The Lost Oasis/The Sargasso Ogre (Doc Savage (Nostalgia Ventures)) [Paperback]

Lester Dent (Author), Kenneth Robeson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2008 | Series: Doc Savage (Nostalgia Ventures) (Book 7)

A Doc Savage Adventure

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Nostalgia Ventures (March 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932806717
• ISBN-13: 978-1932806717
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2 more classic Doc Savage novels in this new reprint series, April 1, 2009

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Michael R. Brown (Tamarac, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Oasis/The Sargasso Ogre (Doc Savage (Nostalgia Ventures)) (Paperback)

Nostalgia Ventures and Anthony Tollin have teamed up to do a comprehensive reprint of several Street & Smith pulp heroes. At present, they are doing double reprints of The Shadow and Doc Savage. Shortly, they will start new series reprinting The Avenger and The Whisperer. All have complete pulp texts (no edits or removals, like past reprints), tho reset so its easier to read, the original illustrations, reprinted covers (one is used as the cover of the book, but both original pulp covers are shown on the back), and several additional articles and additions.

Hopefully, they can succeed to reprinting all these characters in these new editions, they are all excellent.

While all the Doc Savage novels were reprinted by Bantam, for those (like me) who have these reprints, the reason for getting these new volumes is the chance to read the original stories (WITHOUT the editing that occured in the Bantams, including in a few rare cases a LOT of text), see the original illustrations and covers, and the great additional articles.

This volume (#7 in their series) reprints "the Lost Oasis" (Sept 33) and "the Sargasso Ogre" (Oct 33). We get the cover of "The Lost Oasis" as the cover of this volume, and both original pulp covers are on the back.

"The Lost Oasis" deals with both a lost dirigible and a lost oasis, slavers and the like.

"The Sargasso Ogre" deals with pirates and amazons in the Sargasso Sea.

Extras in this volume include:

An Intermission article by pulp historian Will Murray, on the writing of these 2 stories AND a reprint of the Doc Savage daily comic strip samples that where done and based on "The Sargasso Ogre". These strip samples had previously been shown in Millenium Comic's "Manual of Bronze".

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Danger and excitement abound!, February 3, 2010

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timothyp (CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Lost Oasis/The Sargasso Ogre (Doc Savage (Nostalgia Ventures)) (Paperback)

The Lost Oasis

This book started slowly for me because of the somewhat odd circumstances that begin the story. But it got better and better as the plot developed. Plenty of interesting and exciting events took place, and by the end, my attention was rapt, as seems to be the case when I read any Doc Savage adventure.

The Sargasso Ogre

Will Murray says that this was Lester Dent's personal favorite Doc story. After reading it, I can't say that it's my favorite, but it was certainly fun. In this story, the slowest part for me was the middle portion. But the beginning and final chunks contained plenty of motion and intrigue.

Despite the slow parts, this is as good as adventure stories get, and so I still give it a 5-star rating. Even the slow parts have more motion to them than other fiction.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader, June 11, 2008

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Oasis (Doc Savage) (Kindle Edition)

Here's a fun jungle adventure. We have a fair of evil slavers, a lost airship, a beautiful aviatrix, a diamond mine full of slaves (ok, so that is pretty standard, even today). In this Lost Oasis there are also a large number of venomous vampires, and carnivorous plants that can happily handle vultures and larger.

Doc and Rennie are happily minding their own business in Manhattan when they notice a reward being offered for Doc's whereabouts, of a million dollars. Something is up, they learn, clearly, and end up on the trail of the clearly captured aviatrix.

Flight, African action, danger, capture, and breakout all happen at breakneck speed afterwards.


3.5 out of 5