Fans of the Doc Savage Series will want to read another of Lester Dent's novels, The Golden Vulture. Part of The Shadow series, it was Dent's first for Street and Smith and won him the Doc Savage contract. It's been republished, and we have the ordering information inside...
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
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...)
There is a reason I've always used such an odd title for the novel entries. Each title is preceded by two codes. The first four characters are the Bantam entry number for the novels I made 15 years (or so) ago. The Bantam number, and where needed, a letter signifying the book is part of a double or omnibus. The next five characters are the month and year the original was published. (Or season where applicable.) In Movabletype I could easily hide the code when publishing the title. I'm working on learning to do that now that I use Wordpress. It will all make better sense when I reformat all my lists for the new design...
Most Doc fans know the force behind Kenneth Robeson was Lester Dent. Mr. Dent didn't write every Doc story, but he could have. The man was a Writing Machine. He had a secret to writing so quickly, a secret he shares with us.
Doc Savage made it to the radio three times: 1934-35, 1943, and 1985. Inside is a list of the episodes culled from numerous sources....
On the back of every Bantam published reprint of the Doc Savage novels were a few lines that answered the question, “Who is Doc Savage?” To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing co-adventurers — the five greatest brains ever assembled in one [...]
Obviously, the upgrade didn't happen as planned. However, I'm back to it and hope to finish by Pulpfest.
A shipwrecked lunatic, a mysterious cavern, and a plump little man with a fear of fire lead Doc on his strangest and most legendary adventure ever -- straight to the gates of hell itself!
When an eccentric young millionaire suddenly starts predicting the future with unerring accuracy, Doc has to find out how and why fast -- because the next prediction is of his own death!
In a secret fortress high in the Andes, Doc and his crew are enslaved by a race of extrasensory super-blondes who worship a strange green stone with a life of its own!
Yes, this and the post below shall soon disappear. We’ve finally started updating the site. We’ll be finished by the end of January…. We hope.