I read Doc Savage books in High School and to be honest helped get me thru high school. I also believe much of who I am is because I wanted to be like him. He will always be my hero and I'm 62 yrs old. They just don't heros like that anymore. And there are those who believe there was a real Doc and his gang.
Doc Savage is one of my fave fictional heroes. I've read and collected several of the Bantam Books novels & enjoy both the Marvel Comics series & the 1975 Doc Savage movie starring Ron Ely.
Nice to see there's some Doc Savage fans left !!!!!!!!!! I like the Bama artwork better than the pulp version. Too bad somebody doesn't do a animated series with Bama style artwork. Now that would be great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did Indiana Jones seem like a Doc Savage clone. I saw the Doc Savage movie with Ron Ely in 74 I think. Hoped it's be a series. We need heroes again. They died with the 60's anti hero coming out. Heroes were always brave,strong, honest, someone to look up to. I miss those days.
All modern day superheroes can pay homage to Lester Dent aka Kenneth Robeson because they were all molded from the best crimefighter of all time: Doc Savage. I just wish they would make a cool movie that does him some justice. 🙏
I had the poster from Bantam Books, "Doc Savage Needs a New Shirt!" with the classic James Bama cover illustration from Bantam's first Doc Savage paperback.
Great video. The James Bama illustrations were staggering. The 70s Marvel black & white comic (Buscena, Dzugna,, Moench, Wein) was good. I have that series. Anote about Doc Savage is that the adventures were tied to that time period. I always though that Superman and the Batman movies would be better if they were set in the time in which they were created. I also heard Dwayne Johnson is slated to play Doc in a forthcoming movie.
A minor point, which I'm sure many know, the paperback illustration of Doc Savage shown at the beginning was posed for by Steve Holland, the 50s TV Flash Gordon.
Oh yeah I read that. James Bama and Boris Valejo were magnificent. And that Steve Holland Flash Gordon show was very interesting. They did some very quirking things with both space and time travel. The show was shot in West Germany, and most of the actors other than Flash, Dale and Dr. Zarkov had thick German accents.
@@anissueofursincerity it was the James Bama artwork for the Doc Savage Bantam paperbacks that first caught my eye. Man that was when l was in junior high back in the late 60s early 70s
From the Bama artwork I always imagined Doc as looking like a combination of Clint Eastwood and Johnny Cash with a face that looked like it was chiseled out of granite.
Just found your channel! Thanks for this! Doc Savage is one of my fave characters. I even like the 1975 Ron Ely Doc Savage movie. Hope you have a docu on The Shadow, and perhaps one on Nick Fury.
Jerry Seagle and Joe Shuster really took a lot of liberties when creating Superman. From Superman’s earth name being Clark, having a Fortress of Solitude found in the arctic, and even having a similar moniker like The Man of Steel instead of Doc Savage’s; The Man of Bronze. Both characters were even called The Man of Tomorrow. There have been rumblings in Hollywood that they plan on making a Doc Savage movie staring Dwayne The Rock Johnson as the titular Hero. The good news is that the film will be a period piece and may even be a jumping off point where the film makers may try to expand the potential franchise by introducing more Pulp heroes into the mix. I absolutely would love to see a Doc Savage film taking place in the 1930’s and 40’s with the inclusion of all Of Doc’s supporting characters like the Fab Five and the villains that go along with that. Doc Savage has so many great stories and adventures to pull from that if made by the right studio and the right producers and director, Doc Savage could be a really fun and cool movie that isn’t a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe or The DC Extended Universe. Unfortunately The Rock’s schedule is always jammed pack fuller projects and considering the fact that they are about to start filming Black Adam and a sequel to Shazam, I don’t think Doc Savage is going to get made anytime soon.
I saw the post about doc and fantastic 4 they also teamed up with Spiderman they never met but still teamed up. They caught the same vilian years apart. It was a good Spiderman and some of the best guest heros to have to help you.
How about Bulldog Drummond from 1920 onwards? After war (WW1), he found peace dull so he and his friends fought crime, as did later, a number of pulp heroes. Not a genius but a real tough guy, he had various adventures. Usually, no guns needed. In The Black Gang, he and his men in disguise were models for the later Shadow. They collected criminals and took them to a place where he and his men beat the bejabbers out of them, to reform them (no unlikely brain surgery). In the 1933 book Gladiator, a scientist gives his son super-strength and when grown up, he makes his own Fortress of Solitude.
HAS NO ONE SEEN NEW DOC SAVAGE MOVIE COMING?????? WITH THE ROCK... Loved the books as a kid, my father handed down his 60-70s reprints he collected as a kid.
Don't Know the actors me right off but the guy who played Captain America in Captain America and first 2 Avengers movies would be a much better Doc than the Rock. The guy that played Cap would keep it true to form where the rock would put his spin on it and ruin it. They are also talking about bringing him into our time. That would ruin the story. Because a lot of the things he used back then we're very futuristic. Like the automatic pistol that shot tranquilizer bullets. Tranquilizer balls to through in and knock someone out. If we modernize Doc we will ruin a piece of pulp and the beginning of comic book history.
Oddly enough doc savage created a gun that shot gas pellets that would put his opponents to sleep. While Doc himself rarely use the gun the fab five all had and used them. Sounds like another superhero connection; The Sandman.
Love Doc but the way he deals with criminals is rather questionable. In an ideal world a person would be a free agent to out of free will chooses to do good. Unfortunately too many free agents choose to use, harm and kill other free agents. Some people would rather be killed that have their mind manipulated.
@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat Free will and not be mind controlled. An argument can be made that excriminals are no longer a threat and are in fact contributing members of society. Sadly too many use their free will to do wrong.
One question I have of DS. If he is crazy rich with money coming in from gold mines and the like why can't he afford new clothes. Always seen in rags. LOL. DS the original superman.
Lester Dent (Kenneth Robson) Also copied himself by making a Doc Savage twin The Avenger know as Richard Henry Benson they also called him the Man of Steel he always wore gray cloths had facial paralysis so his face never changed expression pale gray skin and gray hair thus looked like a steel statue and he had his fab five aides as well , super rich as he was a millionaire before he started fighting crime to Avenge the murder of his wife and daughter, yhe shock of their deaths caused his hair to go whiteish gray and froze his face.
