I read voraciously when I was a kid. Anything. Everything. (Now? Not nearly as much offline reading as I’d like.) When the testosterone started production, I moved to the more adventurey material, featuring cover artwork more aligned to… my gelling orientation. So you might be able to appreciate my fondness for a series of paperbacks — I had every one — featuring the adventures of The Man of Bronze…
Doc Savage:
Hey, that reminds me: I need to go boot shopping. Ahem.
Doc Savage would, of course, have a band of sidekicks, referred to on the book covers as The Fabulous Five; I rest my case. My teenaged hormones aside, you really can’t find fault with…
Doc Savage’s Oath
- Let me strive every moment of my life to make myself better and better, to the best of my ability, that all may profit by it.
- Let me think of the right and lend all my assistance to those who need it, with no regard for anything but justice.
- Let me take what comes with a smile, without loss of courage. Let me be considerate of my country, of my fellow citizens and my associates in everything I say and do.
- Let me do right to all, and wrong no man.
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Oh, awesome. I was never into the old-school pulp adventure stories as a young nerd, but I’ve gotten newfound appreciation for them recently through
1) Planetary, an unspeakably brilliant comic book series full of homages to various sci-fi, adventure and superhero icons, including Savage and his gang.
2) Rediscovering Capitaine Flam, one of several French-dubbed anime I enjoyed as a kid, and finding out it was actually adapted from a 1940′s sci-fi pulp series called Captain Future. It’s interesting that Savage and Future have a lot in common: they’re both physically and mentally perfect men, trained from birth to fight evil and put their vast knowledge and abilities to the service of humanity. Heh. Those were the days when you could be both manly and scientific. (If you’re interested, a few of the original stories can be downloaded here.)
And, uh, that picture isn’t looking too bad. If you need me, I’ll be in my bunk.