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”
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 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”
Courage and Tragedy: Princess Monja in the Doc Savage comics – Part 2 of 4
After the briefest of appearances in the Marvel comics adaptation of The Man of Bronze in 1972, Monja would not appear in the comics again until 1987. And that appearance was very odd indeed. DC Comics had acquired the rights to do Doc Savage, and based on the success of Howard Chaykin’s revisionist modern TheContinue reading “Courage and Tragedy: Princess Monja in the Doc Savage comics – Part 2 of 4”
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