The Super-Team: A Pulp Creation
You’ve heard me complain in the past about how much I hate “The Guy in the Chair“. That character that exists largely to give the Read More
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Doc Savage vs. Superman
Doc Savage vs. Superman? You can blame Will Murray for this one. In his piece called simply “Intermission” in the Sanctum reprints of Murder Mirage/The Read More
The Strangest Northerns: A Ticket Outside
“A Ticket Outside” by Robert Ormond Case (1895-1964) is a strange Northern in a slightly different way than the usual. It is not a tale Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Menace of Mastodon Valley
“The Menace of Mastodon Valley” by Kenneth Gilbert (1889-1973) is one of the strangest Northerns I have ever read. Gilbert is best remembered as a Read More
The First Doc Savage Comics
When you think of Doc Savage Comics, you probably think of the Jim Steranko color comic or the black & white magazine by Marvel. Maybe Read More
Doc Savage Comics: The Polar Treasure
We listed the Doc Savage Northerns in another piece but we didn’t really get to look at comic books. Doc Savage Comics #3 (February 1941) Read More
The Doc Savage Black & White Magazine
Marvel Comics pursued a line of black & white magazines in the early 1970s. The idea, no doubt, came from the success of the Warren Read More
Hero Pulps: Champions of Excitement
The hero Pulp was a product of the 1930s and the Great Depression. In a time when all seemed doom and gloom, it was exciting Read More
Doc Savage’s Hair: The Coiffe of Bronze
Recently someone in a Doc Savage Facebook group asked a question, and it was a good one. The question was: How did we go from Read More
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – Doc Savage Across the Genres
Doc Savage is hard to place in any one publisher’s pigeon-hole, which may be the reason Bantam Books reprinted the adventures with “Novel” on the Read More