Educational Annotations

Some of the comics have (more or less) informative annotations on a variety of topics. This is a list of the more educational ones, sorted by subject tags. Some annotations are listed under multiple subjects.

Comics tagged: mythology

• 598 - Atlantis; orichalcum
• 673 - The Minotaur; Greek mythology; Knossos; Crete
• 703 - The Minotaur, continued; Greek mythology
• 1409 - Palladium of Troy; Heinrich Schliemann
• 1497 - Balrogs; the physical appearance thereof
• 1559 - Snow leopards; troy weight; Trojan War
• 1955 - Cryptids
• 2086 - Ley lines
• 2219 - World trees; Yggdrasil
• 2235 - Mana
• 2254 - Charon
• 2312 - Mystery airships
• 2335 - Rains of fish
• 2420 - Kenneth Arnold and flying saucers
• 2582 - The Aegis of Athena
• 2608 - The Gorgons
• 2650 - Elementals
• 2712 - Hephaestus
• 2741 - Perseus
• 2782 - The Symplegades
• 3031 - Baba Yaga
• 3101 - Scottish dwarves
• 3229 - Romulus and Remus; Roman statues; Ninja Turtles
• 3261 - Ghosts
• 3271 - Machu Picchu
• 3281 - Magic: fiction versus reality
• 3308 - Dragons
• 3339 - Dreams and dreaming
• 3345 - Flying; history of flight
• 3428 - Atlantis; the Greek stadion
• 3438 - Le Morte d'Arthur; the Domesday Book; Geoffrey of Monmouth; Tintagel Castle
• 3443 - Excalibur
• 3448 - Atlas (the titan); atlases
• 3536 - Summoning circles and pentagrams
• 3559 - King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake
• 3648 - King Arthur's Round Table
• 3746 - Robin Hood as a literary archetype
• 3879 - Venus Anadyomene
• 4084 - Troglodytes in Dungeons & Dragons
• 4115 - Owlbears
• 4118 - The myth of Endymion; John Keats's Endymion
• 4170 - Trolls in Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons
• 4182 - Monsters versus animals
• 4238 - Turning undead
• 4270 - Yeth hounds, black dogs
• 4306 - Hapi, god of the Nile flood, and Hapi, Son of Horus
• 4344 - Pholus the centaur
• 4370 - Skíðblaðnir; King Guðmundr and Glæsisvellir
• 4472 - Fee-fi-fo-fum; Jack the folk hero
• 4508 - Myth and folklore
• 4599 - Vampire body temperature
• 4611 - Vampire reflections
• 4681 - Romanian vampire variants
• 4722 - Werewolves
• 4764 - Gargoyles in D&D
• 4855 - Garlic and vampires

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