In the first installments of this article, I took a look at the pulp roots of Doc Savage’s most celebrated foe, John Sunlight — then began the exploration of his literary return in Doc Savage comics across the decades. The first of those revivals came in the late 80’s/early 90’s DC Comics series, in aContinue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part Four”
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Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 3
In Part 1, I examined the pulp origins of the most ubiquitous villain in the Doc Savage canon, and in Part 2 explored how DC Comics resurrected John Sunlight in the 1980’s. The story of that return, called “Sunlight Rising”, was written by Mike Barr, and illustrated by Rod Whigham. It was a long story,Continue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 3”
Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 2
In Part 1, we took a look at John Sunlight’s origins in the pulps, as well as the interest in the character generated by his mention in Philip José Farmer’s Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, and the near miss of a Sunlight appearance in the Marvel/Curtis Doc Savage black and white magazine of the ’70’s.Continue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 2”
Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 1
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”
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 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”
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