Posts Tagged ‘doc savage’

I found something pretty nifty earlier at Half Price Books that seems like something many of you might dig – the pulp adventure lovers among you, anyway. My local HPB has a bunch of brand-new copies of several pulp novel reprints from an outfit called Nostalgia Ventures, and among the titles they have several volumes of Doc Savage stories as well as several volumes of The Shadow. I used to read Doc Savage stories as a kid (no, not in their original editions) and I love the Spirit of the Century RPG of course, (and I’m currently playing it with my face-to-face gang) so I picked one up. Here’s the volume I bought:

Doc Savage Volume 6: Pirate of the Pacific and The Polar Treasure

The volumes available at my HPB were all new and available in multiple copies, so I’m guessing that they are an overstock item sent from a warehouse and not something that was sold to the store by a walk-in. Thus, if you’ve got an HPB near you and you’d like to pick one or more of these up for $6, go take a look, because they might just have some.

There are two full stories in each volume, reprinted in their original texts with only typographical errors corrected – so the writing comes with all its warts including cultural and ethnic stereotyping, which the editors acknowledge up front – I think that was a classy move. It also contains a couple of feature essays for pulp enthusiasts. The cover price is $12.95 and I don’t know if I’d pay that, but for the $6 I spent, it is a very good find.

I knew I was going to get immersed in some interesting pulpy story action when the very first paragraph of the first story read, “Something terrible impended.”

Oh, yes indeed.