Doc Savage meets Dracula, Godzilla, the Rocketeer

[dr_hermes.insanejournal.com]

What an unexpected treat for Doc fans. Keith "Kez" Wilson has fabricated forty of these "What If" covers using art by the great James Bama from the Bantam paperbacks. In the original pulps, the seemingly supernatural menaces which the Man of Bronze faced always turned out to have a rational explanation. But imagine Doc coming up against the likes of the Wolf Man, or Count Dracula? Or science fiction threats like the Blob, the Creature from the Black Lagoon or Klaatu and Gort? The Doctor in his Tardis? Fu Manchu? IF these books were authorized by Conde Nast and someone like Will Murray was writing them, I'd cash in my life insurance to buy them if I had to.Wilson has also done clean-ups and make-overs on those Bantam Doubles where the Bob Larkin art was reduced to teeny little images. It's great to see how they would have looked as regular covers.

Thanks, "Kez!" I hope you realize how much your efforts are appreciated. It made my day brighter.

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For comics legitimacy, here is a splendid page by Doug Moench and Tony DeZuniga from Marvel's 1974 black & white series... a good introduction to the character.