{"id":1800,"date":"2014-01-13T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2022-11-15T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:51:43","slug":"capt-hazzard-overlooked-doc-savage-clone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2014\/01\/13\/capt-hazzard-overlooked-doc-savage-clone\/","title":{"rendered":"Capt. Hazzard, overlooked Doc Savage clone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Capt.Among original pulp heroes, Capt. Hazzard<\/strong> is sadly a one-hit wonder, and is one of the most blatant Doc Savage<\/a><\/strong> clones.<\/p>\n

Published by Ace Magazines, he got only one issue of his own magazine in 1938. With a novel titled “Python Men of the Lost City,” it even sounds like a typical Doc story.<\/p>\n

A second story was written, but with the magazine canceled, Paul Chadwick<\/strong>, the author, revamped it and turned it into a Secret Agent X<\/strong> story. This story, “Curse of the Crimson Horde,” didn’t seem like a typical Secret Agent X story. And now we know why.<\/p>\n

So, who is Capt. Hazzard<\/a>? He is an adventurer, with dark hair and blue-gray eyes. Blinded as a youth when his parents were murdered, his eyesight is restored by a new surgical procedure. But he has a scar over his left eye.<\/p>\n

While blind, he had developed a mild form of ESP.<\/p>\n

Operating out of Hazzard Labs in Long Island, he assembled a group of people to work with him, which include Dr. Martin Tracy<\/strong>, surgeon; Professor Washington MacGowen<\/strong>, physicist; Tyler Randell<\/strong>, inventor and pilot; and Jake Cole<\/strong>, cowboy. They were joined by William Crawley<\/strong>, reporter.<\/p>\n

Despite lasting only one issue, other authors have reused him. Lin Carter<\/strong> has him make cameo appearances in his Prince Zarkon<\/strong> series, indicating he had married Pat Savage<\/strong>. Wayne Reinagel<\/a><\/strong> used him briefly in his Pulp Heroes series, indicating he’s a love interest for his Pat Savage pastiche, Pam Titan<\/strong>, but that he retired from crime fighting after being hurt in a bomb attack that killed some of his associates.<\/p>\n

And more importantly, Ron Fortier<\/strong> of Airship 27<\/a> revised and revamped the character, putting out revised versions of his two original novels, and adding new novels as well. He has made some changes, such as giving Hazzard a full name of Kevin Douglas Hazzard<\/strong> and a pencil-thin mustache. The problems he found was in part due to Chadwick, who was better at writing detective stories (like Wade Hammond<\/strong> and Secret Agent X), trying to do an adventure story and failing.<\/p>\n

Airship 27’s first volume is a revamp of the first story, “Python Men of the Lost City.” Like most Doc stories, they are approached by a girl looking for her lost father. Fortier fixed this story by filling in plot holes and adding chapters to make it work better.<\/p>\n

The next volume, by Fortier and Martin Powell<\/strong>, is “Citadel of Fear.” An original story, it has Hazzard and company go up against a criminal mastermind called the Green Dragon<\/strong>, who has a hidden fortress in the Rockies.<\/p>\n

\"Capt.For the third volume, Fortier turned the second Capt. Hazzard novel, which had been turned into a Secret Agent X story, back<\/em> into a Capt. Hazzard story. Retitled “Curse of the Red Maggot,” Hazzard and associates are in the South Seas dealing with a threat caused by a heart-shaped, red pearl. A possible female associate is introduced.<\/p>\n

Fortier then came out with another new story, “Cavemen of New York.” New York is threatened by freezing snow and<\/em> cavemen, which Hazzard and friends must put a stop to.<\/p>\n

I keep hoping a fifth volume will come out, but have not heard.<\/p>\n

Now, if you want to read the original first story, it is available out there in reprints. I believe an issue of Adventure House<\/a>‘s “High Adventure” reprinted it, and “The Adventurers” from Black Dog Books<\/a> reprints it along with stories of other Doc clones.<\/p>\n

Comic Books<\/h4>\n

There has been some work with Capt. Hazzard in comics. Ace Comics actually adapted the published Capt. Hazzard story to comics. In Sure-Fire Comics<\/em> #1, the first story of Flash Lightning<\/strong> is based on that first Capt. Hazzard story. Which is funny, because there is no relationship between the two characters.<\/p>\n

I do recall hearing talk of a Capt. Hazzard comic around 1993 or 1994, but nothing came of it.<\/p>\n

Ron Fortier has also spoken of doing a Capt. Hazzard comic. As he’s been doing pulp comics through Redbud Studios<\/a> (All Pulp Comics<\/em> #1 and 2), I figured something would happen, but not yet.<\/p>\n

So there you have it. Another interesting Doc Savage clone. Check him out, as the character is pretty interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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