Part 9 of this long revisit to the Doc Savage black and white magazine of the 1970’s finished up the tale from Issue #2, “Hell-Reapers at the Heart of Paradise”. Almost exactly two years ago, in May 2021, I took a special look at Issue #3, “The Inferno Scheme”…so we’ll pick up now with IssueContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage magazine — best comics Doc ever? Part 10”
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The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 9
As this detailed look at the 1970’s Marvel/Curtis black and white Doc Savage magazine continues, we have reached the climax of the second issue, and its tale “Hell-Reapers at the Heart of Paradise”, by author Doug Moench and artist Tony DeZuniga. The story centers around a favorite theme of the original pulp canon: the “lostContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 9”
The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 8
This detailed look at the stories of the 1970’s Doc Savage black and white magazine continues with the next section of issue #2, which featured the story “Hell-Reapers at the Heart of Paradise”, by author Doug Moench and artist Tony DeZuniga. To this point we have been introduced to a bizarre villain called the MadContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 8”
The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 7
When we left off, this look at the ’70’s Marvel Doc Savage magazine had reached Issue #2 of its eight issue run, with the beginning of a story called “Hell-Reapers at the Heart of Paradise”. I was 17 in 1975, and a huge Doc fan. Though disappointed with the camp approach of the Man ofContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 7”
The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 6
The next issue of the Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage magazine was #2, and it sported a cover by Ken Barr. Though dynamic, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. Certainly there are some nods to the iconic James Bama in its composition (the menacing figure looming in the upper background was a stylistic technique thatContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 6”
The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 5
We’ve arrived at the climax of Issue #1 of the 1975 Doc Savage black and white Marvel magazine, a story titled “The Doom on Thunder Isle”, written by Doug Moench, and drawn by John Buscema and Tony DeZuniga. Having arrived at the titular isle, Doc had upped-periscope from the submarine Helldiver, and was looking overContinue reading “The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 5”
The 1970’s Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage Magazine – best comics Doc ever? Part 4
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”
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”
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