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”
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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 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”
The Woman With Golden Eyes
One of the most important figures in the Talos stories is Patricia…who of course is based on Pat Savage, as well as Phil Farmer’s incarnation of Pat, Trish Wilde. My favorite Doc Savage adventures were always the ones with Pat…and she appeared in 39 novels over the span of the pulp run. When the timeContinue reading “The Woman With Golden Eyes”
Doc Talos 