Savage Tales

THE EXPLORER'S GUILD VOLUME ONE by JON BAIRD with KEVIN COSTNER and STEPHEN MEYER  Illustrated by RICK ROSS The 2015 novel, The Explorers Guild is a beautiful book written by ...

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SEVEN TIGERS Art - Mike Fyles JULY 17, 1934 The first tiger surprised Helene Vaughn. The young aviatrix was trying on outfits in a small dressing room at the Robinson’s department ...

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THE CLARK TYLER In the spirit of my pulp adventure hero, Clark Tyler, I have created a cocktail in his honor. Try one next time you're reading a pulp or listening to your favorite radio drama...

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November 1936 - Resurrection Day Resurrection Day is a unique Doc Savage adventure for many reasons. The tale begins when Doc's five men print an announcement in all the nations' morning ...

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Well - Life has interrupted this blog…. While I haven’t been posting, I still have been reading (slowly) more Doc Savage stories. Here are some mini reports… THE MIDAS MAN - AUGUST 19...

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   July 1936 - The Black Spot The Black Spot starts while Pat Savage is attending a costume party with a mobster theme at the ritzy Vandersleeve estate in tony Westchester. The party i...

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Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi by Rob MacGregor There is a great used book store called Movie World in downtown Burbank that stocks a mountain of books including plenty of Science Fi...

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June 1936 - The Haunted Ocean The Haunted Ocean is another Laurence Donovan tale, this time with a lofty villian's goal: Defeating all the world's armies and using his own to enforce worl...

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 Plugged Nickel Playing Cards  My friend Matt Drake has created a bitchin' pair of playing cards decks with an undead west theme. I really like these and have ordered on kickstarter al...

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THE GREEN LAMA: SCIONS  by Adam Lance Garcia Adam Garcia's third Green Lama tale is a terrific addition to the saga. Scions (and planned future books) are published by Moonstone Books an...

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The New Adventures of Foster Fade - Pro Se Press - Digital and Print I picked up this volume of pulp tales featuring one of Lester Dent's lesser known characters for a few reasons. One, I...

http://docsavagetales.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-return-of-foster-fade.html

Death Note is a great Manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata that has spawned anime, video games and live action movies in Japan. Shane Black and his wri...

http://docsavagetales.blogspot.com/2013/10/pulp-of-week-death-note.html

The  Seven Agate Devils - May 1936 This Doc adventure has a couple of firsts - Doc in Los Angeles for an extended period and a bald femme fatale. The story involves a series of killings ...

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I saw this on the way to work today. It seems there is a new product on the market called Man Litter... For the man on the go. As it turns out, this is an ad for adult swim... I saw it an...

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Doc Savage Comic Books are on the way. Again. Doc has appeared in may comic book series, most recently in well meant, but not well received run from DC. Doc first appeared in comics in the ...

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The Astounding, The Amazing, and The Unknown by Paul Malmont   Following up on the terrific Chinatown Deathcloud Peril (CDP), Paul Malmont has written an equally good, if not better novel...

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THE MEN WHO SMILED NO MORE APRIL 1936 The Men Who Smiled No More is a very different Doc Savage tale for a number of reasons. It takes place entirely in New York state. It does not invo...

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ELYSIUM and THE UNSUSTAINABLE FUTURE The  following essay is not intended to be a review of Elysium (which I liked quite a bit) but rather an exploration of the themes and events in the f...

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The Metal Master - March 1936 WARNING - EXTRA SPOILERIFIC! Bring on the super-science! There are no charlatans here, this stuff is all real. This supersaga begins with a young woman esc...

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JOYLAND is Stephen King's new novel from Hardcase Crime. This paperback original tells the tale of Devin Jones, a college student who gets a summer job at a small seaside amusement park (the...

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Doc Savage: Skull Island by Will Murray BASED ON A CONCEPT BY COVER ARTIST JOE DEVITO The new Doc Savage novel by Will Murray contains a record number of authorized firsts for the charac...

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Cthulhu Wars! Cthulhu Wars is a game of epic struggle as the Great Old Ones clash to determine which one rules the Earth. No matter the outcome, it seems that humanity loses. The game is ...

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 . It is amazing how time flows forward,  either taking all of us for a ride, or leaving us in its wake. I'm not sure what happened, but I have taken a lot of pictures for articles that n...

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2013 PULP FACTORY AWARDS ANNOUNCED For the fourth consecutive year, the Pulp Factory Awards were presented at this year’s Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention. These awards are given t...

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MYSTERY UNDER THE SEA - FEBRUARY 1936 This adventure starts with another great Doc Savage story opener. A fully clothed man comes ashore on Long Island Sound and refuses help. He manages ...

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