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LAND OF TERROR (Doc Savage #8) 1 review
Kenneth Robeson
Bantam, 1965
Super Reader
This is great. Some solo Doc action in an early car chase, and him vs 5 armed 'Squint'-led hoods.
A scientist friend of his deceased father, distintegration 'Smoke of Eternity' grenades (that you get to see employed), and a showdown on a dinosaur infested Thunder Island, off New Zealand.
Absolutely fabulous, in other words. Not to mention treed by Tyrannosaurs and pursued by Pterodactyls ...
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JADE OGRE, THE (Doc Savage)1 review
Kenneth Robeson
Bantam, 1992
Murray is better than Dent
This story is very authentic. Murray really has Dent nailed. The Jade Ogre is considerably longer than a Dent Doc Savage novel and is paced more sedately, but in almost every other way it reads like a Dent novel from about 1935. It does lack Dent's signature errors and sometimes muddled plotting, but these are not grave flaws.
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The Green Death (65)1 review
Kenneth Robeson
Bantam, 1971
Adventure seekers
Another in a long list of original pulp stories originally printed in the 30's and 40's reprinted by Bantam books in the 60's and 70's. Doc savage is a high adventurer that travels the globe solving fantastic mysteries, fighting evildoers and helping others. This story takes place in the South American jungles where Doc and his aides, 5 of the greatest minds ever gathered together, must solve the ...
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Doc Savage: The Sea Magician / The Living-Fire Menace (Doc Savage (Nostalgia Ventures))1 review
Kenneth Robeson
Nostalgia Ventures, 2007
Another Great Volume
Another great volume in this new reprint series. The Sea Magician is one of the all time best Docs with its moody start and fun finale. Living Fire Menace is one of the better Harold Davis ghost-written novels and a very unusual adventure.
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FORGOTTEN REALM, THE (Doc Savage Series)1 review
Kenneth Robeson
Spectra, 1993
Doc Savage is back
I grew up on Doc Savage and only recently found out about the series being continued and was very pleasantly surprized by the outcome. I am looking for the other books put out after this so I can buy them.
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Doc Savage 9: The Majii / the Golden Man (Doc Savage (Nostalgia Ventures))2 reviews
Kenneth Robeson
Nostalgia Ventures, 2007
One of Doc's best
The Majii is one of the all time best Doc Savage adventures and a great jump on point for new readers. Though the pulp cover pales in comparison to the magnificent Bama paperback version the added historical articles make up for it and the restoration is top notch from Mike Piper. The second offering, The Golden Man, contains extra material deleted from the original pulp and paperback versions. ...
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Doc Savage: The Polar Treasure and Pirate of the Pacific1 review
Kenneth Robeson, Will Murray
Nostalgia Ventures, 2007
Classic Tales from an Earlier Age
Too a large degree, the Doc Savage stories are an acquired taste. I was introduced during my tour in Iraq, when some blessed soul had sent, in a care package of books, several Doc Savage novels to my FOB. I recognized the name from my interest in pulps, and snagged them to read.
They're most assuredly something from an earlier age--jazz era racism and cultural attitudes jar with modern ...
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The Green eagle and the Devil's playground: Doc Savage, two complete adventures in one volume1 review
Kenneth Robeson
Bantam Books, 1983
Adventure seekers
This book contains 2 stories from the pulp era centering on Doc Savage. The 1st, "The Green Eagle", deals with a hidden treasure in gold discovered in the wild west. The second, The Devil's Playground", takes place futher north and involves an ancient Indian legend that quickly becomes a curse to all that oppose it.
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Doc Savage: Bequest Of Evil1 review
Kenneth Robeson
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007
Must read/have for all Doc Savage fans
Doc Savage: Bequest of Evil: what a delightful story and Monk is the center character. I wish the artist had done of sketch of Monk in his golf togs!!! I like the magazine format and really enjoyed the letters from the Doc Savage fans. I want to belong to the Doc Savage Club and get a pin. There is so much to like about the story and I can't tell you as it would ruin the story for you. ...
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Brand of the Werewolf / Fear Cay (Doc Savage, Vol. 13)1 review
Kenneth Robeson
Nostalgia Ventures, 2007
Meeting Pat Savage and Old Dan Thunden
What a wonderful combination! These two novels are some of the best or most important in the Doc Savage canon. In Werewolf we meet the beautiful, young, impetuous cousin of Doc, Patricia Savage. She would become the most famous recurring character in the series outside of the tightly-bound Band of Iron. You get an instant sense why in her first adventure, when she refuses to stay out of ...
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Man of Bronze 4 reviews
Kenneth Robeson
Bantam Books (Mm), 1979
The First Action Hero
From the 1933 pulp magazine.... Doc Savage is the original action hero. Raised by scientists as the world's most perfectly developed human, physically and mentally, he covers the world battling evil, searching for excitement and bloodcurdling adventure. In this origin story, he travels to Central America in search of his father's killers, and uncovers the most --- ah, you've got to read it ...
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Meteor Menace Savage 33 reviews
Kenneth Robeson
Bantam Doubleday Dell
Good Early Doc
Doc and his crew are asked to rescue a missing scientist from the bandit chief Mo-Gwei. The criminal mastermind has control of a strange object that robs men exposed to it of their motor functions turning them into raving madmen. Even stranger, Mo-Gwei can send this object out to hiunt down his enemies. Doc and the gang find themselves in mysterious Tibet trying to stop this latest threat to ...
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The man of bronze;: A Doc Savage adventure1 review
Kenneth Robeson
Golden Press, 1975
A rousing start to 181 adventures.
"There was death afoot in the darkness." And thus begins the 181 adventures of "The Man of Bronze; Doc Savage" as recorded in his pulp magazine series which first appeared in March 1933 and continued to 1949. (For the last few years, the mag was a quarterly.) In 1964 Bantam began re-issuing the stories in paperbacks, which ran for 26 years. In this initial adventure, Doc and his five cohorts ...
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Brand of the werewolf : a Doc Savage adventure 2 reviews
Kenneth Robeson
The mystery holds until the last few pages
As a fan of Doc Savage, I consider myself fortunate to have collected all of the Bantam Paperback reprints of the original 181 Doc Savage Magazines. Written by Lester Dent, under the pen name of Kenneth Robeson, the pulp magazine was published as a monthly beginning in 1933 to 1949. (For the last few years it was a quarterly.) In 1964, Bantam began their series of paperbacks, which ran for 26 ...
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The Man of Bronze / The Land of Terror (Doc Savage)3 reviews
Kenneth Robeson
Nostalgia Ventures, 2008
This is what fans have been wating for!
These editions are wonderful! They have the original pulp covers and the illustrations form the 1930's, so you get the flavor of the era. Plush the type is all reset and in a large and readable format. They blow the 1970's Bantam, editions out of the water!
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The Spook Legion And The Submarine Mystery (Doc Savage)1 review
Kenneth Robeson
Nostalgia Ventures, 2007
The Spook Legion and The Submarine Mystery
The Spook Legion is one of the best stories reprinted from the 181 original pulp series. This captures the 1930's. Monk and Ham almost steals the lead from Doc Savage in this story. The Submarine Mystery is also a fine follow up story. If you like the Doc Savage pulp series then this is a must have reprint.
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The Lost Oasis (Doc Savage Adventures, #6)4 reviews
Kenneth Robeson
Bantam Books
"Where are the Rats?"
A good read, but if you are looking for the Sargasso Sea of Legend...the Ravenous Rats, Fungus Infected Seamen, Slobbering creatures emerging from the wreckage to roam about the deck at night, Deranged Scientists...Sigh!.. I waited for the ships caught in the great whirlpool to appear out of the mists, their decks overrun with dimly viewed, undulating masses from the unknown.....Much to my ...
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Doc Savage 10: Dust of Death / The Stone Man (Doc Savage (Nostalgia Ventures))2 reviews
Kenneth Robeson, Will Murray
Nostalgia Ventures, 2007
Another great volume
Dust of Death was never on my list of favorite Doc Savage novels for a number of reasons, mostly because of the villain revelation and remnants of ghost writer Harold A. Davis' plotting. But this version, with nearly 5000 words of Lester Dent text restored after an overzealous editor hacked it out of the original pulp version, goes a long ways towards making this a much better Doc adventure. The ...
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The Thousand-Headed Man and The Gold Ogre (Doc Savage)1 review
Kenneth Robeson, Will Murray
Nostalgia Ventures, 2008
one of the first american superheros
reprint of the book, to bad marvel comic's don't make it in to a movie.
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Doc Savage: "Resurrection Day" and "Repel"7 reviews
Kenneth Robeson
Nostalgia Ventures, 2006
Two of the Best
These new Doc Savage and Shadow volumes get better and better with each issue. Not only are the two novels amongst the best in the series but cover reproduction of the original pulps is excellent and the bonus articles and material are worth the price alone. Highly recommend these to those who are long time Doc fans and those who have never had the pleasure of following the Man of Bronze on his ...
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