The next appearance of John Sunlight in a comic book story was a very unique one, as it was a pastiche, rather than an “authorized” Doc Savage property. And it was in a series whose original creator, the late great Dave Stevens, was an enthusiastic Doc fan. He created the popular Rocketeer series. Stevens passedContinue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 11”
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Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 10
John Sunlight’s appearance in DC Comics’ First Wave event of 2010 was iconoclastic indeed. The whole series had lofty goals of redefining pulp and comic book heroes into a format that could stimulate interest among readers in the millennial world — in retrospect, it didn’t fully succeed in creating a revolution in heroic literature, butContinue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 10”
Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 9
Time is strange. It doesn’t feel as if almost 20 years passed after Millennium Productions’ fine Doc Savage comics story The Monarch of Armageddon, before the character of John Sunlight would appear anywhere again. And yet it was 2010 that DC Comics (who had held the comic book rights to produce Doc stories in theContinue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 9”
Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 8
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”
Fun, Passion and Insight: The Incomparable World of Pulp
In a 1980’s comic book called Aztec Ace (written by Doug Moench, the author who also did the superb 70’s black and white Doc Savage magazine for Marvel — the paperback cover to The Man of Bronze, as well as a Shadow paperback cover are also prominently displayed below), there is a splash page inContinue reading “Fun, Passion and Insight: The Incomparable World of Pulp”
Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 7
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”
Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 6
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”
Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 5
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”
Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 3
In Part 1, I examined the pulp origins of the most ubiquitous villain in the Doc Savage canon, and in Part 2 explored how DC Comics resurrected John Sunlight in the 1980’s. The story of that return, called “Sunlight Rising”, was written by Mike Barr, and illustrated by Rod Whigham. It was a long story,Continue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 3”
Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 2
In Part 1, we took a look at John Sunlight’s origins in the pulps, as well as the interest in the character generated by his mention in Philip José Farmer’s Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, and the near miss of a Sunlight appearance in the Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage black and white magazine of the ’70’s.Continue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 2”
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