Doc Savage reprints a success?
Anim8rFSK
"I think I recall that you're a Doc Savage fan--do you happen to know if
the recent reprintings of the old magazines are regarded as a "success"?
I was talking with a Swiftonian about whether TS is basically
"dead"--and got to wondering about other attempts to resurrect old
series characters."
Anybody?
TIA
--
"He'll succumb to all who find
DOC SAVAGE! DOC SAVAGE!"
Hey, that's what we THOUGHT the words were,
first time we saw the movie in the theater . . .
The Loser
> Got this from a friend, and told him I'd ask here:
>
> "I think I recall that you're a Doc Savage fan--do you happen to know if
> the recent reprintings of the old magazines are regarded as a "success"?
> I was talking with a Swiftonian about whether TS is basically
> "dead"--and got to wondering about other attempts to resurrect old
> series characters."
>
> Anybody?
>
> TIA
>
-------The pulp reprint market appears to be doing quite well. Anthony
Tollin's Sanctum books are still reprinting The Shadow and Doc Savage
(also recently added The Avenger). Girasol Press in Canada has been
adding titles each month for years now. Their Spider title has reached
number 46 and they are still reprinting Terror Tales, Weird Tales,
Spicy's, etc. Adventure House is still reprinting pulp, so is John
Locke's Off-Trail Press. There are many others too numerous to name.
This appears to be the golden age for pulp reprints.
-----Walker Martin.
Anim8rFSK
<7b43d8cf-04f0-4c28...@j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
The Loser <wama...@aol.com> wrote:
Thanks!
J
suspect the press runs are far smaller than they were at the outset.
The earlier titles are being remaindered all over the place...
hea...@aracnet.com
> Got this from a friend, and told him I'd ask here:
> "I think I recall that you're a Doc Savage fan--do you happen to know if
> the recent reprintings of the old magazines are regarded as a "success"?
> I was talking with a Swiftonian about whether TS is basically
> "dead"--and got to wondering about other attempts to resurrect old
> series characters."
Swiftonian? TS? I assume you mean "Tom Swift"? I have about two-thirds of
the original series, all of the TS Jr. series, most of the the third series,
and I think I've seen a newer series. In my opinion, the only two real
series are the first and second. The last attempt I saw to print the second
was in roughly 1977 with 6 paperbacks. The paperbacks haven't held up well,
and one of these days I'd like to replace mine with hardbacks. The paper is
almost in as bad of shape as the Whitman editions of the first series
(depression era).
I think the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew are the only series characters to have
survived out of that type of books. My kids aren't old enough to read them
yet, and I haven't read anything other than 1st Series Tom Swifts in well
over 20 years, so I'm not totally aware of the current state. I do
occasionally glance through them when I'm hunting for my wife and kids in
the bookstore.
There are a lot of great old series that were extremelly popular in the
first half of the 20th century that are basically unknown now. Some lasted
into the 70's, but not many.
I know there have been reprints of some of the original Hardy Boys and Nancy
Drew stories starting in the 80's, but other than that I've not seen any
other series. For those that haven't seen the originals from the 1920's and
1930's, they are different stories than those that were release under the
same name in the 1950's. Actually I'm not sure if this is true for the
Nancy Drew books, but is for the Hardy Boys.
Specific character pulps seem to be doing good in reprints. Even some of
the obscure ones seem to do good. I just wish they'd do more Suicide Squad
reprints.
Zane
The Loser
> In alt.pulp Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Got this from a friend, and told him I'd ask here:
> > "I think I recall that you're a Doc Savage fan--do you happen to know if
> > the recent reprintings of the old magazines are regarded as a "success"?
> > I was talking with a Swiftonian about whether TS is basically
> > "dead"--and got to wondering about other attempts to resurrect old
> > series characters."
>
>
> the obscure ones seem to do good. I just wish they'd do more Suicide Squad
> reprints.
>
> Zane
--------------Concerning The Suicide Squad, a series from ACE G-MAN,
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box plans to publish a big volume containing
all the novelets. Hopefully we will see it in 2010.
----Walker Martin.
Dave
> --------------Concerning The Suicide Squad, a series from ACE G-MAN,
> Battered Silicon Dispatch Box plans to publish a big volume containing
> all the novelets. Hopefully we will see it in 2010.
>
Now that would be neat. I love the Suicide Squad's truly devil may
care attitude. "Let's rush'em, and kill a big bunch of rats!" "Great
idea, but we do have to resuce the kidnapped girl." "Oh well, maybe
later..."
We are in the Golden Age of pulp reprints. All the series heroes are
more successful than I would have guessed. About 25 percent of G8 has
been reprinted, nearly a third of DOC SAVAGE, the SPIDEr has to be
closng in on 20 percent, andf over 15 percent of the SHADOW.
However, except for G8, all of the series face a critical issue in the
coming year. The G8 has been reprinted in chronological order. The
series had a single writer, and remained remarkably even over the
years -- you never hear anyone complaim about "a typical post-1936
G8". But the other series have been reprinting a combination of
"greatest hits" and "fan approved, never reprinted", to the point
where pickings are going to be getting slimmer and slimmer. Will
readership and sales keep up, or have they saver out enough winning
stories to keep things going?
dave