The Official Doc Savage Thread

[C. Lee]

 

[Showtime]

Wow Morg, those are awesome shots.

I am going to have to find somebody to make me a wallpaper or myspace background.

 

[Showtime]

The Irony of it all.

 

[The BatDude]

I love all those Pulp Heroes even if I haven't read any of they're stuff. My knowledge of them comes from Wiki. So what do you guys recommend reading?

 

[C. Lee]

I love all those Pulp Heroes even if I haven't read any of they're stuff. My knowledge of them comes from Wiki. So what do you guys recommend reading?

I love them all too.....but the easiest to find is Doc Savage. All of his original 181 adventures have been republished as paperback books. They can easily be found in used book stores or on ebay.

Next would probably be the Shadow. There were a lot more original stories published, but less of them republished. Currently Nostalgia Press (I'll check and get their website address) is reprinting both Doc and the Shadow in nice large size papercover books. Each reprints two pulp stories with the artwork that originally appeared in them. The Nostalgia Press also reprints other pulp magazines.

A character similar to the Shadow called The Spider has had stories republished in paperback...as have G8-and his Battle Aces.

 

[Showtime]

This thread is on fire.

 

[C. Lee]

Doc and his crew carry "machine pistols".....they can be set for single shot or full auto....they have large magazines, and different mags carry different projectiles (regular bullets,explosive shells, knockout shots, etc....). This was ahead of it's time for 1933.

Here is a nice drawing that Jim Steranko did of one.

 

[The BatDude]

I love them all too.....but the easiest to find is Doc Savage. All of his original 181 adventures have been republished as paperback books. They can easily be found in used book stores or on ebay.

Next would probably be the Shadow. There were a lot more original stories published, but less of them republished. Currently Nostalgia Press (I'll check and get their website address) is reprinting both Doc and the Shadow in nice large size papercover books. Each reprints two pulp stories with the artwork that originally appeared in them. The Nostalgia Press also reprints other pulp magazines.

A character similar to the Shadow called The Spider has had stories republished in paperback...as have G8-and his Battle Aces.

Thanks for the help C. Lee t: I'll be glad if I could at least get my hands on Shadow and Doc Savage. Phantom Detective is the other guy I what to catch up with besides The Spider. Some Sci-fi wouldn't hurt either.

 

[3dman27]

if you like pulpstyle heroes the was a book in paperback called weird heroes that had pulpstyle hero novellas

 

[Hunter Rider]

I love them all too.....but the easiest to find is Doc Savage. All of his original 181 adventures have been republished as paperback books. They can easily be found in used book stores or on ebay.

Next would probably be the Shadow. There were a lot more original stories published, but less of them republished. Currently Nostalgia Press (I'll check and get their website address) is reprinting both Doc and the Shadow in nice large size papercover books. Each reprints two pulp stories with the artwork that originally appeared in them. The Nostalgia Press also reprints other pulp magazines.

A character similar to the Shadow called The Spider has had stories republished in paperback...as have G8-and his Battle Aces.

I really wish i could find some of the Shadow,Amazon doesn't even recognize it when i search

 

[3dman27]

try writing "the shadow pulp novels"

 

[Showtime]

Doc and his crew carry "machine pistols".....they can be set for single shot or full auto....they have large magazines, and different mags carry different projectiles (regular bullets,explosive shells, knockout shots, etc....). This was ahead of it's time for 1933.

Here is a nice drawing that Jim Steranko did of one.

Very nice post. I now need to find a way to incorporate this into the script. Interesting.

 

[C. Lee]

if you like pulpstyle heroes the was a book in paperback called weird heroes that had pulpstyle hero novellas

I've got them.....I believe 8 books were published in all. They were short stories or the occasional full length novel. They had art made for the stories scattered throughout the book like in the pulps.

 

[C. Lee]

Thanks for the help C. Lee t: I'll be glad if I could at least get my hands on Shadow and Doc Savage. Phantom Detective is the other guy I what to catch up with besides The Spider. Some Sci-fi wouldn't hurt either.

Glad to be of help. I'm glad to hear others like the pulps....we can start throwing info on all of them in here.

 

[3dman27]

I've got them.....I believe 8 books were published in all. They were short stories or the occasional full length novel. They had art made for the stories scattered throughout the book like in the pulps.

seven more volumes of weird heroes ?EXCELLENT now i have something to look for at waldenbooks

 

[C. Lee]

seven more volumes of weird heroes ?EXCELLENT now i have something to look for at waldenbooks

This says that they recently reprinted the first one....but not sure about the others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Heroes

 

[3dman27]

thanks for the info c.lee i'll keep looking

 

[3dman27]

i didnt know mr preiss had died
my condolenses to his family

 

[C. Lee]

i didnt know mr preiss had died
my condolenses to his family

I hadn't heard either until I read that. I still have the Sci Fi Illustrated mags he put out in the 70's too. He was a man out of time....be sadly missed.

 

[Showtime]

At this point, if casting were to start tomorrow, who would you cast as Doc Savage in a feature film?

 

[3dman27]

macconnehey[sp]?
what i wanna know is who'd be lt. commander andrew blogget mayfair MONK?

 

[Showtime]

I thought about Matthew Mcconaughey...

He is not bad...

 

[Showtime]

Josh Lucas...

 

[Showtime]

He really has the Doc Savage look to me...

 

[C. Lee]

He really has the Doc Savage look to me...

Not getting a picture. Who is it?

I personally wouldn't consider either Lucas or McConauhey.....both good actors, but not big enough for Doc.