Previously available only in electronic formats and in premium hardcover heirloom editions, the clear-text versions of the six-volume Talos Chronicle will be available in paperback on August 1st. The Doc Talos books are a unique joining of art and prose, with each side of that creative equation inspiring the other. The books contain hundreds ofContinue reading “Cover reveal for new clear text paperbacks of the Talos Chronicle”
Author Archives: R. Paul Sardanas
Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 4
With the fourth chapter of DC Comics’ 1990 story The Conflagration Man, the unique storytelling conjunction of the two great pulp crimefighters came to its conclusion. As it had done with each preceding chapter, it shifted from one ongoing series to the other, this time moving from Chapter 3 in The Shadow Strikes, to ChapterContinue reading “Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 4”
Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 3
Part 1 and Part 2 of this article explored the unique novelty of seeing Doc Savage and The Shadow together in the 1990 DC Comics story The Conflagration Man. There were a number of clever, fun moments of mixing the story and character structures of the two great pulp heroes. Authors Mike Barr and GerardContinue reading “Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 3”
Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 2
Returning to the DC Comics version of Doc Savage and The Shadow from Part 1, the cliffhanger from the previous issue was The Shadow, in disguise as a gangster, had been captured and brought to Doc’s Crime College to undergo the operation that wipes out criminal tendencies. The cover of the story’s second part continuesContinue reading “Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 2”
Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 1
Given that they were arguably the most popular fictional characters of their era, owned and produced by the same publisher, it’s strange that there were not more occasions when Doc Savage and The Shadow crossed paths. Certainly it is understandable in the sense that the primary writers of each, Lester Dent for Doc Savage andContinue reading “Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 1”
Your first Doc Savage cover?
There is a rite of passage that happens for all Doc Savage fans…the first time you were seduced by one of the series’ long, long array of spectacular covers. It might have been on a Bantam paperback, a comic book or magazine, or even an original pulp. The artist names included in that gallery ofContinue reading “Your first Doc Savage cover?”
Doc Savage and Rollerball: Pamela Hensley’s 1975
1975 was a unique year for the actress Pamela Hensley. She appeared in two motion pictures, and her roles were both strikingly different and eerily similar. One film, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, was a campy adventure with aspirations to be a blockbuster. Its tone was upbeat and innocent. She plays Mona, a loveContinue reading “Doc Savage and Rollerball: Pamela Hensley’s 1975”
Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #12 – There is a Perfection
Note from Doc Talos author/contest judge R. Paul Sardanas: A fascinating piece of pastiche detective work by Joan Lee, who links the notorious stories and poems by Anais Nin, Henry Miller and George Barker, commissioned privately in the 1940’s by an individual known to them as “The Collector” (later revealed to be Oklahoma oil manContinue reading “Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #12 – There is a Perfection”
The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Conclusion
At the end of Part 3 of this article, after exploring this story’s unique position as one of the final tales closing out the era of the hero pulps, as well as the narrative strangeness of the beginning and middle parts of the story itself, there was a portentous question remaining: was the Hell encounteredContinue reading “The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Conclusion”
The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this article, numerous qualities about the story that have built it up into pulp-mythic status were explored — qualities which had very little to do with the story itself. The fact that it was the final issue in the iconic Doc Savage series undoubtedly gave it extra weight,Continue reading “The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Part 3″
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