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Thirty years ago, Millennium Productions’ comic book presentation of The Monarch of Armageddon was coming to its climax. The final issue of the four-issue series had a dynamic cover by Brian Stelfreeze, depicting Doc fighting the ubermensch from the hidden civilization of Thule, Xaus. The primary villain of the story, however, was John Sunlight. AcrossContinue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 8”

In the last installment, we were halfway through Millennium Productions’ original comic story The Monarch of Armageddon, written by Mark Ellis and drawn by Darryl Banks. The tale featured John Sunlight as its prime antagonist, and took place as a direct sequel to the Lester Dent pulp Doc Savage novel, The Devil Genghis. Across theContinue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 7”

In the previous article, I began a look back at the 1991-92 Millennium Productions depiction of Doc’s ultimate enemy, John Sunlight. Written by Mark Ellis and drawn by Darryl Banks, Sunlight was the antagonist in an ambitious, complex story called The Monarch of Armageddon. It was a direct sequel to the 1938 pulp novel TheContinue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 6”

In the first parts of this article, I explored the pulp magazine roots of the villain John Sunlight in the 1930’s novels Fortress of Solitude and The Devil Genghis, followed by his comic book incarnations, which began fifty years later. Marvel Comics, in the 1970’s, teased a story featuring Sunlight in their black and whiteContinue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 5”