#Kenneth Robeson | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

driveintheaterofthemind · 3 months

Text

Doc Savage (Jan1938)

Art by Emery Clarke

Street And Smith

#Pulp #Doc Savage #Pulp Heroes #Emery Clarke #Street And Smith #Vintage #Magazines #Art #Original Art #Before And After #Kenneth Robeson #Pulp Art #Pulp Illustration #1938 #1930s #30s

101 notes · View notes

all-action-all-picture · 24 days

Text

Letters page from Marvel's Doc Savage No. 1, October 1972. As it was the first issue they used it to give a profile of Doc and his 'Fabulous Five'. Art by Ross Andru and Jim Mooney.

#marvel #doc savage #1972 #lester dent #kenneth robeson #ross andru #jim mooney

12 notes · View notes

captainfreelance1 · 7 months

Text

I painted this watercolor of Pulp Hero Doc Savage last year, he is the inspiration for modern Several Super Heroes; Since debut in 1934 Doc Savage captivated audiences with his adventures in Pulp Magazines, Novels, Comics, Radio and Film, It's safe to say The Man of Bronze has withstood the test of Time.

#Doc Savage #Man of Bronze #Pulp Magazines #Pulps #Clark Savage #Watercolors #Clark Savage Jr #Pulp Fiction #Pulp Heroes #Street & Smith #Two-Fisted Pulps #Kenneth Robeson #Lester Dent #Traditional Art #Watercolor Illustration #Watercolor Art #Proto Super Heroes

5 notes · View notes

kekwcomics · 1 year

Text

THE BRONZE GAZETTE Fanzine Vol. 11 No. 34 (Green Eagle Publications, 2002)

"The Fan of Bronze"

Art: Bob Larkin

The BRONZE GAZETTE is still going, I'm glad to report!

51 notes · View notes

buzzdixonwriter · 4 months

Text

Doc Savage

For two generations of young readers — the original pulp fans of the 1930s and 40s followed by the reprint fans of the 1960s and 70s — Doc Savage remains not only an iconic figure but a template for all adventure heroes who came after.

Doc and his team — the ape-like chemist Monk Mayfair, his rival attorney Ham Brooks, construction engineer Renny Renwick, electrical engineer Long Tom Roberts, archeologist / geologist Johnny Littlejohn — inspired such diverse teams as Captain Future and his crew, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Fantastic Four, the crew of the Enterprise, Buckeroo Banzai’s Hong Kong Cavaliers (many of whom, we must be fair to observe, executed the formula fair more successfully than Doc and his crew), and Team Venture.

Doc also proved a direct inspiration (read “rip off”) of several key concepts later popularized by Superman, including “the man of bronze” vs “the man of steel” and first use of an arctic Fortress of Solitude for those times when he just needed a break from adventuring.

There have been radio serials, comic books, movies (one by producer George Pal, another by teen fans in the 1970s), and a heart-breaking number of announced but never made media projects, including a serial (eventually rewritten as Fighting Devil Dogs) and abortive TV projects (including a proposed animated series by Ruby-Spears that went so far afield of the original concept that it’s a blessing it got shelved after early development).

So what makes the character so fascinating?

He represents an ideal embodiment of the ultimate of humanity abilities. Unlike Superman (born or another planet) or other superheroes (either mutants or enhanced by some form of magic or super-science), Doc’s abilities are the result of his father’s relentless training regimen for him since birth. He’s a brilliant polymath in all sciences (a legit doctor with and MD plus a plethora of PhDs), a fluent linguist in virtually all languages including ancient Mayan and American Sign Language, a skilled mimic and disguise artist, an expert martial artist and judo master (this at a time when martial arts were virtually unknown in America), plus a pilot / sailing master as well as a world renown philanthropist.

The only thing he isn’t is genuinely human, and from the very beginning there’s an unspoken yet nonetheless present undercurrent in all his adventures that his frantic activity is pretty much a defense against admitting he really has no inner personal life.

Over the next several months (probably years) I’m going to recap the Doc Savage novels as re-published by Bantam Books in the 1960s. Their covers by James Bama probably did more to cement Doc’s iconic appeal than the stories themselves, creating the look that every succeeding interpretation has followed. While Bantam eventually reprinted all the original pulp stories, they didn’t do so in order of publication; I will add that to help you understand the development of the character and series.

#Doc Savage #Lester Dent #Kenneth Robeson #pulps #science fiction #adventure

2 notes · View notes

smbilodeau · 7 months

Text

Meteor Menance

Finished reading (aloud, to my spouse) "Meteor Menace" by Kenneth Robeson (Doc Savage #3)

Doc and his crew are in South America for a hospital dedication when a new menace appears: a blue meteor that steals people's minds! The trail leads to TIbet, and danger and a fiancé for Doc?!?

1930s pulp fiction that still provides gripping drama and fun.

Enjoyed it thoroughly.

#book review #meteor menace #kenneth robeson #doc savage #vintage pulp

0 notes

sheltiechicago · 2 years

Photo

The Grand International Hotel

Artist Creates Very Detailed Scary Images And The More You Look, The More Frightening They Become

Jeff Lee Johnson grew up in rural Minnesota, in a house filled with books by authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kenneth Robeson, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clark. Since his mom would draw and paint, she provided him with an endless supply of materials, tools, and patient instructions so that he could portray his imagination, fueled by their stories.

#jeff lee johnson #artist #grand international hotel #scary images #frightening #minnesota #illustration #illustrator #art

68 notes · View notes

pulpsandcomics2 · 2 years

Photo

The Red Skull by Kenneth Robeson (Bantam, 1967)

#mystery novel #doc savage

31 notes · View notes

therogerclarkfanclub · 2 years

Text

★ Roger's Audiobooks (I—L) ★

UPDATED: March 28, 2023

If Audible isn't your thing, Roger's audiobooks can also be found at these other sites but selection varies from site to site:

Apple Books ☆ Audible ☆ Audiobooks.com ☆ AudioBooksNow.com ☆ AudiobookStore.com ☆ Barnes & Noble ☆ Binge Books ☆ Chirp Books ☆ Downpour ☆ Everand ☆ Google Play ☆ Hoopla ☆ Libro.fm ☆ Overdrive + Libby ☆ Rakuten Kobo ☆

Links to more of Roger's Audiobooks:

A-D ☆ E-H ☆ I-L ☆ M-P ☆ Q-T ☆ U-Z

··································⋆⋅⋆⋅☆⋅⋆⋅⋆··································

BOOK SERIES: "Inspector Kenny Mystery" by Eilís Dillon • Death at Crane’s Court (Vol. 1) • Death in the Quadrangle (Vol. 2)

··································⋆⋅⋆⋅☆⋅⋆⋅⋆··································

• Ireland’s Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered by Turtle Bunbury

• The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England by Julie Kavanagh

• The Kaiser’s Pirates: Hunting Germany's Raiding Cruisers 1914-1915 by Nick Hewitt

• Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri

• The Land of Always Night by Kenneth Robeson

• Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach by Robert Kershaw

··································⋆⋅⋆⋅☆⋅⋆⋅⋆··································

BOOK SERIES: "Legacy of Lucky Logan" by J.R. Frontera • Bargain at Bravebank: A Western Steampunk Adventure (Vol. #1) • Bastard of Blessing: A Western Steampunk Adventure (Vol. #2) • Bones in Blackbird (Vol. #3)

··································⋆⋅⋆⋅☆⋅⋆⋅⋆··································

• The Lion and the Cross: A Novel of Saint Patrick and Ancient Ireland by Joan Lesley Hamilton

• The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War by Des Ekin

• Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown: The Kings and Queens Who Never Were by J.F. Andrews

• Loving the Dead and Gone by Judith Turner-Yamamoto (Narrators include: Roger Clark, Sophie Amoss, Cassandra Campbell)

#roger clark #audiobooks #audio literature #writers #authors #narrators #scheduled post #roger's audiobooks

9 notes · View notes

bonnettsbooks · 5 months

Text

12/4/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please.

Today's big adventure is contained in these Doc Savage paperbacks of the 1960s and '70s, from Bantam Books. They're reprints from Doc Savage magazine, a pulp from the 1930s and '40s published by Street and Smith. Nearly 90 percent of the initial Doc Savage stories were written by author Lester Dent. Kenneth Robeson was a house-name owned by Street and Smith Publications.

#BonnettsBooks #DaytonOhio #BrickAndMortar #UsedBookStore #DocSavage #LesterDent #daytonoh #dayton #vintagepaperbacks

0 notes

after-perfect · 1 year

Text

Tagged by @natsuzora - thanks!

List 10 songs from shuffle, tag 10 people.

Maid on the Shore - The Once. Hnnng, I miss NL so much.

Any Day Now - Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack. Aww, Perchik.

How Firm a Foundation - Scottish Festival Singers. For someone who is profoundly atheist, I have a surprising amount of sacred music. Also, St. Denio is the only tune I will accept for How Firm a Foundation, and I will die on this hill.

Tanz der Vampire finale - Hamburg cast, I believe? Well, that's a bit of mood whiplash from the previous song. But also it fucking slaps.

Wild Mountain Thyme - Kenneth McKellar. OK, if you haven't heard Kenneth McKellar's voice, do yourself a favour and look him up. Especially if you like folk songs, which I very, very much do.

The Geek - Wir sind Helden. I'm weirdly attached to this song and also to WsH? It's catchy.

O Come All Ye Faithful - Choir of King's College, Cambridge. OK, two things about this one: 1) If my collection of choral hymns is bigger than most people who know me would expect, my collection of Christmas choral music is bordering on ludicrous. 2) I love this shirt kind of a lot. That right there is undoubtedly the secret chord that David (Willcocks) played and it pleased the Lord.

Ol' Man River - Paul Robeson. True story: Showboat was the first musical I ever saw on stage. I was 8, and I knew every word of every song.

English Folk Song Suite - I'm actually not sure who's playing/conducting the version that I have, but I can never listen to it without falling back in love with Vaughan Williams.

Personent Hodie - Utopia Chamber Choir. Of all the things that you'd expect might be mistaken for the beginning of a Queen song, Personent Hodie is possibly at the absolute bottom of the list, but listen to this and tell me you didn't for half a second think they were about to launch into We Will Rock You. Seriously.

I never know who to tag in these things. If you feel like doing it then tag - you're it.

#look i never said i have good musical taste ok?#in fact if you ask my music prof father i have abysmal taste #but at this point i just own it and like what i like #music #taggy things

1 note · View note

krinsbez · 2 years

Quote

I advise against turning that valve. I advise it very strongly

Richard Henry Benson, AKA The Avenger, from The Devil's Horns by "Kenneth Robeson" (actually Paul Ernst). I don’t know why I love this particular iteration of “The Avenger warns the BBEG not to trigger a death trap (because the Avenger has rigged it to backfire)“ so much, but I do.

#The Avenger #Justice Inc #Pulp Heroes

0 notes

all-action-all-picture · 2 months

Text