When the five aides of Doc Savage were introduced in the 1933 novel The Man of Bronze, they were featured more or less equally, but it did not take long for a favorite to emerge from among them. The apish chemist Andrew Blodgett “Monk” Mayfair, usually in tandem with his friend and intellectual sparring partnerContinue reading “Featuring: Monk”
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Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #8: Mad Eyes Donovan and the Wolf in Ape’s Clothing
Note from Doc Talos author/contest judge R. Paul Sardanas: This tale by Brooklyn Wright, featuring the wildest of the Kenneth Robesons and a certain apelike chemist brainstorming a Doc Savage yarn one night in 1935, made me smile from its beginnings in a Queens trainyard to its ending in the company of a madam whoContinue reading “Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #8: Mad Eyes Donovan and the Wolf in Ape’s Clothing”
Review of the 1948 Doc Savage novel “I Died Yesterday”
Since I first heard of it in 1973 (it got a lot of attention in Philip José Farmer’s Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, which I acquired in that year) to 1988, when Doc Savage Omnibus #5 was released, the novel “I Died Yesterday” was one of my Doc holy grails. The mention by Farmer thatContinue reading “Review of the 1948 Doc Savage novel “I Died Yesterday””