{"id":14350,"date":"2022-08-02T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=14350"},"modified":"2022-07-24T20:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T00:46:16","slug":"the-savage-art-of-bob-larkin-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2022\/08\/02\/the-savage-art-of-bob-larkin-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Savage Art of Bob Larkin, Vol. 1’"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to the cover artists for the Bantam Doc Savage<\/a><\/strong> novels, my favorite is James Bama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\""The<\/a>After he did 62 covers, other artists did covers. I know some like the artwork of Fred Pfeiffer<\/strong> who followed and did over a dozen covers. My first Doc had a Pfeiffer cover. Some may like Boris Vallejo<\/strong>, who did several, but I prefer him on other things.<\/p>\n

No, for me my second favorite is Bob Larkin<\/strong>. I remember vividly when I got his first Doc cover, Magic Island<\/em>, and was buying it at K-Mart (back in the days when K-Mart had a pretty good book section). I kept looking at that cover while standing in line and not being able to figure out if it was a painting or a photograph; it was that good. While his subsequent covers were great, they never quite equaled that first one in its photorealism.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how many covers Larkin did, but he did the last of the single novels, then moved to the doubles and some of the Omnibus editions, and a few special Doc covers since.<\/p>\n

The only work I know that highlights his cover work is The Savage Art of Bob Larkin<\/em> from SQP<\/a> in 2009. It’s still in print. It reprints a lot of his cover artwork for various publications and works. There are magazine and book covers, posters, and more. Often with notes by Larkin.<\/p>\n

We get several of his Doc covers, including two pieces that never saw print, but where intended for a further double Doc book. It didn’t happen as instead Bantam went to the Omnibus volumes. Frustratingly, none of his early Doc single covers were included.<\/p>\n

Now, this volume was marked as “Volume 1,” and would love to see a second volume that could reprint the rest of his Doc covers and related work. I’m not sure what other pieces he has done that were left out in this volume.<\/p>\n

The only other book focused on his work is the sketchbook volume from Fantom Press<\/a> in 2013, referred to as Speculative Adventures in Bronze<\/em>. It features Doc with a variety of characters from fiction in kind of “fantasy cover” mode. There are a few with him and The Shadow<\/strong>, and one with The Shadow and The Avenger<\/strong>. It was a limited edition of 500, and copies are still available.<\/p>\n

It would be nice if Fantom could do a volume collecting all of Larkin’s Doc covers. But in the meantime, get these two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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