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Fabulous Find: Bantam Book’s Doc Savage series

Greg Turner — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:00:52 +0000

I have a confession to make! Yes, I am hooked on series characters. Comics, of course, but also books! I guess it stems from my elementary school days, when I read The Hardy Boys series, written under the house name of Franklin W. Dixon. In 1959, the series underwent extensive revisions and were reissued in…

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RETRO REVIEW: Doc Savage # 1

Greg Turner — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:00:38 +0000

It’s time for a non Marvel and non DC Comics RETRO REVIEW this week, so I’ve dug through my boxes and have pulled out this Gold Key / Western gem of a comic, Doc Savage # 1, from November 1966. It’s features a great James Bama cover of Doc battling a snake! Take a look:…

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Bantam Marvel Novels (1967 & 68)

Greg Turner — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:20:23 +0000

Hi, Greg Turner here, with Back To The Past Pop Culture TV, and I’d like to talk to you about those, by gone days, when the only thing featuring Marvel super-heroes were the comic books themselves. Or at least that was so until 1966 and 1967, when Lancer Books published six “Collector’s Albums”, reprinting some…

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