Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is a look back at my first exposure to the 1930s pulp hero Doc Savage, Man Of Bronze.
Although Doc Savage was very important to me when I was an adolescent and young teen in the early to mid 1970s, I haven't had much else to say about the Man of Bronze. Ol' Doc was a big part of my long-standing fascination with superpulp paperbacks, and obviously integral to my discovery of the pulps in general. The time my parents gave me a bunch of Doc Savage novels is recalled in the story of my past Christmas presents. But, other than an appearance or two in my 100-Page FAKES! series and a mention in my reminiscence of seeing superhero movies, that's about the extent that Doc has been discussed on this blog.
But I still love pulp, and I still love Doc Savage, even though I haven't read his adventures in a while, and even though I haven't written much about him. I confess that I came THISCLOSE to liquidating much of my Doc Savage paperback stash during my massive book collection downsize last year. But I couldn't do it. I could not bring myself to part with my Doc Savages.
Nope. They all remain here with me, in my Fortress of Solitude. Some things you don't need to outgrow; you just need to find room for them. My discovery of Doc Savage, Man of Bronze is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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