tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post4340851918859025019..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Monday Morning Digest Magazine: Doc Savage, October 1946James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-40945616893309013252014-03-31T22:08:35.648-05:002014-03-31T22:08:35.648-05:00Jonathan, I remember when you visited the Windy Ci...Jonathan, I remember when you visited the Windy City Pulp show for a couple hours and bought those DOC SAVAGE pulps. Hope to see you again this year. You can never have too many books or pulps!Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-5586423521073497402014-03-31T21:00:38.054-05:002014-03-31T21:00:38.054-05:00James and all you pulpsters, I bought a nice long ...James and all you pulpsters, I bought a nice long comics box of Doc's at the Windy a few years back and most of them were pulp size and from 1938 or so, but a bunch of them are digest from the 40's and I'm with you guys on the reading, much better tales. What the hey, they only cost me 5 bucks each, not the greatest shape, but readers. I read them one old then one from the end of the run, good stuff!Jonathan G. Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00023056133113662703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-70842942684506215502014-03-31T19:46:24.523-05:002014-03-31T19:46:24.523-05:00That's an excellent point Walker makes on the ...That's an excellent point Walker makes on the pre- and post-war pulp readers that had never occurred to me. Some of those later digest Lester Dent entries in the series are Dent's unsold mainstream detective novels retooled as Doc adventures. I enjoy the sparse, breathless style of the early tales but sort of prefer these later, more adult stories. Stephen Mertznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-19721667870119170552014-03-31T15:42:22.322-05:002014-03-31T15:42:22.322-05:00JDM? Wow, I need it.JDM? Wow, I need it.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-3565390915358333872014-03-31T15:36:02.431-05:002014-03-31T15:36:02.431-05:00Walker,
As I recall, there's a John D. MacDona...Walker,<br />As I recall, there's a John D. MacDonald story in this very issue. I've also heard that the editor (Babette Rosmond?) asked JDM to ghost one of the Doc Savage stories but that he turned it down. Might have been interesting. Doc as an early version of Travis McGee (Doc was born on a boat, after all) and Monk as Meyer.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-4487753146857281812014-03-31T10:06:43.240-05:002014-03-31T10:06:43.240-05:00Has anyone else noticed something about the post w...Has anyone else noticed something about the post war hero pulps? After WW II, the returning vets were not kids anymore and the hero pulp editors made an attempt to upgrade the quality of the stories to a more adult level. <br /><br />I'm not just talking about the lead novels starring Doc or the Shadow, but the short stories and novelets in the back of the magazine. John D. Macdonald, after his discharge in 1946, was an example of the better quality stories appearing in the Street & Smith digests. These two titles became more of a mystery or crime fiction magazine rather than the standard hero pulp, at least during 1946-1949. <br /><br />By 1950 the hero pulp was just about dead except for a couple titles like The Phantom Detective. No new titles made their appearance in the fifties except for a couple exceptions like Captain Zero and Sheena, which were not successful. <br /><br />When the paperbacks took over, they continued the move toward more adult fiction, as did the crime and SF digests.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com