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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The Doc Savage Brotherhood of Bronze
Late in 1975 I was seventeen years old, living in a beach town in Delaware. I’d gotten early acceptance to college, and was already pursuing my writing career, doing short science fiction and fantasy stories (I have an impressive collection of rejections from some of the legendary editors in the field). At college my majorContinue reading “The Doc Savage Brotherhood of Bronze”
Rare Orchid: Princess Monja in the Doc Savage comics – Part 1 of 4
My first sight of Monja, the lovely (if romantically ill-fated) Mayan princess of the Valley of the Vanished, came on the cover of the 1972 comic Doc Savage #2, with art by Jim Steranko. Of course the woman behind Doc is not named, but who else could it be? And it was certainly a dynamicContinue reading “Rare Orchid: Princess Monja in the Doc Savage comics – Part 1 of 4”
Doc Talos 