Showing posts with label Doc Savage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doc Savage. Show all posts

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Pulp -- Doc Savage -- June 13, 2021

 

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Tomorrow is Flag Day, so I thought I would post the cover of the July, 1942 issue of Doc Savage.

Doc Savage was a pulp character who debuted in 1933. Doctor Clark Savage, Jr was a many of many talents, mental and physical. He gathered a team of aides including Monk, Ham, Johnny, Renny and Long Tom. Each had his own unique talents. His cousin Patricia turned up in many stories. Doc and his team had many adventures fighting evil around the world. Lester Dent created the characters and wrote many of the novels.

I first got to know Doc Savage from reprints that Bantam Books did in the 1970s. I often spent what little money I had at Canterbury Corner on Geary or Green Apple Books on Clement buying copies.

George Pal produced a bad movie in 1975. I saw a still in Famous Monsters of Filmland and immediately knew that they had done a poor job with Doc's aides. I went to see it anyway.

DC did some comic books in the 1980s.

I never heard the NPR recreation of the radio show.

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Doc Savage -- May 9, 2017

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Doc Savage was a pulp character who debuted in 1933.  Doctor Clark Savage, Jr was a many of many talents, mental and physical.  He gathered a team of aides including Monk, Ham, Johnny, Renny and Long Tom.  Each had his own unique talents.  His cousin Patricia turned up in many stories.  Doc and his team had many adventures fighting evil around the world.  Lester Dent created the characters and wrote many of the novels.

I first got to know Doc Savage from reprints that Bantam Books did in the 1970s.  I often spent what little money I had at Canterbury Corner on Geary or Green Apple Books on Clement buying copies.

George Pal produced a bad movie in 1975.  I saw a still in Famous Monsters of Filmland and immediately knew that they had done a poor job with Doc's aides.  I went to see it anyway. 

DC did some comic books in the 1980s.

I never heard the NPR recreation of the radio show. 

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Comic Book #22 -- March 20, 2013

The March, 1945 issue of Shadow Comics boasts that it includes "The Three Giants of the Comics: The Shadow, Nick Carter, Doc Savage."  All three characters came from Street and Smith's pulp magazines. 

Friday, October 23, 2009

Pulp #6 -- October 23, 2009


Lester Dent's character Doc Savage premiered in March, 1933. During the 1970s, I came across Bantam's reprints of the stories and read many of them. I liked Doc and his crew of associates, Ham, Monk, Renny, Long Tom, and Johnny.
Here is the cover of the first issue. The image is from a wonderful site called Cover Browser: http://www.coverbrowser.com/