In the 1970s, Marvel Comics got the rights to do a Doc Savage comic. They actually wound up doing two different series. From 1972-74, Marvel did a color comic. In two issues each, they adapted one of the Doc Savage stories. The comic lasted for...
Archive - August 2014
We’ve looked at Sherlock Holmes and some of the Holmes pastiches that became characters in there own right. Now we look at another of those: Harry Dickson, the...
Four books that I think every Doc Savage fan should have are: “Doc Savage: Arch Enemy of Evil” by Larry Widen (1993, 2006) “The Collector’s...
Rocambole is an early French character who is a forerunner of many similar characters of heroic fiction that followed him. These stories were written in the 1850s and...
After the pulp era ended, the next appearance of Doc Savage in comic books came in 1966, after the Bantam paperback reprints took off. Talk of a movie soon started, with...
The Rook is a New Pulp character created by Barry Reese. The Rook fights crime and evil in the ’30s and ’40s (and later). He’s actually one of several New Pulp...
“YesterYear” is the first novel published by Pro Se Press, and was written by Tommy Hancock, the publisher. Up until it came out, Pro Se had been putting out...
One of the most popular characters in French literature is Arsène Lupin. He holds a position similar to that of Sherlock Holmes, which is interesting as they came out...