C.K. Gill

One of the greatest creative minds ever employed exclusively by Bulwark Publications, C.K. Gill is famous for his creations, his odd sense of humor, and his longevity in publishing. Most who met Gill found his easy smile and infectious laugh what they most remember, though more people remember his writing (which varied from strong to [...]

November 2, 2009 Tags: A.J. Soltare, AIR RAID REED, Almanarcana, AMERIKIDDO, August Villers, BARNSTORM BRADLEY, Books Bizarre, BRICK BRADLEY, Brooklyn, BROOKLYON, BULLETEENS, Bulwark Comics, Bulwark Publications, Bulwark Publishing, C.K. Gill, CALAMATINA, CATTALION, Chicago, Clark Kent, Collected C.K. Gill, Comte du San Gyrmayn, CONSTELLAGENT, Croatia, Crotia, dime-novels, DOC SCARAB, DOCTOR ENIGMA, DYNAST, editor, Ellis Island, encyclopedia, FIVE PROMETHEANS, G.U.A.R.D., Geneva House, Golden Age, Great Britain, Green Gazette, Gyrmayn Annals, HANDORR, HEADLINE HAL, historian, Illinois, John Hawksmoor, JOHN UNKNOWN, Kharm, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, MIKE MAELSTROM, Milwaukee, National Periodicals, NEWSIE, Northwestern, O.R.P.H.A.N., orphanage, Oscar Kharm, penny dreadfuls, penny papers, PHARAOHAWK, PHARLAKANS, Pierre Aurlathe, RAPTANS, research, Rupert Kharm, silver, Silver Age, Stavros Krashos, T.H.R.E.A.T., TANK TAYLOR, THEONS, Toronto, University of Chicago, urn, USAPES, Vanguard ring, Vasily Nashivev, Villers, VOID VANDALS, volume, volumeternal, William Carson, Wisconsin, World War I, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Vanguard, writer, XERXREX, ZYNTHORN Posted in: Genre-Adventure Fiction, Genre-Battle Fiction, Genre-Biography, Genre-Contemporary Fiction, Genre-Detective Fiction, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Genre-Frontier Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Genre-Holiday Fiction, Genre-Horror/Weird Fiction, Genre-Mystery Fiction, Genre-Science Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Golden Age Comics, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics, World-Vanguard One Comment

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

Bulwark Comics: CROSSROADS

This is the standard title for stories revolving around multiple Earths among Bulwark Comics publications. BC saw the benefit of the multiple Earths concept from some of its pulp stories and played with it first in 1944, having characters meet from the Guardians comic line in Bulwark comics (“Crossroads of Reality,” Best Comics #48, August [...]

January 29, 2009 Tags: "Crisis at the Crossroads", "Crossroads of Reality", "Crossroads of the Mind", 4-COLOR THRILLS, ANTIPANTHEON, Best Comics, BROOKLYON ADVENTURES, BULWARK BLAST HOUR, Bulwark Comics, Bulwark Mega-Action, Bulwark Publications, Charles Knight, Clash at the CROSSROADS, CLIFF COMET, Contest at the CROSSROADS, COSMICORPS, Crossroads, CROSSROADS & Crises, CROSSROADS Cases, CROSSROADS of Chaos, CROSSROADS of Crime, CROSSROADS: Legacies, CROSSROADS: Ragnarok, CROSSROADS: Timestorm, E.C. Buckner, Fear at the CROSSROADS, G.U.A.R.D., Guardian Games, Guardians Comics, Hanged at the CROSSROADS, ISLA MYSTERIA, John Farnsworth, LOKI, Michael Joseph, MISTER ENIGMA, multiple Earths, multiverse, NIGHTMARINER, NULLFATHER, Portals, Richard Corbett, Rob Sullivan, Silver Age, Stanley Mantel, Super Thrills, T.H.R.E.A.T., Thomas Roy Posted in: Genre-Heroic Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, World-Golden Age Comics, World-Silver Age Comics No Comments

Bulwark Comics: The Silver Age

Bulwark Comics: The Silver Age
In August 1964, Bulwark Publications relaunched Bulwark Comics for its second life. Having absorbed Guardian Comics and its catalog into the fold, Bulwark wanted a new incarnation of all its pulp comic book properties (especially since most of the fiction magazines had folded by this time).
The editorial directive for Bulwark [...]

January 14, 2009 Tags: ACE BARRIGAN, acronym, Adventures Amazing, Adventures Astounding, Adventures Celestial, Adventures in Combat, Adventures Occult, Adventures Supernatural, android, ARACHNAUT, ATOMICHASM, BLAZE BERET, BLUE WYCHFYRE, BRICK BRADLEY, BROOKLYON, Bulwark Allies, Bulwark Blasts, Bulwark Classics, Bulwark Comics, Bulwark Debut, Bulwark Double Feature, Bulwark Duos, Bulwark Horizons, Bulwark Mega-Action, Bulwark Publications, Bulwark Showcase, Bulwark Triple Feature, Bulwark’s Best Comics, Bulwark’s Fantasticomics, Carl Snow, Charles Knight, CONSTELLAGENT, Corps Cosmica, DOCTOR ENIGMA, E.C. Buckner, Fairgeth Blue, G.U.A.R.D., GASLIGHT, GLACIA, GOLIATH GIRL, Guardian Comics, HARMARKHIS, JOHN UNKNOWN, Judah Buxton, Justice Tales, Kharndam Tales, KNIGHTS OF THE ATOMICHASM, legion, M.E.N.A.C.E., NEMESISTONE, New Electri-Comics, Peter Edgars, Redressor, Sam Torwitz, Samuel Carris, SIGNALIER, Silver Age, SOLOMON LAZARUS, T.H.R.E.A.T., Tales Fulminant, Terry Zuller, Thrilling Adventures, Uncanny Exploits, VEIL, WIDOW, WIDOW & VEIL, “Father of Bulwark’s Silver Age”, “Five Old Men” Posted in: Genre-Contemporary Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Silver Age Comics One Comment

Bulwark Comics: Golden Age Characters

For some reason, there are trinities in comic books. Since the birth of the medium, certain characters become the paramount representatives for their respective comics companies. For some reason, it seems to run in trios of characters; it’s only a theory but perhaps the presence of “The Big Three” (Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) during [...]

December 10, 2008 Tags: ACE BARRIGAN, BLAZE BERET, BOB BLAST, BRASS BRADLEY, BULLETEENS, CALAMITY KID, CAPTAIN RADIUM, CHANTEUSE, COLONEL LIBERTY & THE REBELS, COMET CORPS, DOC DRAGON, DOCTOR ENIGMA, EERIE COMPANY, Electri-Comics, ELECTRI-GAL, ELECTRI-KID, EVERGLADIATOR, FEAR PATROL, FIREFIST, FLINT FAIRMONT, FULMI-NANCY, FULMI-NANCY THE ELECTRI-GAL, FULMIN-ANDY, FULMINTRIO, G.U.A.R.D., GHOST BOMBER, Golden Age, GOLIATH GIRL, Guardian Comics, GUNNERY GORILLA, HANDORR THE SORCERER, HEADLINE HAL, HUMAN SWORD, JOHN UNKNOWN, KRAUT-KRUSHERS, LT. FULMINANT, MAJOR MIDNIGHT, MANTICORN, MIASMA, NITA OF THE TROPICS, REX RACER, SARGE SKELETON, SCARLET MARVEL, SGT. RAVEN, SIR FALCON & PEREGRINE, SOLOMON LAZARUS, STAR-SOLDIERS, STRAIGHT-SHOOTER, SUB-MARIE, Super-Thrills Comics, SWIFT SCOTT, TANK TAYLOR, TOR-KAN, UNSEEN SERGEANT, UNSEEN SOLDIER, WARPATH & THE TRAIL-BLAZERS, WIDOW & VEIL, ZEB PETERS Posted in: Genre-Adventure Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Golden Age Comics 4 Comments