When we left off in this in-depth look at the Marvel/Curtis 1975 Doc Savage black and white magazine, we were deep into the story of issue #1, titled The Doom on Thunder Isle, written by Doug Moench, and drawn by John Buscema and Tony DeZuniga. A little bit of fun nostalgia for those Doc fansContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 4”
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The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 3
In the first two parts of this article, I began a look at the comics adaptation of Doc Savage that many fans — even almost fifty years after they appeared — consider the finest ever done. The Doc Savage magazine of that era was published hoping to ride the coattails of what was a hoped-forContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 3”
The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, I took a look at some of the history of Doc Savage comics from Marvel in the 1970’s, which began in 1972 in the full color Doc Savage comic (which adapted original pulp novels in two-issue arcs), and then transitioned after the color comic’s cancellation into a black andContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 2”
The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 1
The classic pulp character of Doc Savage has had an uneasy relationship with the medium of sequential graphics — comic books. For some reason, though each time a new Doc Savage comics series appears the publisher claims they “finally did Doc Savage right”…very few readers and critics seem to agree. Some fans don’t like DocContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 1”
Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: I Died Yesterday
A few months back, I did a review of the story I Died Yesterday, but in essence it was more a discussion of my long literary love for the character Pat Savage, and how it reached one of its peaks in my reading of this short novel, which is narrated by her. In the contextContinue reading “Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: I Died Yesterday”
Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: Let’s Kill Ames
The third of five consecutive first-person narratives in the Doc Savage pulp magazine took place in the Sept/Oct 1947 issue. The first two had involved a look at the Doc Savage world through the eyes of a tough-talking, hard-edged “regular guy”, and then what would normally have been a background character: a rather unlikable two-bitContinue reading “Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: Let’s Kill Ames”
Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: The Monkey Suit
The second of five first-person narratives in the latter part of the Doc Savage pulp run was in July-August 1947. The story was called The Monkey Suit. The cover art, unlike the May-June issue, actually depicted the main Doc Savage novel, though it was once again a composition in the late-Forties abstract style. Author LesterContinue reading “Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: The Monkey Suit”
Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: No Light to Die By
Toward the end of the long run of the Doc Savage pulp magazine, author Lester Dent changed things up a bit. The stories from 1933 up to May-June 1947 were all told in third-person narrative. With that issue however, and across the following four installments of the magazine, the stories were told from a first-personContinue reading “Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: No Light to Die By”
The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, I discussed some of the factors that built up the legend of this unique story. In a way, a perfect storm of literary weight had grown around it by the time it was discussed by Philip José Farmer in his 1973 book Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. Literary weightContinue reading “The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Part 2″
Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #8: Mad Eyes Donovan and the Wolf in Ape’s Clothing
Note from Doc Talos author/contest judge R. Paul Sardanas: This tale by Brooklyn Wright, featuring the wildest of the Kenneth Robesons and a certain apelike chemist brainstorming a Doc Savage yarn one night in 1935, made me smile from its beginnings in a Queens trainyard to its ending in the company of a madam whoContinue reading “Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #8: Mad Eyes Donovan and the Wolf in Ape’s Clothing”
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