The fourth of five consecutive first-person narratives in the Doc Savage pulp magazine took place in the Nov./Dec 1947 issue. The previous issue had debuted the new title of the series, Doc Savage Science Detective, and this (though it would be short-lived), continued as well. The three first-person point of view stories to this pointContinue reading “Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: Once Over Lightly”
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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”
The strange days of Doc Savage, Science Detective
For a brief period before Doc Savage magazine ended its run in 1949 (and the hero pulps as a genre essentially disappeared), the magazine changed its title, adding “Science Detective” after Doc’s name. That decision was reversed just before the end, with an attempted return to style and appearance of the 1930’s pulps, but itContinue reading “The strange days of Doc Savage, Science Detective”
Review of the 1948 Doc Savage novel “I Died Yesterday”
Since I first heard of it in 1973 (it got a lot of attention in Philip José Farmer’s Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, which I acquired in that year) to 1988, when Doc Savage Omnibus #5 was released, the novel “I Died Yesterday” was one of my Doc holy grails. The mention by Farmer thatContinue reading “Review of the 1948 Doc Savage novel “I Died Yesterday””
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