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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (Doc Savage (DC Comics))

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With DC now holding the comic book rights to Doc Savage, they are putting out some collections of previous comic book version.

Personally, I think this is probably the worse of the comic book versions of Doc Savage. It was done by Marvel Comics in the early 70s and ran 8 issues. What they did for this series was create adaptations of Doc novels, one novel running over 2 issues. So the novels they adopted were "Man of Bronze", "Death in Silver" (Oct 34), "Monsters" (Apr 34), "Brand of the Werewolf" (Jan 34).

While the adaptations were decent, and it was nice they noticed that Lester Dent was the name of the real author, the artwork is the issue. The version of the Doc aides aren't too good, but Doc is the worse. They decked him out in a small blue vest (one issue made it a blue FURRY vest) and white jungle slacks. Very impractical, but a poor decision. The bad artwork makes enjoying the story hard.

I'm not sure how much other Doc series DC might reprint. I'd like to see them reprint the Marvel black & white Doc Magazine, or the later Doc comics done by Millennium & Dark Horse, which were pretty good.

I own many of the original Marvel Doc Savages from the 1970's. How nice to have a volume that gathers them together like this so I don't get greasy fingerprints on my collectibles. These are moderately faithful adaptations of the original Robeson books and they keep 1930's as the era for Doc (an essential thing in my opinion if you're reading DC Comics). Still, this graphic novel cannot compare with the actual Doc stories. Please seek them out and read them if you never have.