Much has been made — over many decades — out of the fact that across the original pulp run of Doc Savage magazine, only one villain came back to oppose Doc for a second time. That character, of course, was John Sunlight. He was certainly a unique and compelling character. In many ways he wasContinue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 1”
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Millennial Doc Savage – Part 8
In the previous article, the exploration of efforts to update the iconic 1930’s/1940’s pulp character Doc Savage into the 21st century focused on the penultimate chapter of Dynamite Entertainment’s 2013 story Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. Written by Chris Roberson and drawn by Bilquis Evely, the first seven issues were an ambitious effort toContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 8”
Millennial Doc Savage – Part 7
Continuing the look at the literary efforts to update the iconic pulp magazine hero Doc Savage into the Millennial world of today, we come to the climax of Dynamite Entertainment’s 2013 comic book series Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. The story unfolded over eight issues, all written by Chris Roberson and drawn by BilquisContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 7”
Millennial Doc Savage – Part 6
With issue #6 of Dynamite Entertainment’s Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, the story’s timeline (which had begun in the 1930’s) crossed over the boundary of the year 2000, bringing Doc into the Millennium. Writer Chris Roberson had used a plot device to carry Doc through the years essentially unaged, but by 2000 all ofContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 6”
Millennial Doc Savage – Part 5
The DC Comics updating of Doc Savage to the present day ran for two special team-up stories and then 18 solo issues beginning in 2010, was wildly inconsistent — with remarkable highs and lows — and after the comic was cancelled, the rights to present the character in comics form shifted to another company. ThatContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 5”
Millennial Doc Savage – Part 4
In the first three parts of this article, I explored DC Comics’ 2010 effort to update the iconic pulp character Doc Savage into the 21st Century. Over the course of DC’s “First Wave” project, Doc appeared in a team-up alongside a new take on Batman, a mashup with an array of revived and re-imagined 20thContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 4”
Millennial Doc Savage – Part 3
One of the most challenging of literary ambitions is to carry an immensely successful, culturally iconic character from the early decades of the 20th century into an innovative and relevant re-imagining in the 21st. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this article, I looked at DC Comics’ 2010 effort to do exactly that withContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 3”
Talos Fan Fiction Contest #15 – The Abduction
Note from Doc Talos author/contest judge R. Paul Sardanas: Steve Donoso is a prominent figure in the pulp community, editor/founder of the new pulp journal,The Shadowed Circle, the first ongoing publication about Walter Gibson’s iconic character in over two decades. Their Facebook page is: facebook.com/Burbank1931 Steve combines two classics in his story The Abduction: theContinue reading “Talos Fan Fiction Contest #15 – The Abduction”
Millennial Doc Savage – Part 2
A character created in the 1930’s, and adeptly designed to tap into the dreams, hopes, and fantasies of the Depression-era world, Doc Savage was one of the most popular figures in adventure fiction, and arguably fiction as a whole at that time. Over and over, more modern authors, artists and publishers have tried to carryContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 2”
Millennial Doc Savage – Part 1
The classic pulp character Doc Savage will always be powerfully connected to the era in which he was created…the 1930’s. He was in many ways a consummate man of that time, countering the dark days of the Great Depression with stories of high adventure blended to a practical idealism for society and technology. Since theContinue reading “Millennial Doc Savage – Part 1”
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