Polishing Up the Man of Bronze
Let's take a trip backwards in time to when I was a young pup devouring the amazing adventures of Doc Savage. Back then, I had no idea that the paperbacks I was reading were reissues of a pulp magazine series from the 1930s. I just knew that I loved the action-packed prose of Lester Dent (I didn't care that it was totally formulaic), and those incredibly realistic James Bama illustrations on the covers were the graphic icing on the literary cake.
Doc also made appearances in comics, radio serials, and a totally crap film produced by the otherwise wonderful George Pal, who tried to camp it up a la Adam West's Batman. A new film starring Ah-nuld Schwarzenegger was rumored to be in the works a couple of years ago, but I guess his new duties as the Governator put a crimp in that.
Thanks to the Cartoonist for linkable inspiration
Comments
Doc Savage was one of the notable characters lightly borrowed in Warren Ellis's "Planetary". Planetary is fantastic, you should definitely check it out.
Posted by: rone | October 27, 2004 6:27 PM
I'm pretty sure you've mentioned Ellis to me before. One of these days I'll remember to check him out.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 27, 2004 8:34 PM
I can imagine a lot of things - but I certainly can't imagine an Austrian Doc Savage!
Posted by: The Cartoonist | October 30, 2004 5:13 AM
I agree. It's just as well that this new movie never happened. I think it would've been terrible.
My worst nightmare is that Tim Burton will make a Doc Savage film and cast Marky Mark as the Man of Bronze...:-P
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 30, 2004 9:33 AM
Holy Cow! I'll be superamalgamated...
Posted by: The Cartoonist | October 31, 2004 10:35 AM
wasn't there a character in the Doc Savage books who had a pet pig named Habeus Porkus?
Posted by: monk | November 2, 2004 4:54 PM
Close. It was Habeus Corpus...he belonged to the character named...wait for it...Monk!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | November 2, 2004 5:14 PM