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Guardian Comics (Part II)

Guardian Comics (Part 2)
[For the complete history of Guardian Comics, start with the Guardian Comics post from May 31, 2009.]

Electri-Comics (April 1940 to October 1958; 223 issues);
Since her premiere in Best Comics #35 (December 1938), FULMI-NANCY THE ELECTRI-GAL proved to be one of the biggest hits ever produced by Guardian Comics. In fact, nearly [...]

June 2, 2009 Tags: 28TH CENTURY BOY, AIRBURN, aliens, American, Andrew Lang, Arabian Nights, Arrow Comics, Atlantis, BARNEY THE CLOCKWORKER, Best Comics, BIG BEN TATE, Blast Comics, BLITZ BAILEY, BLITZCRAIG, British, Brothers Grimm, Bulwark pulps, Canadian, CARBUNCLE CARMICHAEL, caveman, CAVEMAN CARTER, CLIFF DOVER, COLONEL LIBERTY & THE REBELS, COMET CORPS, DANGEROUS DANIEL, DAWES, dinosaur, DOC HUNTER, DOC HUNTER EXPLORER, DONNELLA, DRUID THE DRACADIAN, ECHO COMPANY, Electri-Comics, ELECTRI-GAL, ELECTRI-KID, evil twin, faerie tale, Fantasticomics, FIREFIST, FLINT FAIRMOUNT, FOE OF FIGMENTS, FRONTLINE FRANK, FULMI-NANCY, FULMI-NANCY THE ELECTRI-GAL, FULMI-NASTY THE ELECTRIXEN, FULMIN-ANDY THE ELECTRI-KID, FULMINIA, FULMINTRIO, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Genre-Horror/Weird Fiction, German, Giant Comics, GOLIATH GIRL, Guardian Comics, HANDORR THE SORCERER, IN THE GLASSTLE OF GLORA, Italian, JACQUES ROCKET, JANICE MARSHALL, JANICE MARSHALL UNDERCOVER MARTIAN, Japanese, JEANNIE DJINNI, jungle, JUNGLE QUEEN, LORD OF LIGHTNING, lost world, LT. FULMINANT, M.P. OF MAGIC, Magic, MAJOR MEGALITH, MOON-BASE MAX, mysticism, NEIGHBORS OF WISHLAND, NITA, POLLY BUNYAN, Port Thunder, PRIVATE BRACE OF DANGER COMPANY, REX RACER, REX RACER 28TH CENTURY BOY, Rocket Comics, Savage Comics, science fiction, Science Thrills, Secret Comics, SIR FULMINUS, SIR FULMINUS LORD OF LIGHTNING, Space Thrills, SPARKY THE FULMENTIGER, STAR-SOLDIERS, STEEL STAG, SWORDIANE, TALES OF WISHLAND, TARA OF THE TROPICS, TEN-FOOT TAYLOR, THE ATLANTISCROLLS, THE FULMENTOR, THE FULMI-KNIGHTS, THE FULMINTRIO, THE HUMAN SWORD, THE LANDS BEYONDREAMS, THE MANTICORN, THE MATHESON FAMILY, THE SHANGRI-LADY, THE STEEL STAG, THE TERROR TANK, THE TUNDRAGON, THE UNDERNAUTS, THE WHYLAND GUARD, thriller, time travel, TIME-TRAPPED TALES, TONY THE IRON-PONY, TOR-KAN THE JUNGLE LORD, TRANCE TAMMETT, UNDERCOVER MARTIAN, Ventesch WISHLAND. D.J. Ventesch, Victory Comics, war, Wondrous Comics, World War I, World War II Posted in: Genre-Adventure Fiction, Genre-Battle Fiction, Genre-Children's Fiction, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Genre-Frontier Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Genre-Horror/Weird Fiction, Genre-Science Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Golden Age Comics, World-Silver Age Comics, World-Vanguard, World-Wishland No Comments

Guardian Comics (Part I)

Guardian Comics started in 1936 Toronto, Ontario solely as a medium that collected and republished comic strips in book form, like most early comic books. Terry Zuller, Guardian’s editor in chief, wanted to oversee a creative stable like the one he’d once marshaled on American pulps like Scarab Stories. Zuller commissioned six writers and artists [...]

May 31, 2009 Tags: AIRBURN, Arrow Comics, Australian, Best Comics, Blast Comics, BLITZ BROTHERS, BLITZCRAIG, BOB BLAST, BRIGADEMONS, BRIGADIER BLACK, British, Bulls-Eye on History, Bulwark Publications, BULWARKS & BASILISKS, Canadian, CAPES & COWLS, Charles Knight, Clash Comics, Clive Horrach, COACHWHIP HAMMOND, comic books, comic strips, CORPORAL KANGAROO, DOC DRAGON, DONNELLA, DRUID DAWES, E.C. Buckner, ECHELON OF EVIL, Electri-Comics, exploration, faerie tales, Fantasticomics, G.U.A.R.D., Genre-Fantasy Fiction, GIRISH, Golden Age, Guardian Comics, Harvard, historical adventures, HUMANTA, Indian, Jim Adams Sharpshooter, jungle, KID SPITFIRE, Knights of the Round Table, Marshall Ranheart, Mike Harrigan Bounty Hunter, Native Americans, Ontario, pulps Scarab Stories, RED ROBINSON, Richard West, Robin Hood, Savage Comics, SECRET SHAMAN, Silver Age, SIR FALCON & PEREGRINE, SUB-MARIE, superhumans, TALL TRAILS, Terry Zuller, THE BRAVES FOUR, THE EVERGLADIATOR, THE FOUR FAKIRS, THE HANGING JUDGE, THE HUMAN SWORD, THE MANTICORN, THE THAMESERPENT, THE TRAIL-BLAZERS, THE TRINITEAM, THE WIDOW & VEIL, THOMAS TWO-EAGLES, Toronto, Wanted!, Wild West, WILD WEST TRAIL TALES, Wondrous Comics Posted in: Genre-Adventure Fiction, Genre-Battle Fiction, Genre-Children's Fiction, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Genre-Frontier Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Genre-Horror/Weird Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Golden Age Comics, World-Silver Age Comics, World-Vanguard No Comments

“Oscar’s Christmas” Part the Second

“Oscar’s Christmas”
Part the Second
In which Father Christmas/Santa Claus imparts some secrets and gifts.

Santa coughed, then smiled at Oscar. “Now before you ask, I’m afraid I cannot bring your parents here for you—The work they do is very important for you and many more children. Simply know they love you and you will all be together [...]

December 21, 2008 Tags: Brigid Talmadge, Christmas, Father Christmas, Oscar Kharm, Santa Claus, Tintern, Tintern Abbey, Wales Posted in: Genre-Children's Fiction, Genre-Holiday Fiction, World-Vanguard 3 Comments

“Oscar’s Christmas” Part the First

“Oscar’s Christmas”
Part the First
In which a young boy named Oscar gets a Christmas surprise beyond expectations.

Christmas time should be magical for everyone, but most especially for children. The war had forced many children like Oscar to be moved away from London during the Blitz. His parents busy with war work, Oscar now lived in Tintern, [...]

December 20, 2008 Tags: Aura Kharm, Brigid Talmadge, Christmas, Father Christmas, Nazi, Nazis, Oscar Kharm, Santa Claus, Simon Kharm, Tintern, Tintern Abbey, Wales Posted in: Genre-Children's Fiction, Genre-Holiday Fiction, World-Vanguard No Comments

Bulwark Publishing: The WISHLAND Books

Edward Ventesch wrote the original WISHLAND stories at the request of London editor E. Charles Tennet for A Child’s Wonder Stories magazine. The initial WISHLAND tales appeared monthly from July 1897 through 1903. These garnered enough response to be packaged into novelized forms (compiling and editing together six months’ worth or more of stories into [...]

December 18, 2008 Tags: A Child’s Wonder Stories, A Cure for Hiccoughs, A Dance at Midnight, A Kitten’s Adventures with her Girl, A Motorcar in Wishland, A Snoring of Carbuncles, A Troll in Camden Town, A Wish for Christmas, Andrew Lang, Another Wish for Christmas, Arnold Garrison, Aura Covill, Aura Ventesch, BARNEY THE CLOCKWORKER, BARROWDELLS, Boardings by Boggils, BRUINCLAWS, Bulwark Publications, Bulwark Publishing, BULWARKS & BASILISKS, CARBUNCLE, Charlotte Ventesch, CLARICE MATHESON, Claws of a King, Clockwishes and Fishes, CLOCKWORKER, CLOOT THE MISCHIEF-MAKER, D.R. Ventesch, DAGUERROTIGER, DAVID MATHESON, Deirdriana, Denys Ventesch, E. Charles Tennet, Edward Ventesch, EVERBURNING HILLS, Faerie Court, Fairy Books, Farewell Merrincopse, FEYBERGS, Flip-Books, Flowers for Forgotten Friends, GLOWHALES, GNARLMOORS, Green Gazette, HOLLY MATHESON, HORATIO ARDENT, Into the Caves of Gloom, INVISIBEARS, IRON HORSE, IRON HORSELANDS, IRON HORSEMAN, Kharm, Kharm’s Gazette, KING MATH, L. Frank Baum, Lost in the Either Orchards, Lost Puzzle Peaces, MAGGIE MATHESON, March of the Clockworkers, MARY MATHESON, Mary’s Waking Dream, MERRINCOPSE, Message in a Bottle, MOTHER MATHESON, NILES ALTOAK, Oscar Kharm, OZ, PRINCE DAREK, PRINCESS GAVINA, QUEEN LARKSPUR, RAZOR PRAIRIES, REDRAGOONS, Return of the Iron Horse, Revenge by Rail, S.D. Ventesch, SHARDSEAS, Skating on Thin Niceties, SNOWOLVES, Stanley Denys Ventesch, STRAY THAUTS, Summer Holidays at the Hear-side, The Caves Plundered, The Crown Shattered, The Flag Unfurled, The Gatehouse Shattered, The Manor Ruined, The Three Princes, The Throne Transformed, The Train to Wishland, The Wishing Star, TIN-TYGERS, TODD MATHESON, Todd Matheson’s Faerie Grandmother, War Comes to Wishland, When the Magic Flickers, Wishes in the Highlands of Harmony, Wishland War II, WOES, World-Wishland Posted in: Genre-Children's Fiction, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Wishland No Comments