I am a french reader of Doc Savage. There are 40 books available in French. But I would ,like to know where in US I could by the 181 books.

Please inform US if you could indicate to me in which way I could by the total colection.

Thank you in advance and Best Regards

Frédéric Jordan

Frederic, Ebay is an excellent place to look for Doc Savage books. I managed to get the first 93 in just a couple of weeks. I know the double volumes and the Omnibus books are often ridiculously expensive, so books above #93 can be hard to find, and expensive when you do. But the single books, #1 to 93 are easy to get. I have seen ebay auctions for 100 or more Doc Savage books on disc for the computer, but I don't know much about them. Give ebay a try.

Dear Mr. Kimball,

Please, do you know if Condé Publications can sell the 190 Doc Savage books ?

Please another question ! Ebay is the us website or where could I find the list and the books to buy.

Thanks a lot

Frédéric Jordan

Bantam did such a great job presenting Doc to an whole new audience, it's a wonder they ever stopped and don't seem interested in producing new work. Take a look at ebay and see how well Doc is selling now 10 years after the last adventure hit the stands. It's remarkable that a character so wonderfully dated and innocent by today's standards can produce such devotion to legions of fans. The Bantam books are beautiful little items with the striking artwork and (mostly) black spines. The fact that Bantam was able to reproduce the entire series is something to be grateful for. Imagine if they got 100 stories in when the bottom dropped out of the market. There would 80 stories never reproduced in book form and our collections could never be called complete. I'm hoping that movies like League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (a great film. If you haven't seen it, what are you waiting for) and the upcoming Indiana Jones 4 will be a shot in the arm for the pulp market and lead not only to a Doc Savage movie but more adventures in book form. If I was Bantam, I'd be trying to lock up the rights now before the boom hits.

Does anybody know if the picture on the back of the Bantam books of Doc and his helpers is an actual picture of actors or just very good artwork? If they are actors, does anybody know their names?

I'd like to recommend the site www.abebooks.com for Doc Savage books of all kinds... it's the Advanced Book Exchange and pools hundreds of independent booksellers into one site. Once you've entered your credit card info, it retains it and you can just order from different shops as though it was a catalog. I wholeheartedly recommend it; I've never had a bad experience. You can even find old pulps as well.

BLACK OR WHITE SPINES?

Does anyone know if any of the following single titles were published by Bantam with Black spines? My copies are white and stick out like sore thumbs in my (nearly complete) collection, and I want to know if it's worth looking for black-spined editions:

#75 The Land of Fear
#77 The South Pole Terror
#84 The Mountain Monster
#85 The Boss of Terror
#94 The Hate Genius
#95 The Red Spider

In case anyone else out there has a similar question, I have black-spined copies of every other single Bantam (1-96), although I have seen white spined copies of many of these as well.

By the way, I'd also recommend ABEbooks as well as Amazon.com (i.e. the US Amazon site), in the last couple of months I've managed to fill all the gaps in my collection including Omnibuses and doubles at "reasonable" prices, despite being UK based, except for the rarest doubles. All I need now is Goblins/Secret of the Su.

Why do you guys focus on the PJF and Will Murray Doc Savage novels on the home page so much? In the future, please feature some of the great Lester Dent novels. Remember him? He's the guy who made Doc into the phenomenon that he is....

I have just discovered that Blackmask Books is reprinting the pulps in paperback form, starting with a double issue of The Man of Bronze and The Land of Terror. The cover is black and reflects the two covers of the original pulps they appeared in.

I still have all my original Bantams in a complete set, and can read them at any time, but I may start getting the new editions as well.

As of this writing, there are currently 7 of these double-volumes listed with Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1596540117/qid=1101906282/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-1149623-5485744?v=glance&s=books

--Ted R. Blasingame
http://www.lulu.com/dennier

I understand that some, if not many, of the Doc Savage Bantam books were short printed. Is this true? Can someone steer me in the direction of a site that has info on this? Thanks and SEMPER FI !

Hi Tony

By short printed, do you mean abridged?

For my experience, some Doc novels had small blurbs near the end of the story that gave a brief synopsis of the upcoming adventure in the next month's issue of the magazine. Bantam removed these since they did not follow the original publication order of the books. Usually it was only a sentence or two that gave the story title and mentioned something that was currently happening that would suck Doc and the boys into it.

Can anyone else confirm that these blurbs are all that were removed by Bantam?

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... some Doc novels had small blurbs near the end of the story that gave a brief synopsis of the upcoming adventure ... Bantam removed these since they did not follow the original publication order of the books. ...

Can anyone else confirm that these blurbs are all that were removed by Bantam?>>

Regretfully, NO.
Bantam edited the original novels.

Will Murray has been documenting these differences in articles for years, genreally in a column titled "inciDENTals". Will has shown the pieces missing and some reworking as he uncovers them and has the time, and venue, to publish his research.

Then again, he has written about Street and Smith editing Dent's original story.

Hi Lee, and what I mean is are there any short-printed bantam Doc Savage books, perhaps 65,000 for one book, 78,000 for another print run. I had heard some were short-printed as opposed to being mass-produced by the millions. Thanks and SEMPER FI !

Tony