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Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: Let’s Kill Ames

The third of five consecutive first-person narratives in the Doc Savage pulp magazine took place in the Sept/Oct 1947 issue. The first two had involved a look at the Doc Savage world through the eyes of a tough-talking, hard-edged “regular guy”, and then what would normally have been a background character: a rather unlikable two-bitContinue reading “Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: Let’s Kill Ames”

Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: No Light to Die By

Toward the end of the long run of the Doc Savage pulp magazine, author Lester Dent changed things up a bit. The stories from 1933 up to May-June 1947 were all told in third-person narrative. With that issue however, and across the following four installments of the magazine, the stories were told from a first-personContinue reading “Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: No Light to Die By”

Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #7 – 1950

Note from Doc Talos author/contest judge R. Paul Sardanas: New Yorker Joe S. Stuart, master of the vignette, gives us a charming glance at the “Year After The Hero Pulps Died”, from the point of view of the heroes. And who among us here in 2021 wouldn’t faint dead away to see a bundle ofContinue reading “Talos Fan Fiction Contest Entry #7 – 1950”