The DC Comics updating of Doc Savage to the present day ran for two special team-up stories and then 18 solo issues beginning in 2010, was wildly inconsistent — with remarkable highs and lows — and after the comic was cancelled, the rights to present the character in comics form shifted to another company. ThatContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 5”
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Millennial Doc Savage – Part 4
In the first three parts of this article, I explored DC Comics’ 2010 effort to update the iconic pulp character Doc Savage into the 21st Century. Over the course of DC’s “First Wave” project, Doc appeared in a team-up alongside a new take on Batman, a mashup with an array of revived and re-imagined 20thContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 4”
Millennial Doc Savage – Part 3
One of the most challenging of literary ambitions is to carry an immensely successful, culturally iconic character from the early decades of the 20th century into an innovative and relevant re-imagining in the 21st. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this article, I looked at DC Comics’ 2010 effort to do exactly that withContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 3”
Talos Fan Fiction Contest #15 – The Abduction
Note from Doc Talos author/contest judge R. Paul Sardanas: Steve Donoso is a prominent figure in the pulp community, editor/founder of the new pulp journal,The Shadowed Circle, the first ongoing publication about Walter Gibson’s iconic character in over two decades. Their Facebook page is: facebook.com/Burbank1931 Steve combines two classics in his story The Abduction: theContinue reading “Talos Fan Fiction Contest #15 – The Abduction”
Millennial Doc Savage – Part 2
A character created in the 1930’s, and adeptly designed to tap into the dreams, hopes, and fantasies of the Depression-era world, Doc Savage was one of the most popular figures in adventure fiction, and arguably fiction as a whole at that time. Over and over, more modern authors, artists and publishers have tried to carryContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 2”
Millennial Doc Savage – Part 1
The classic pulp character Doc Savage will always be powerfully connected to the era in which he was created…the 1930’s. He was in many ways a consummate man of that time, countering the dark days of the Great Depression with stories of high adventure blended to a practical idealism for society and technology. Since theContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 1”
Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #14 – The Shy Man
Note from Doc Talos author/contest judge R. Paul Sardanas: Leslie is an old comrade of mine from my days writing erotic thrillers — it was interesting to see that given total freedom of content here, she chose to dial down the intense erotic content of that genre of fiction. Instead, she has approached the topicContinue reading “Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #14 – The Shy Man”
The on-again, off-again love affair between Jim Steranko and Doc Savage
Sometimes an artist will embrace a character with so much enthusiasm and brilliance that the two become forever linked. It seemed, at various points across the past fifty years, that such a bonding might happen between the dynamic, innovative creator Jim Steranko, and the iconic character Doc Savage. But it never really happened. Steranko, anContinue reading “The on-again, off-again love affair between Jim Steranko and Doc Savage”
Paperback release for Talos “Esoterica”
For those who have experienced any or all of the 6-volume Talos Chronicle (and lived to tell the tale), a companion volume of short stories, vignettes, art and photos is being released on August 1 for those with continuing interest in Doc. Esoterica is an eclectic array of stories, photos and full-color artwork that enhanceContinue reading “Paperback release for Talos “Esoterica””
Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #13 – Forged in Bronze
Note from Doc Talos author/contest judge R. Paul Sardanas: Scott Cranford brings us another look at a younger James Talos, with a look at the crucible within which the most enduring metal can be forged, both inside and outside. Comment from author Scott Cranford: I’ve been a Doc Savage fan since I was twelve yearsContinue reading “Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #13 – Forged in Bronze”
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