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 [...]

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Bulwark Publishing: The THRILLS™ Pulps

The Bulwark THRILLS™ Pulps

Among the most popular publications Bulwark put out from the 1920’s through the 1950’s were the THRILLS™ magazines. In fact, that trademark continues today with their nonfiction magazine on gaming (now mainly electronic, but also card and role-playing) GAMING THRILLS™.

The first magazine was the only one that was a digest-sized magazine [...]

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Kharndam Guide: Shay

Shay
One of the Four First Races of the world of Dharual, the shay bristle with elemental powers but never grow taller than young human children. The four natural shay are the arshay, flying wind-shapers; the ershay, hard-edged rock-melders; the firshay, blazing-haired fire-wielders ever-wreathed in heat mirages; and the washay, wan water-breathers and wave riders. [...]

January 2, 2009 Tags: Arlha, Arshay, Bulwark Publications, BULWARKS & BASILISKS, Divinity of Tsarnus, Eagle, Eagle’s Path, ershay, firshay, glators, Jhural’s Leap, kelshay, Kharndam Tales, Khiilm, Kobek Nine-Stars, Lluranal, Markisles, rhamathi, Sagas Supernatural, Skyheight, Star-Mages, Straits of Chamuk, Summer’s Bend, Tales Terrific, Tsarnus, Twelvelands, washay, World of Kharndam, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Electronic Games, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics 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 [...]

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