Some pulp fans may be aware of Philip José Farmer‘s 1969 book “A Feast Unknown.” This book pitted two pulp icons — Tarzan and Doc Savage...
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Recently I looked at the “biographies” of pulp characters Tarzan and Doc Savage by Philip José Farmer. As part of doing a biography, Farmer also...
Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) was a long-time SF author and pulp fan. He turned his love of the pulps into several works using the pulp characters he loved...
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...
Four books that I think every Doc Savage fan should have are: “Doc Savage: Arch Enemy of Evil” by Larry Widen (1993, 2006) “The...
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...
Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, has long been a popular pulp hero. But he has also appeared in comic books over the years; some good, some not so good. He first...
A while back I posted on The Bronze Gazette, a “must have” fanzine for fans of Doc Savage put out by Howard Wright. As noted, it’s published...
Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze. Among the best known of pulp heroes. He is the pulp world’s Superman to The Shadow as Batman. (So does this make Street...
Some pulp hero fans make the mistake of lumping all the pulp heroes together into one group, as if they comprise a genre all their own. Sometimes it leads to...