Awesome!

Why not just username in the title of the thread?

I think it's funnier with real names; since you asked me not to use yours because of people Googling you professionally, I figured to asterix would throw them off.

It's useless for searching. No offence, Jay.

I don't remember putting in the AmazWAN Canada and Britain links, but I'm glad I did. Now Robbie and one of our Canadian gys can get this and be in the cool super awesome pulp club with me, Jay, Gerry, and Wayne Osbourne, Esquire.

I'm glad you did too. And I'm glad you changed the thread title. You're doing great.

Added to my wish list! It's ironic that DC is publishing Marvel.

This one came out last summer, and it reprints the color Marvel monthly Doc Savage stories from the same era.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401227279/?tag=imwan-20

I thumbed through it, and there's a funny detail. DC publishes this book, because they purchased the Doc Savage publication rights. But those Marvel covers had the Marvel trade dress on them. So the covers in the book have what looks like a Marvel cover (even the Doc Savage emblem in the upper left), but they've removed the Marvel band from across the top. It's an odd thing to look at.

GUYS!

Linda said I'm doing "great"! Did you see?!

Eat it, Jay!

That color one only hs 17whatever pages... this Showcase has 448. It's a monster.

Jay and I are gonna have our Doc Savage and John Carter essentials on the same shelves, produly displayed next to each other. Right next to our Conan and Tarzan stuff.

We're going to call each other on the phone and look at our shelves at the same time and say, "Damn, it feels good to be in the super awesome pulp club. Fuck the liberals."

I don't really know where I'm going with this, but it feels epic.

I have some of those issue. Maybe DC should've just left the Marvel banner on.

With some photoshopping, they could have turned it into a DC banner.

It's too weird to see DC written on these.

See? And no one's the wiser. It's fucking simple.

Those Marvel Doc Savage comics were pretty brutal, but that cover rocks. I have that issue bagged and ready if I ever decide to stalk Ron Ely and force him by gunpoint to sign it for me.

I have that issue also. The first one, anyway.

Peter David wrote the intro to one of the first Nostalgia Press reprints (I've being buying them up off ebay), and he he's a complete fanboy. He says that back in the 1970's, they used to screen that Ron Ely movie at comic conventions. It was like this legendary movie that nobody had ever seen, and hardcore fans wanted to watch over and over.

Hell. I was living in Puerto Rico at the time (3rd Grade) the movie came out and we were still so isolated from the rest of the U.S. (TV still all in Spanish, for example) and got our movies and comics on a spotty basis. We didn't realize the DOC SAVAGE movie was a universally despised flop in the U.S. Me and my circle of friends and family all dug the movie and watched it repeatedly. lol

DIdn't realize how mock-worthy it was until I saw it again as an adult.

I don't know, the Ross Andru/Tom Palmer art was pretty good.

It's funny how as a kid you have no idea what movies are supposed to suck. I loved Superman IV.

Superman IV was my favorite movie for a few years after it came out.

This cover is the balls --




Also, re-done to look like this for the movie --

Doc is one of those characters that confounds me.

When I first learned of him, I loved the whole thing -- I like the concept, the name, and expecially the visual, as designed by James Bama. He might be one of the coolest looking costume-less characters ever, right alongside Conan.

But man, I was really let down when I finally got a copy of Man of Bronze in my hot little hands. Even the legendary John Sunlight tales left me fairly cold.

And the whole popularity thing confuses me -- I hear all the time about how popular he was; but Kenneth Robeson (or Lester Dent, whatever they're calling him now) doesn't seem to be up there with pulp legends like Howard or Burroughs. There wasn't a streeam of Doc movies, serials, comics, or anything else back in his hey-day -- in fact, the earliest comic seems to be from 1972 and is likely the indulgence of nostalgic editors and creators.

So if he was so popular, why is there a lack of anything except the pulp novels and a few short-lived comics?