If you’ve never read one of the Man of Bronze’s adventures
this podcast can serve as an introduction to him and his world. Although the
character is not very well known these days, Doc Savage has a long and storied
history. Born out of the fertile imagination of the great Lester Dent in the
Depression of the 1930’s he is the perfect heroic man meant to exist as a beacon
of nobility for people to aspire to emulate. An adventurer and righter of
wrongs with an unbreakable code of ethics, Savage was the type of pulp fiction
hero that could be enjoyed by readers of any age looking for fast action and
wild plots. Yes, the violence often gets brutal in a Doc Savage novel but
the bad guys will always be the ones that end up on the unfortunately placed
sharp stick or at the bottom of that undiscovered deadly pit.
In this episode Doc Savage super-fan Brian Lindsey joins me
for a conversation about all things Doc that ranges from the character’s
background; his use of incredibly prescient gadgets; his five amazing
companions; the best and worst of the novels and even the unfortunate 1975
George Pal produced film. As it appears that writer/director Shane Black is
pushing to revive Doc as a film project in the near future we even speculate on
who we’d like to see cast in the title role – we can be such conventional geeks!
We also get into the details of the elements that make these books so much fun
and pick apart some of the things that are a little questionable as well. If
you’ve heard of The Shadow but never heard of Clark Savage, Jr. now is the time
to let us escort you to the 86th floor of the Empire State
Building
If you want to drop us a line here at the podcast just write
to thebloodypit@gmail.com and
let us know what you think. Thank you very much for downloading and listening.
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