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...tall gray-haired man of distinguished appearance was browsing in a paperback bookstore. Balzac, Eliot, James, Kafka, Proust-all at once his eye lighted on a muscle-plated male glaring out of a black background. The slash, in big red letters, read: DOC...
SAVAGE, THE MAN OF BRONZE! Startled, the browser glanced left and right; nobody was looking. Then with a furtive movement he snatched The Man of Bronze off its shelf and, slipping it deftly under a copy of Hazlitt's essays, strolled thoughtfully toward the cashier. Doc Savage? If you are over 40, you don't have to ask. Doc was the Hercules of the '30s, the natural father of both Superman and James Bond. Once a month, back before the war, every red-blooded American boy who could lay his hands on 10? plunked it down...
...past six years, Bantam Books has reprinted 61 of the 181 Doc Savage stories that first appeared between 1933 and 1945; No. 62, The Pirate's Ghost, will hit the racks next week. The 10.5 million copies now in print have realized about $4.5 million in sales. Doc Savage fan clubs have sprung up and three producers have been negotiating for film and television rights. "We've struck into a bronze mine," Bantam's Marc Jarre explains. "Publishing one a month, we've got six years to go in the series. Then we can start over...
...Doc was born in the early '30s under the sign of the dollar. "We're in a depression," the business manager of Street & Smith instructed his editors...
...four-letter alphabet has symbolized a loose moral order imposed by the American film industry on the moviemakers. The rating code is a self-defense mechanism designed to forestall Government interference. The letters Americans see affixed to their movies are really The Word according to Chairman Dougherty-Eugene ("Doc") Dougherty, 52, who has been snipping scenes since 1941 and now heads the Code and Rating Administration. Although Dougherty and the ten board members who serve with him have generally won the praise of exhibitors and the gratitude of parents, there has been increasingly vehement criticism that the categories...