a host of such major characters as Captain America , Doctor Strange both in the lates and the mids series , and his signature character, Daredevil.
Operating, like other company artists, on the " Marvel Method " — in which editor-in-chief and primary writer Stan Lee "would just speak to me for a few minutes on the phone, tell me the beginning, the middle and the end [of a story] and not much else, maybe four or five paragraphs, and then he'd tell me to make [a page] story out of it," [8] providing artwork to which Lee would then script dialogue and captions — Colan forged his own style, different from that of artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko , whom Lee would point to as examples of the Marvel style.
Whatever book he thought was selling, he would have the rest of the staff try to copy the same style of work, but I wouldn't do it. I'd tell him if you want Stevie Ditko then you'll have to get Stevie Ditko. I can't do it, I have to be myself. So he left me alone.
He knew I meant it and that I couldn't do it and there was no point in trying to force me to do it. Stan recognized something in my work from the very start, whatever that was, that gave [me] my first big break. And I always got along very well with Stan; not everybody can say that but I did And I was intimidated by Stan. I didn't want to go into his office, it upset me a little bit, but he was very nice to me. He left me pretty much alone because I was able to deliver pretty much what he was looking for, so we never had any trouble.
He returned to draw ten issues sprinkled from to , and an eight-issue run in Colan admitted relying upon amphetamines in order to make deadlines for illustrating the series Doctor Strange, [28] for which he would personally visit the character's real-life Manhattan neighborhood, Greenwich Village , and shoot Polaroid photographs to use as location reference. In Captain America Sept. One of the biggest steps we took in this direction came in Captain America.
I enjoyed drawing people of every kind. I drew as many different types of people as I could into the scenes I illustrated, and I loved drawing black people. I always found their features interesting and so much of their strength, spirit and wisdom written on their faces. I approached Stan, as I remember, with the idea of introducing an African-American hero and he took to it right away.
I looked at several African-American magazines, and used them as the basis of inspiration for bringing The Falcon to life. Concurrent with his move to Marvel, Colan also contributed several stories to Warren Publishing 's line of black-and-white horror comics magazines, beginning with the six-page tale "To Pay the Piper", by writer Larry Ivie , in Eerie 2 March There and in subsequent stories for that magazine and its sister publication, Creepy , Colan would ink his own pencil work.
The vast majority of there were written by Warren editor Archie Goodwin , with whom Colan would later collaborate on Marvel's Iron Man. Colan in the s illustrated the complete, issue run of the acclaimed [37] [38] horror title The Tomb of Dracula. Colan, already one of Marvel's most well-established and prominent artists, said he had lobbied for the Tomb of Dracula assignment. When I heard Marvel was putting out a Dracula book, I confronted [editor] Stan [Lee] about it and asked him to let me do it.
He didn't give me too much trouble but, as it turned out, he took that promise away, saying he had promised it to Bill Everett. Well, right then and there I auditioned for it. Stan didn't know what I was up to, but I spent a day at home and worked up a sample, using Jack Palance as my inspiration and sent it to Stan. I got a call that very day: Colan and Marv Wolfman created several supporting characters for the Dracula series.
His work on Doctor Strange was ranked ninth on the same list. I would see something in my mind, and that is what you would draw! I've never had that experience with another artist before or since. Colan returned to DC in , [50] following a professional falling out with Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter , [51] Colan recalled two decades later that Shooter.
It was the worst experience I had to leave Marvel because of him. I wouldn't stay, and I I left a pension plan, everything. I would have stayed, but Shooter gave me such a rough time. In fact, the vice president [of Marvel] had been down in a meeting with me and Shooter, trying to pacify me and get me to stay.
And I just wouldn't do it, cause I could see the writing on the wall, and I knew where Shooter was heading, and I didn't want any more of it. He brought his shadowy, moody textures to Batman , serving as the character's primary artist from to , penciling most issues of Detective Comics and Batman during this time. His debut issue of the character's eponymous series was Oct. Wonder Woman February premiered the new costume and an altered cover banner incorporating the "WW" emblem. Colan's style, characterized by fluid figure drawing and extensive use of shadow, was unusual among Silver Age comic artists, [67] and became more pronounced as his career progressed.
He usually worked as a penciller , with Frank Giacoia and Tom Palmer as his most frequent inkers. Independent-comics work includes the Eclipse graphic novel Detectives Inc.: He contributed to Archie Comics in the late s and early s, drawing and occasionally writing a number of stories. His work there included penciling the lighthearted science-fiction series Jughead 's Time Police July —May , and the one-shot To Riverdale and Back Again, an adaptation of the NBC TV movie about the Archie characters 20 years later, airing May 6, ; Stan Goldberg drew the parts featuring the characters in flashback as teens, while Colan drew adult characters, in a less cartoony style, and Mike Esposito inking both.
Raiders of the Abyss. Mystery Train, which went on hold, he said in , "when Marvel ran into problems, so everything came to a halt. Right now it's in limbo. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan 's son is writing it I asked him to do the posing and he did. Tales of the Slayers, an omnibus that included writer Doug Petrie's page "Nikki Goes Down", starring a s vampire slayer seen in one episode of the namesake TV series. Colan penciled the final pages of Blade vol. That same month, for the anniversary issue Daredevil vol.
On May 11, , his family announced that Colan, who had been hospitalized for liver failure, had suffered a sharp deterioration in his health. Gene Colan was married twice: Colan died in the Bronx on June 23, , aged 84, following complications of cancer and liver disease. Visions of a Man without Fear" from November 15, , to March 15, He co-created the Falcon, the first African-American superhero in mainstream comics, and the non-costumed, supernatural vampire hunter Blade, who went on to appear in a series of films starring Wesley Snipes.
Captain Marvel is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Most of these versions exist in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe. To retain their trademark, Marvel has had to publish a Captain Marvel title at least once every two years since, leading to a number of ongoing series, limited series, and one-shots featuring a range of characters using the Captain Marvel alias.
Brie Larson stars as Danvers, alongside Samuel L. Set in , the story follows Danvers as she becomes Captain Marvel after the Earth is caught in the center of a galactic conflict between two alien worlds. Development of the film began as early as May , and was officially announced in October , making it Marvel Studios' first female-led superhero film. Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve were hired as a writing team the following April after submitting separate takes on the char Marvel Super-Heroes is the name of several comic book series and specials published by Marvel Comics.
The third series began in as a seven issue miniseries. It was again written by Marv Wolfman, this time with artist Tom Mandrake. The Baron himself did not participate in the missions and would manipulate, sometimes unethically, others to do so for him. This was because, for reasons not revealed, he could not leave Wintersgate Manor, the labyrinthine mansion in Washington, D. The mansion was located in a special juncture of time and space, allowing him to send his team to different places and times.
The issue series featured a group of vampire hunters who fought Count Dracula and other supernatural menaces. On rare occasions, Dracula would work with these vampire hunters against a common threat or battle other supernatural threats on his own, but more often than not, he was the antagonist rather than protagonist. Howard character Solomon Kane. Publication history Original series In , the Comics Code Authority relaxed some of its longstanding rules regarding horror comics, such as a virtual ban on vampires. Marvel had already tested the waters with a "quasi-vampire" character, Morbius, the Living Vampire, but the company was now pr Daredevil is the name of several comic book titles featuring the character Daredevil and published by Marvel Comics, beginning with the original Daredevil comic book series which debuted in Publication history s Daredevil debuted in Marvel Comics' Daredevil 1 cover date April ,[1] created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett,[2] with character design input from Jack Kirby, who devised Daredevil's billy club.
Blade is a American superhero horror film directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. In the film, Blade is a Dhampir, a human with vampire strengths but not their weaknesses, who protects humans from vampires. Despite mixed reviews from film critics, the film received a positive reception from audiences and has since garnered a cult following.
Trinity, both written by Goyer who also directed the latter. Blade was a dark superhero film for its time. Yon-Rogg is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is an alien Kree, a military commander whose weakness is his jealousy of the accomplishments of others and his love for the medic Una. He is sent to supervise the troublesome planet Earth. He is primarily a foe of Captain Marvel, specifically the Carol Danvers version and was indirectly responsible for her transformation into Ms. Fictional character biography Yon-Rogg is a Kree military officer who is the commander of the Helion, a Kree spaceship that was sent to Earth by the Supreme Intelligence.
He ends up leaving Mar-Vell on Earth so that Una can be his. The character debuted during the Silver Age of comic books and has made many appearances since then, including a self-titled series and the second volume of the Marvel Spotlight series. Publication history From to Fawcett Comics published comics featuring their popular character Captain Marvel, and thus held the trademark to the name "Captain Marvel". Fawcett ceased publishing the comics in due to a copyright infringement suit from DC Comics, and their trademark ostensibly lapsed.
Taking advantage of this s Doctor Strange is the name of several comic book titles featuring the character Doctor Strange and published by Marvel Comics, beginning with the original Doctor Strange comic book series which debuted in Publication history Doctor Strange vol. Expanded to 20 pages per issue, the Doctor Strange solo series ran 15 issues, June — November , continuing the numbering of Strange Tales.
Colan drastically altered the look of the series, as Thomas recounted: Everyone else sort of copied Ditko's versions of those extra dimensi Blade is a film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name, portrayed by Wesley Snipes. They were written by David S. Goyer, based on the comics by Marv Wolfman, and Gene Colan. The character was created in for Marvel Comics by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan and was a supporting character in the s comic Tomb of Dracula.
In the comic, Blade's mother was bitten by a vampire while she was in labor with Blade. Films Blade Blade grows up to become a Vampire Hunter, swearing vengeance on the creatures that killed his mother. He teams up with a man called Whistler, a retired vampire hunter and weapons expert. Meanwhile, in the urban underworld, a feud is started between "pure-blood" vampires and those who had been human, but were "turned. Daredevil is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Daredevil was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of input from Jack Kirby. While he no longer can see, the radioactive exposure heightens his remaining senses beyond normal human ability and Doctor Strange serves as the Sorcerer Supreme, the primary protector of Earth against magical and mystical threats.
Inspired by stories of black magic and Chandu the Magician, Strange was created during the Silver Age of Comic Books to bring a different kind of character and themes of mysticism to Marvel Comics. The character's origin story indicates that he was once an egotistical surgeon. After a car accident severely damages his hands and hinders his ability to perform surgery, he searches the globe for a way to repair them and encounters the Ancient One.
After becoming one of the old Sorcerer Supreme's students, he becomes a practitioner of both the mystical arts as well as martial arts, along with studying many powerful spells. He has a suit consisting of two Marvin Arthur Wolfman[1] born May 13, [2] is an American comic book and novelization writer.
This was a revised version of Marvel is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was originally conceived as a female counterpart to Captain Marvel. Like Captain Marvel, most of the bearers of the Ms. Marvel title gain their powers through Kree technology or genetics. Marvel has published four ongoing comic series titled Ms. Marvel, with the first two starring Carol Danvers, and the third and fourth starring Kamala Khan.
Carol Danvers Carol Danvers, the first character to use the moniker Ms. Marvel 1 January with super powers as result of the explosion which caused her DNA to merge with Captain Marvel's. Marvel, Danvers becomes a mainstay of the supe Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character from the gothic horror novel Dracula. Van Helsing is an aged polymath Dutch doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his name: The character is best known throughout many adaptations of the story as a vampire hunter and the archenemy of Count Dracula.
John Seward, to assist with the mysterious illness of Lucy Westenra. Van Helsing's friendship with Seward is based in part upon an unknown prior event in which Van Helsing suffered a grievous wound, and Seward saved his life by sucking out the gangrene. It is Van Helsing who first realizes that Lucy is the victim of a vampire, and he guides Dr. Seward and his friends in their efforts to save Lucy. According to Leonard Wolf's annotations to the novel, Va Roy William Thomas Jr.
He is possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, with a series that added to the storyline of Robert E. Howard's character and helped launch a sword and sorcery trend in comics. The first of these was All-Giant Comics, which he recalls as having fe As the superhero Falcon, Wilson uses mechanical wings to fly, granting him limited telepathic and empathic control over birds. Wilson's deceased nephew was the Incredible Hulk's sometime-sidekick Jim Wilson, one of the first openly HIV-positive comic-book characters.
The Winter Soldier and reprises his role in Avengers: Age of Ultron , Ant-Man Colan may refer to: The Guardians of the Galaxy are a fictional spacefaring superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning formed the team from existing and previously unrelated characters created by a variety of writers and artists, with an initial roster of Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Quasar, Adam Warlock, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer and Groot.
These Guardians first appeared in "Annihilation: Conquest" 6 April A feature film based on this team was released in to critical acclaim.