Comments on: Before there was Indiana Jones, there was...

Before there was Indiana Jones, there was...

crunchland — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:09:25 -0800

Doc Savage Pulp Covers, 1933-1949.

By: substrate

substrate — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:13:01 -0800

Thanks crunchland, Doc Savage were my favourite novels when I was a kid.

By: sodalinda

sodalinda — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:14:59 -0800

Heh. I just saw a bunch of these, in real life, at thebrooklyn museum of art. I had no idea that most of those pulp art covers were originally oil paintings. Fascinating.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:18:48 -0800

I love the abstract ones from 1947 and 1948.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:37:18 -0800

Don't forget the movie!

By: sunexplodes

sunexplodes — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:57:42 -0800

there's a million good band names in here.

By: Wulfgar!

Wulfgar! — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:58:54 -0800

Perfect link. I grew up reading about the Man of Bronze. Thanks crunchland.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:18:14 -0800

this is the one i have

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:26:09 -0800

It's a shame the stories aren't also available. I was at a flea market a few months ago, and found a guy selling a bunch of old pulp magazines, encased in plastic. I wasn't allowed to open them, so I picked one that had a promising cover. Unfortunately, it was unreadable. The writing was awful, and there was very little in the way of interesting graphics or charming retro advertisements. $12 better left unspent.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:18:55 -0800

On with the man of bronze!

By: mediareport

mediareport — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:52:39 -0800

I'm 12 again - this is great, crunchland. I had most of 1960s-70s Bantam reissues, so I went looking for those and found docsavage.org, which compares the two eras side by side.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:32:17 -0800

I used to love Doc Savage as a teenager. All of the novels are available digitally and clandestinely via the usual channels, if you are interested.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:24:57 -0800

Life is too short and there's far too much to read that is actually worth the time as it is...

By: ?!

?! — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:53:06 -0800

crunchland: which novel was it? mediareport: It would be interesting to look who is the owner of that domain, docsavage.info, docsavage.net , and, er, bookfilter.com. Then again, it may not be. stavrosthewonderchicken: All the novels? I know where the majority are located. For some reason he doesn't make a secret of it. You'd think he had an axe to grind against Conde Nast. And as long as we're mentioning the movie: Arnuld is scheduled to play Doc in a new version. (That's why Warner Brothers holds a few of the DocSavage website domains.) y2karl: Some, some of the Dent penned novels aren't that bad. Raymond Chandler even regarded Dent as a nifty writer. Though I wouldn't testify Chandler was speaking of the Doc novels. In case it wasn't obvious...those docsavage and bookfilter links above are self links. I just couldn't let mediareports link pass without mention.

By: debralee

debralee — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 04:48:46 -0800

Was this the predecessor to this?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:17:05 -0800

Thanks for that Blackmask link, ?! Nice. Also, check your email.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:40:51 -0800

which novel was it? Oh, it wasn't Doc Savage at all. I bought a copy of Amazing Stories, November, 1947. The cover story (and as it ended up, about 99% of the contents) was called The Giants of Mogo, by Don Wilcox.

By: ?!

?! — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:43:13 -0800

debralee: I believe it was an independent creation. In the Doc Savage stories Doc doesn't use mysticism. Though he did use a neck-pinch to render the "bad guys" helpless on occasion.

By: plep

plep — Sat, 28 Jun 2003 12:23:45 -0800

These are fab - thanks crunchland.