As this detailed look at the 1970’s Marvel/Curtis black and white Doc Savage magazine continues, we have reached the climax of the second issue, and its tale “Hell-Reapers at the Heart of Paradise”, by author Doug Moench and artist Tony DeZuniga. The story centers around a favorite theme of the original pulp canon: the “lostContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 9”
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Columbia Pat Savage, Part 3
Guest blogger Atom Mudman Bezecny wraps up her look at the 1930’s Columbia Pictures movie series featuring the magnificent Pat Savage. The films that never were…but should have been. __________ PAT SAVAGE, GIRL GANGBUSTER (1938) Saving the best for last: the poster for the third Pat movie captures the glamour and giddiness the series embodied.Continue reading “Columbia Pat Savage, Part 3”
Columbia Pat Savage, Part 2
Guest blogger Atom Mudman Bezecny continues her tour-de-force 1930’s cinematic history of Pat Savage by Columbia Pictures… ________ PAT SAVAGE – LADY LANCELOT (1937) A jail guard flinches at the eerie look in Pat’s eyes in this lobby card for the second Pat Savage movie. Is that a hint of a Mona Lisa smile onContinue reading “Columbia Pat Savage, Part 2”
Columbia Pat Savage, Part 1
Many thanks to guest blogger Atom Mudman Bezecny, who takes us deep into the movie career of Pat Savage…that never was. But oh, if it only had been… _____________ In the early days of cinema, movie theaters operated rather differently than they do today. Instead of offering a single A-tier feature for the price ofContinue reading “Columbia Pat Savage, Part 1”
Release day for Atom Mudman Bezecny’s “Leon Shatters the Easter Eggs”
Gromagon Press is proud to announce the release of Atom Mudman Bezecny’s powerful tale Leon Shatters the Easter Eggs. This is a prestige hardcover, with wraparound Gustav Klimt cover, and illustrated within by classic century-old Decadent and Symbolist paintings and drawings. To set the mood for this remarkable story, here is the Introduction, by DocContinue reading “Release day for Atom Mudman Bezecny’s “Leon Shatters the Easter Eggs””
Advocacy, inclusiveness and dignity in New Pulp
As writers and readers of pulp fiction, I think sometimes we feel a detachment in our work and entertainment from some of the realities of society around us. It’s all just pulp adventure and escapism, right? The answer can be yes, and that said without judgment. That is a large part of the allure ofContinue reading “Advocacy, inclusiveness and dignity in New Pulp”
Three pulp authors discuss “Doc Savage: The Perfect Assassin” by James Patterson and Brian Sitts
What follows is a review/discussion by three diverse authors…all enthusiastic creators and readers of pulp adventure. The three of us met in 2021 and immediately enjoyed one another’s company and writings to the degree that we joined in the tradition of author circles like the 1930’s Kalem Club (a literary group whose last names allContinue reading “Three pulp authors discuss “Doc Savage: The Perfect Assassin” by James Patterson and Brian Sitts”
Review of Doc Talos “Fortress”
FORTRESS, by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon — review by Grace Ximenez This book is going to be enormously challenging to review. And this is far from my first rodeo…I’ve been reviewing books and films for over two decades, and have even reviewed works in the Talos universe (having done a review ofContinue reading “Review of Doc Talos “Fortress””
The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 8
This detailed look at the stories of the 1970’s Doc Savage black and white magazine continues with the next section of issue #2, which featured the story “Hell-Reapers at the Heart of Paradise”, by author Doug Moench and artist Tony DeZuniga. To this point we have been introduced to a bizarre villain called the MadContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 8”
The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 7
When we left off, this look at the ’70’s Marvel Doc Savage magazine had reached Issue #2 of its eight issue run, with the beginning of a story called “Hell-Reapers at the Heart of Paradise”. I was 17 in 1975, and a huge Doc fan. Though disappointed with the camp approach of the Man ofContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 7”
Doc Talos 