Sometimes an artist will embrace a character with so much enthusiasm and brilliance that the two become forever linked. It seemed, at various points across the past fifty years, that such a bonding might happen between the dynamic, innovative creator Jim Steranko, and the iconic character Doc Savage. But it never really happened. Steranko, anContinue reading “The on-again, off-again love affair between Jim Steranko and Doc Savage”
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Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 4
With the fourth chapter of DC Comics’ 1990 story The Conflagration Man, the unique storytelling conjunction of the two great pulp crimefighters came to its conclusion. As it had done with each preceding chapter, it shifted from one ongoing series to the other, this time moving from Chapter 3 in The Shadow Strikes, to ChapterContinue reading “Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 4”
Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 3
Part 1 and Part 2 of this article explored the unique novelty of seeing Doc Savage and The Shadow together in the 1990 DC Comics story The Conflagration Man. There were a number of clever, fun moments of mixing the story and character structures of the two great pulp heroes. Authors Mike Barr and GerardContinue reading “Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 3”
Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 2
Returning to the DC Comics version of Doc Savage and The Shadow from Part 1, the cliffhanger from the previous issue was The Shadow, in disguise as a gangster, had been captured and brought to Doc’s Crime College to undergo the operation that wipes out criminal tendencies. The cover of the story’s second part continuesContinue reading “Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 2”
Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 1
Given that they were arguably the most popular fictional characters of their era, owned and produced by the same publisher, it’s strange that there were not more occasions when Doc Savage and The Shadow crossed paths. Certainly it is understandable in the sense that the primary writers of each, Lester Dent for Doc Savage andContinue reading “Doc Savage and The Shadow together – Part 1”
Your first Doc Savage cover?
There is a rite of passage that happens for all Doc Savage fans…the first time you were seduced by one of the series’ long, long array of spectacular covers. It might have been on a Bantam paperback, a comic book or magazine, or even an original pulp. The artist names included in that gallery ofContinue reading “Your first Doc Savage cover?”
The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Conclusion
At the end of Part 3 of this article, after exploring this story’s unique position as one of the final tales closing out the era of the hero pulps, as well as the narrative strangeness of the beginning and middle parts of the story itself, there was a portentous question remaining: was the Hell encounteredContinue reading “The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Conclusion”
The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this article, numerous qualities about the story that have built it up into pulp-mythic status were explored — qualities which had very little to do with the story itself. The fact that it was the final issue in the iconic Doc Savage series undoubtedly gave it extra weight,Continue reading “The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Part 3″
The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Part 1
As the last issue in the pulp run of Doc Savage magazine, its publication heralding the end of the hero pulps in 1949, the story Up From Earth’s Center has achieved something of mythic status. On the surface, its themes are worthy of that status — after 16 years of epic storytelling, the inference wasContinue reading “The Myth and Psychology of “Up From Earth’s Center” – Part 1″
The Doc Savage Journal: The Untold Story – by Art Sippo
Featured on the blog today is an article by Dr. Arthur Sippo, discussing the story behind the 1969 publication The Doc Savage Journal. It’s a fascinating look at a little-known chapter in Doc Savage history. Many thanks to Art for sharing it here on the Forbidden Pulp Blog, and special thanks to Jeff Deischer, forContinue reading “The Doc Savage Journal: The Untold Story – by Art Sippo”
Doc Talos 