The Man of Bronze Reprinted
Thanks to Groovy Age of Horror (NSFW) for hepping me to these new Doc Savage reprints, that feature not only the fabulous Bantam paperback-cover artwork of James Bama pictured above, but also the original cover art and interior illustrations from Street & Smith's Doc Savage Magazine, published in the 1930s and '40s. I'll definitely be picking up a copy of Fortress of Solitude, my favorite Doc adventure.
I had 20-30 of the Bantam paperbacks when I was a kid, and I used to read them during lunch at school until my evil bitch of a 5th-grade teacher, Miss George, took them away from me and wouldn't give them back. My mother was furious with her, and asked her how she, as a teacher, could justify doing something to discourage a child from reading. I've always been grateful for how she stuck up for me against such a petty classroom tyrant.
Bite me, Miss George.
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Comments
i recall seeing the doc savage movie on tv when i was like 6 years old.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072886/
i'll have to track that down and see if it stands up after 30+ years.
Posted by: johnny dollar | May 15, 2008 8:34 AM
Don't bother unless you're just looking for a laugh. It's awful. They went for a '60s Batman kind of camp feel, and completely missed the mark. One of George Pal's worst films.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | May 15, 2008 9:56 AM
This hero needs a better tailor - his shirts falls so quickly apart ...
Posted by: orangeguru | May 15, 2008 3:26 PM
Just think of him as the Pre-Shatner.
Posted by: Mr. Bali Hai | May 15, 2008 10:05 PM
Our high school library had maybe 20 or 30 of those paperbacks, which I read a couple of times. They were great pulp fiction. I remember everybody having almost-Homerian epithets: golden-flecked eyes, fists like hams, a roar like a bull base fiddle, etc.
Posted by: zmjezhd | May 16, 2008 4:48 PM
Yeah, for a hack writer, Lester Dent certainly had a way with a metaphor, didn't he?
Posted by: Mr. Bali Hai | May 16, 2008 5:45 PM