Official Shadow and Doc Savage reprints coming soon

Nostalgia buff and DC Comics colorist Anthony Tollin has acquired the rights to publish the original Shadow and Doc Savage pulp novels.

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The Shadow and Doc Savage are returning to thrill fans old and new.
Anthony Tollin has acquired the license to reprint the original Shadow
and Doc Savage pulp novels, and will be publishing trade paperback
reprints in partnership with Nostalgia Ventures, Inc., a leader in the
field of radio and television nostalgia. These Shadow and Doc Savage
volumes are officially licensed by Condé Nast, the owner of the famous
properties.

"This is a dream come true for me," proclaims Anthony Tollin, the
former DC Comics professional who is also a leading pulp and radio
historian. Tollin co-authored Walter B. Gibson's The Shadow Scrapbook
in 1979, and has long desired to get Gibson's Shadow novels back in
print. "We're reissuing the classic pulp stories with the original
covers and interior art, with the type reset for clarity. We're
initially releasing the stories in a double-novel format. Our first
volume, already at the printers, reprints Walter Gibson's 'Crime,
Insured' and 'The Golden Vulture,' a Shadow novel that Lester Dent
wrote in 1932 that was later revised by Gibson and published in 1938.
This is the Shadow novel that won Lester Dent the Doc Savage contract.
Our first story, 'Crime, Insured' is recognized as Walt Gibson's
greatest action thriller, in which a criminal organization penetrates
The Shadow's operation and captures his major agents, and The Shadow
is trapped as the entire New York underworld invades his sanctum."

This series of trade paperbacks is the first licensed publication of
The Shadow novels in 22 years, and the first authorized reprinting of
the original Doc Savage pulp novels in 15 years. The Shadow Magazine
debuted in 1931 and launched the 1930s hero-pulp boom, inspiring
dozens of characters including the Phantom Detective, the Spider, the
Avenger and the Green Lama. Bob Kane and Bill Finger cited The Shadow
as a major influence on the creation of Batman, while Clark Savage
Jr., the Man of Bronze, was a major influence on the creation and
development of Clark Kent, the Man of Steel.

"If Street & Smith had not published The Shadow and Doc Savage, there
might never have been any Superman or Batman," observes
popular-culture historian Will Murray, who collaborated with Lester
Dent on seven posthumous Doc Savage novels. "Between them, Walter
Gibson and Lester Dent created the archetype of the superhero, and
most of the fiction formulas and trappings of the eternal battle
between superhero and supervillain that has come to dominate popular
culture in the last 75 years. I like to call Lester Dent 'the Father
of the Superhero' because, while Superman and Batman had other
influences, both borrowed liberally from Doc Savage, the original
owner of the Fortress of Solitude."

The first volume of The Shadow is at the printers and will be at
selected specialty stores in mid-July, and shipping from Diamond
Distributors in October. Each paperback will retail for $12.95 and
contain two complete, unabridged pulp adventures of The Shadow, with
covers by George Rozen and interior illustrations by Edd Cartier. The
reprints can also be ordered directly from: Anthony Tollin; P.O. Box
761474; San Antonio; TX 78245-1474 add
$3.00 for postage and packaging) or from Nostalgia Ventures' website
(www.nostalgiaventures.com).

The first volume of Doc Savage will follow in November and will
contain "Fortress of Solitude" and "The Devil Genghis." These are the
two pulp adventures that pitted the Man of Bronze against
master-villain John Sunlight. Rounding out each volume are historical
articles by pulp historians including Tollin and Murray. A second
volume of The Shadow, reprinting "The Chinese Disks" and "Malmordo,"
will also also be released in November. "And that's only the
beginning," Tollin adds. "The Shadow and Doc Savage aren't the only
classic pulp characters I've been licensed to reprint. I think fans of
classic adventure heroes are going to be very excited by some of our
future projects."


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