It's another pulse-pounding adventure with everyone's favorite overly-tanned physician-adventurer, Doc Savage!After a charming editorial by Marv Wolfman about how Michele, aka Mrs.Wolfman, is completely head-over-heels in love with movie Doc Savage Ron Ely (interviewed for this issue), is the main story "Hell-Reapers at the Heart of Paradise" (great title) by Doug Moench and Tony DeZuniga.
It features mad, out-of-time vikings, lost treasure, even more lost explorers, lizard men, and a mysterious valley under the surface of the earth, all told in high style. It's a fun, rip-roaring adventure, yet full of all the characterization and little Batman-esque gadgets that were hallmarks of the books. Moench had the ability to adapt his writing style to fit the subject, and the chance to tell longer stories in a comics format (this runs almost fifty pages) clearly energized Moench. These were straightforward tales of bold adventure, and a heck of a lot of fun.
Next is the aforementioned Ron Ely interview, which runs a few pages, with pics of him reading Doc Savage #1. It's a little sad to read him talk about the plans for a series of Doc Savage films, knowing it would all come to naught...
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It's been forever but I remember being disappointed with this issue, I really liked the first but sort of forgot about this one right away.....
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