In his analysis of post-World War II horror fiction, The Modern Weird Tale ( 2001 ), critic S. T. Joshi devotes a chapter to King's work.

The Grand Comics Database does not list the job, which may or may not have been signed ; Miller's first listed work is the six-page " Deliver Me From D-Day ", by writer Wyatt Gwyon, in Weird War Tales No. 64 ( June 1978 ).

A two-page story, however, written by Roger McKenzie and titled " Slowly, painfully, you dig your way from the cold, choking debris ...", appears in Weird War Tales No. 68 ( Oct. 1978 ).

* Mad editor Al Feldstein, who was stationed in Blytheville during World War II, later wrote a science fiction story set in Blytheville, " Chewed Out ," Weird Science 12 ( March 1952 ).

Between 1997 and 2002, he contributed artwork on fill-in issues ( or to jam issues ) of Crusades, The Dreaming, Flinch, House of Secrets, The Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams ..., Totems, Weird War Tales and Weird Western Tales.

He contributed to the multi-artist Transmetropolitan special " I Hate It Here " and provided three covers each to the on-going Transmetropolitan ( 2002 ) and Swamp Thing ( 2001 ); covered the complete Scarab ( 1993-4 ) miniseries, all 19 issues of Outlaw Nation and one issue each of the anthology titles Gangland, Heartthrobs and Weird War Tales.

Like most pulp magazines, Weird Tales suffered from the newsprint shortage during World War II, and after the War from increasing competition from comic books, radio drama, television and paperback books.

* Weird War

Historical figures and events on Earth-C also parallel those of the real world, including the " Second Weird War " ( World War II ; Earth-C's version featured the U. S. and the Allies fighting the " Ratzis " ( Nazis )) and President Abraham Linkidd ( a goat, Earth-C's version of Abraham Lincoln ), who was immortalized in the nation's capital in the " Linkidd Memorial.

His uncle Merton McSnurtle was secretly the Terrific Whatzit, a crime fighter during the Second Weird War.

" in Weird War Tales # 70 ( Dec. 1978 ).

He contributed to the company's line of horror comics notably with the creation of the Creature Commandos in Weird War Tales # 93 ( Nov. 1980 ) and I … Vampire in House of Mystery # 290 ( March 1981 ).

The first entrant in the Weird Wars line is Weird War II: Blood on the Rhine and uses the d20 System under the Open Gaming License from Wizards of the Coast.

* Weird War Tales No. 99 ( 1981 )

* Weird War Tales # 51-52 ( 1977 )

* Weird War Tales # 113 ( 1982 )

Initially he was put to work on strips for anthology titles such as Weird War Tales, and drew three issues of Jamie Delano's 2020 Visions, as well as various covers for DC.

* Weird War Tales # 3: " New Toys " ( with Grant Morrison, Vertigo, 1997 )

* Weird War Tales ( with Edvin Biuković, " A Prayer to the Sun ", Vertigo, 2000 )

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Smith was one of " the big three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, where some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions.

From 1933 to 1936, Smith, Howard and Lovecraft were the leaders of the Weird Tales school of fiction and corresponded frequently, although they never met.

As a result, he withdrew from the scene, marking the end of Weird Tales Golden Age.

His short stories originally appeared in the magazines Weird Tales, Strange Tales, Astounding Stories, Stirring Science Stories and Wonder Stories.

Clark Ashton Smith was the third member of the great triumvirate of Weird Tales, with Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

*" The Last Incantation " — Weird Tales, June 1930 LW2

*" A Voyage to Sfanomoe " — Weird Tales, August 1931 LW2

*" The Tale of Satampra Zeiros " — Weird Tales November 1931 LW2

*" The Planet of the Dead " — Weird Tales, March 1932 LW2

*" The Gorgon " — Weird Tales, April 1932 LW2

*" The Empire of the Necromancers " — Weird Tales, September 1932 LW1

*" The Isle of the Torturers " — Weird Tales, March 1933 LW1

*" The Beast of Averoigne " — Weird Tales, May 1933 LW1

*" The Holiness of Azedarac " — Weird Tales, November 1933 LW1

*" The Death of Malygris " — Weird Tales, April 1934 LW2

*" The Seven Geases " — Weird Tales, October 1934 LW2

*" Xeethra " — Weird Tales, December 1934 LW1

*" The Flower-Women " — Weird Tales, May 1935 LW2

*" The Treader of the Dust " — Weird Tales, August 1935 LW1

*" Necromancy in Naat " — Weird Tales, July 1936 LW1

*" The Maze of Maal Dweb " — Weird Tales, October 1938 LW2

The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

Conan the Barbarian was created by Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine in 1932.