{"id":5852,"date":"2016-12-28T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=5852"},"modified":"2022-07-03T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T16:03:07","slug":"more-doc-ardan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2016\/12\/28\/more-doc-ardan\/","title":{"rendered":"More Doc Ardan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2016\/12\/doc-ardan-the-abominable-snowman.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5852]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6101\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2016\/12\/doc-ardan-the-abominable-snowman-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"'Doc Ardan: The Abominable Snowman'\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2016\/12\/doc-ardan-the-abominable-snowman-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2016\/12\/doc-ardan-the-abominable-snowman.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a>I have posted before on <strong>Doc Ardan<\/strong>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcoatpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Coat Press<\/a> has come out with a volume of new and old Doc Ardan stories.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s be clear. French writer <strong>Guy d&#8217;Armen<\/strong> created young adventurer <strong>Doctor Francis Ardan<\/strong> in a trio of sf-adventure novels: <em>The City of Gold and Lepers<\/em> (1928), <em>The Troglodytes of Mount Everest<\/em> (1929), and <em>The Giants of Dark Lake<\/em> (1931), serialized in a French pulp magazine. All tell of Ardan&#8217;s adventurers going up against several super-science villains in distant areas of Asia. The first novel actually occurs after the second and third.<\/p>\n<p>Because of his similarities to <strong>Doc Savage<\/strong>, <strong>Jean-Marc<\/strong> and <strong>Randy Lofficier<\/strong> made some tweaks to their translation to have &#8220;Francis Ardan&#8221; be an alias used by a young Clark Savage before his pulp adventures. This allowed for others to use Doc Ardan as a Doc Savage pastiche in <em>Tales of the Shadowmen<\/em> series and other works. As the earlier works were never available in English, claiming they were an influence on the creation of Doc Savage is a bit much.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Black Coat Press has put out the three novels in two volumes, and now have another volume: <em>The Abominable Snowman<\/em>. It contains more Guy d&#8217;Armen stories, plus the previous Doc Ardan stories from <em>Tales<\/em> along with new Doc Ardan stories.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Guy d&#8217;Armen wrote <em>many<\/em> stories of adventurers who, while they have different names, are pretty much the same character: set in the &#8217;20s, a doctor\/scientist, polymath, tall, blond, and with a driving father. So changing their names to &#8220;Francis Ardan,&#8221; and we have more stories. You can read more about this in the intro of the book.<\/p>\n<p>From Guy d\u2019Armen we get a set of short (and I mean <em>short<\/em>) stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Abominable Snowman&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Giant Bat&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Vampire of the Hamada&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Lair of the Javanese Witch-Doctor&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then there are the several new Ardan stories. Most are reprints from <em>Tales<\/em> or other Black Coat Press works. A small number are original to this volume.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>Rick Lai<\/strong>: &#8220;The Midas Menace&#8221; (new) is set when Francis is still a baby, so this one is more focused on his father. This is supposed to be part of a new work Lai is working on that ties in the origin of Doc and <strong>The Avenger<\/strong>. Can&#8217;t wait to see that!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>John Peel<\/strong>: &#8220;The Biggest Guns&#8221; (from <em>Tales<\/em> #6) set in WWI, has Doc Ardan on a mission that has him involved with The Gun Club (from <strong>Jules Verne<\/strong>) and <strong>Lord Roxton<\/strong> (from <strong>Conan Doyle<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Jean-Marc Lofficier: &#8220;The Star Prince&#8221; (from <em>Tales<\/em> #2) had Doc met up with <strong>The Little Prince<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>Vincent Jounieaux<\/strong>: &#8220;The Dreadful Conspiracy&#8221; (from <em>The Shadow of Judex<\/em>). In post-WWI France, Doc Ardan and friends (including <strong>Jules de Grandin<\/strong>) must clear his name, after being pulled into a conspiracy created by <strong>Bob Morane<\/strong>&#8216;s foe, the <strong>Yellow Shadow<\/strong>. (Bob Morane is an interesting French adventurer who has many science fictional stories, and one of his long-time foes is the <strong>Fu Manchu<\/strong>-like Yellow Shadow.).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>Travis Hiltz<\/strong>: &#8220;Family Reunion&#8221; (new) has several members of the Ardan family meeting, including <strong>Michel Ardan<\/strong> from Verne&#8217;s <em>From the Earth to the Moon<\/em> and <strong>Dale Ardan<\/strong>, companion of <strong>Flash Gordon<\/strong>. And they also join with an associate of <strong>Dr. Omega<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>Jason Scott Aiken<\/strong>: &#8220;Ardan at the Pole&#8221; (from <em>Tales<\/em> #12) has Doc Ardan traveling to the North Pole to find a hidden race of reptilian people (from <em>The People of the Pole<\/em>, a French sf novel translated by Black Coat Press).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>Christopher Paul Carey<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Win Scott Eckert<\/strong>: &#8220;Iron and Bronze&#8221; (from <em>Tales<\/em> #5) has <strong>Hareton Ironcastle<\/strong> (an adventurer from a French sf novel later revamped by <strong>Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer<\/strong>) visiting a lost colony of Atlantis located in the Hoggarth Mountains in north Africa. Doc Ardan shows up toward the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>Matthew Dennion<\/strong>: &#8220;A Scientist First and Foremost&#8221; (new) has Ardan going up the <strong>Beast of Gevaudan<\/strong>, a legendary werewolf. Or is it? An interesting story, and an interesting explanation of The Beast. Could lead to more stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<strong>Peter Gabbani<\/strong>: &#8220;Small Dreams of a Floating City&#8221; (new) shows a &#8220;day in the life&#8221; of Ardan, dealing with yet another megalomaniac, a floating city in Antarctica, and vampire zombie bats.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Win Scott Eckert has been working with Farmer&#8217;s notes to complete the first <strong>Pat Wildman<\/strong> story, who is <strong>Doc Wildman<\/strong>&#8216;s daughter. Doc Wildman is Doc Savage&#8217;s &#8220;real&#8221; name, per Farmer. So Eckert used these stories to setup the background of how Doc met Pat&#8217;s mother: <strong>Adelaide Lupin<\/strong>, the daughter of <strong>Arsene Lupin<\/strong>. &#8220;The Eye of Oran&#8221; (from <em>Tales<\/em> #2) introduces Adelaide along with and <strong>Violet Holmes<\/strong> (created by <strong>Matthew Baugh<\/strong> and Eckert), daughter of <strong>Mycroft Holmes<\/strong>. Here they deal with <strong>Dr. Natas<\/strong> (a certain oriental villain), and also meet Doc Ardan in post-WWII Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0&#8220;Les L\u00e8vres Rouges&#8221; (from <em>Tales<\/em> #3) follows the story from the previous volume and has Ardan, with the involvement of other characters, including <strong>Nestor Burma<\/strong>, a French noir detective, retrieving the Eye from Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0&#8220;The Vanishing Devil&#8221; (from <em>Tales<\/em> #1) is the first to make use of Doc Ardan and is set after Doc Savage\u2019s published adventures, where he again comes up against Dr. Natas.<\/p>\n<p>We also get some additional material. We get an introduction that also has a timeline for all these Doc Ardan stories set before &#8220;The Man of Bronze,&#8221; based on work by Eckert and Lai. As I noted, it also goes into more detail of what they did to turn these stories into Doc Ardan stories. And we get a new bibliography of Guy d&#8217;Armen works that expands what was in the prior volume. I think this is about three to four times as many as on the first list.<\/p>\n<p>So is this it? Hardly. We are teased atleast four more novels, including one, <em>The Fall of Inramonda<\/em>, that has been tossed out as a possible title of the next collection. And there are all those additional stories listed in the bibliography, mostly short stories but also a few more novels. And there are several who can come up with new stories. So hopefully not the end of more Doc Ardan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have posted before on Doc Ardan, and Black Coat Press has come out with a volume of new and old Doc Ardan stories. So let&#8217;s be clear. French writer Guy d&#8217;Armen created young adventurer Doctor Francis Ardan in a trio of sf-adventure novels: The City of Gold and Lepers (1928), The Troglodytes of Mount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan looks at more Doc Ardan. #newpulp","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[7,46,135,14],"tags":[147,190,110,11,62],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-5852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-pulp","category-pastiche","category-reprints","category-review","tag-black-coat-press","tag-doc-ardan","tag-doc-savage","tag-french-pulps","tag-wold-newton-universe"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2016\/12\/doc-ardan-the-abominable-snowman.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-1wo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14450,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions\/14450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}