At the 2010 Pulpfest, Will Murray announced he had inked a contract to produce seven new Doc Savage novels. In the 1990s, Murray published several Doc Savage novels for Bantam under the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson. He announced the new novels will...
Let's face it. You picked up that first copy of Doc Savage and looked at the cover...you said "Cool", "Neato", or "Far Out" (depending on your age)...but you were sold when you read that blurb on the back. That's what made you rush home to read your first Doc Savage. And we've interviewed* the man that wrote most of those one-paragraph classics....
The one shot comic combining the worlds of Doc Savage and Batman has arrived. Titled First Wave Begins, the comic has the pair meet and come to, let's say, an understanding. Set just after Doc's father dies, and early in the career of the Bat-Man, the comic lets the reader see what Brian Azzarello plans to do with the characters. Based on his notes (presented after the comic), Azzarello shows a good understanding of Doc* and his crew. Not to mention a few other pulp characters you might know. This is it. Doc Savage makes his return to DC Comics, and crashes right into Gotham’s protector, The Batman. Noir mastermind Brian Azzarello teams with artist Phil Noto to present a gritty and shadowy version of the DCU, where thugs are at every corner, corruption runs deep and even the heroes reside in a gray area of morality. Doc Savage has heard only bad things about The Batman, Gotham’s violent new vigilante, but what can he do to stop him? Check out some more pages from this issue, a vital prologue to the upcoming FIRST WAVE mini-series from Azzarello and artist Rags Morales. -- Alex Segura, The Source • * - Even to his understanding that Doc must be "mixed race." What? You didn't know?
No, Phillip Jose Farmer didn't already give us Doc's birthday. He just looked at a old notebook. He didn't do the research. On the other hand we did. And we can tell you that Doc's birthday is....absolutely in this article.
Harry Knowles (Ain't it Cool News) recently spoke to Shane Black (Lethal Weapon) : "When I asked him what he was working on, he shocked me with the revelation that he was going to be writing a script for DOC SAVAGE, which Orci & Kurtzman (those STAR TREK, EAGLE EYE, TRANSFORMERS guys) were producing." Of course, that set Flearun abuzz. There's more speculation at SlashFilm.com (Shane Black Scribing a Doc Savage Movie for Star Trek Producers) and FilmSchoolRejects.com (Shane Black Bringing ‘Doc Savage’ Back To The Big Screen?) In the tradition of Doc Savage newsgroups, here's my cast (at least, who I'd pick this afternoon): Doc: Jason Statham Monk: Phillip Seymour Hoffman Ham: Christian Bale Johnny: Neil Patrick Harris Renny: Mekhi Phifer Long Tom: Jim Sturgess Doc's Father: Bruce Willis Patricia Savage: Liv Tyler Female Lead: Claire Danes Antagonist: Tim Roth
Editor's Note: For over 10 years and 20,000+ messages, the Flearun group has discussed all that is Doc Savage. From plots, themes, authors, illustrators, to what is, and is not, canon. Recently, news of Doc Savage at a central part of a new DC comic series sparked discussion about comics changing the beloved character. Member Mark J. Golden had a well-written take that he agreed to republish here...
An intelligent, beautiful women with a sexy French accent enters your life... sounds like the start of a fairy tale, but when the sentence continues...and she loves reading Doc Savage as much as you do... you start looking around for Candid Camera. That really happened to me, and she was kind enough to give me a list of the Doc novels published in French and their original titles. (PS: She also married me. So it was a fairy tale...)
It's mentioned in a few Doc Savage novels that Doc was an able musician. Few know he had a series of bands. We have a pair of items from one of those groups...
The text below was written on the sixth anniversary of the Hidalgo Trading Company, the site I started in September 1996. It’s now almost 13 years of running a Doc Savage site. Some years were lean as Catherine and I spent more time raising the next generation Doc fan, but I’m looking forward to continuing [...]
I just may get the majority of this site back online by Pulpfest. Are you going? I wish I could....
Yes, this is Doc Savage Organized. We’re in the middle of a complete reorganization. It’s going to take awhile. Check back…see what has changed. We’ll let you know when we’re finished.
Riches beyond the wealth of kings were within the evil grasp of The Midas Man. His very thoughts were worth criminal millions -- no man could escape his evil device. But he hadn't counted on the power for good of Doc Savage!
