Bantam Books reprinted the Doc Savage pulps from 1964 through 1990. Bantam was the first published of…
Bantam Books reprinted the Doc Savage pulps from 1964 through 1990. Bantam was the first published of the pulp-era novel The Red Spider, which had been shelved by Street and Smith. The company then published new titles by Philip José Farmer (Escape from Loki) and Will Murray (seven novels from 1991-1993).
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
Fr
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
Fr
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.
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 Cond
Dear Mr. Kimball,
Please, do you know if Cond
Dear Sirs,
Please let me know the complete address of Cond
Dear Sirs,
Please let me know the complete address of Cond
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Malheureusement, Bleeding Sun (ou “Le Soleil Sanglant”) n’a pas
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 http://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.
jordan
conde nast is owned by bantam books. bantam in not currently publishing the books, so you cannot order them from bantam directly. you can buy the used books easily on http://www.ebay.com.
best!
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
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I am interested in selling (as a lot) the following books. Contact me for more details.
2 books in 1: Cargo Unknown
2 books in 1: Death Had Yellow Eyes
2 books in 1: Devils of the Deep
2 books in 1: Hell Below
2 books in 1: Satan Black
2 books in 1: The Firey Menace
2 books in 1: The Headless Men
2 books in 1: The Lost Giant
2 books in 1: The Screaming Man
2 books in 1: The Shape of Terror
2 books in 1: The Talking Devil
2 books in 1: The Ten Ton Snakes
2 books in 1: The Three Wild Men
2 books in 1: They Died Twice
According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic
Bequest of Evil
Birds of Death
Brand of the Werewolf
Cargo Unknown
Cold Death
Colors for Murder
Danger Lies East
Death Had Yellow Eyes
Death in Little Houses
Death in Silver
Death Is a Round Black Spot
Devil on the Moon
Devils of the Deep
Dust of Death
Escape from Loki (Philip Farmer)
Fear Cay
Fire and Ice
Five Fathoms Dead
Fortress of Solitude
He Could Stop the World
Hell Below
Hex
I Died Yesterday
Jade Ogre
Jiu San
King Joe Cay
Land of Always-Night
Land of Long Juju
Lets Kill Ames
Mad Eyes
Mad Mesa
Measures for a Coffin
Men of Fear
Merchants of Disaster
Meteor Menace
Murder Melody
Murder Mirage
Mystery Island
Mystery on Happy Bones
Mystery Under the Sea
No Light to Die By
Omnibus 1: The All-White Elf
Omnibus 1: The Angry Canary
Omnibus 1: The Running Skeletons
Omnibus 1: The Swooning Lady
Omnibus 6: Fire and Ice
Omnibus 6: The Awful Dynasty
Omnibus 6: The Disappearing Lady
Omnibus 6: The Magic Forest
Omnibus 8: The Mental Monster
Omnibus 8: The Pink Lady
Omnibus 8: Trouble on Parade
Omnibus 8: Weird Valley
Omnibus 11: Colors For Murder
Omnibus 11: Death is a Round Black Spot
Omnibus 11: Se-Pah-Poo
Omnibus 11: The Devil is Jones
Omnibus 11: Three Times a Corpse
Omnibus 12: Bequest of Evil
Omnibus 12: Death in Little Houses
Omnibus 12: Target For Death
Omnibus 12: The Death Lady
Omnibus 12: The Exploding Lake
Omnibus 13: Return From Cormoral
Omnibus 13: Terror Wears No Shoes
Omnibus 13: The Derelict of Skull Shoal
Omnibus 13: The Green Master
Omnibus 13: Up From The Earth’s Center
Omnibus 5: I Died Yesterday
Omnibus 5: Let’s Kill Ames
Omnibus 5: No Light to Die By
Omnibus 5: Once Over Lightly
Omnibus 5: The Monkey Suit
Omnibus 9: Birds of Death
Omnibus 9: Terror Takes 7
Omnibus 9: The Invisible Box Murders
Omnibus 9: The Wee Ones
Once Over Lightly
Ost [The Magic Island]
Peril in the North
Pirate Isle
Pirate of the Pacific
Python Isle
Quest of Qui
Quest of the Spider
Red Snow
Resurrection Day
Spook Hole
The Angry Ghost
The Annihilist
The Awful Egg
The Black Spot
The Boss of Terror
The Crimson Serpent
The Czar of Fear
The Dagger in the Sky
The Deadly Dwarf
The Derrick Devil
The Devil Genghis
The Devils Playground
The Evil Gnome
The Fantastic Island
The Flaming Falcons
The Flying Goblin
The Forgotten Realm
The Freckled Shark
The Giggling Ghosts
The Gold Ogre
The Golden Man
The Golden Peril
The Green Death
The Green Eagle
The Hate Genius (Retitled: Violent Night)
The Haunted Ocean
The King Maker
The Land of Fear
The Land of Terror
The Living-FireMenace
The Lost Oasis
The Magic Island
The Majii
The Man of Bronze
The Man Who Shook the Earth
The Men Who Smiled No More
The Mental Wizard
The Metal Master
The Midas Man
The Monsters
The Motion Menace
The Mountain Monster
The Munitions Master
The Mystery on the Snow
The Mystic Mullah
The Other World
The Phantom City
The Pirates Ghost
The Polar Treasure
The Purple Dragon
The Red Skull
The Red Spider
The Red Terrors
The Roar Devil
The Sargasso Ogre
The Sea Angel
The Sea Magician
The Secret in the Sky
The Seven Agate Devils
The South Pole Terror
The Spook Legion
The Spotted Men
The Squeaking Goblin
The Stone Man
The Submarine Mystery
The Terror in the Navy
The Thousand-Headed Man
The Vanisher
The Yellow Cloud
Tunnel Terror
White Eyes
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
Please send list of all doc savage books ,, I’m trying to collect them. but don’t know all the names of the books.. Thanks
I have quite a large number of Doc Savage paperbacks in fine to near-mint condition that I would like to sell; I’m not content owning a partial collection, but I really can’t afford to continue to pursue the rest. Thanks!