{"id":14138,"date":"2015-01-11T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T04:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=14138"},"modified":"2015-01-11T07:35:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T04:35:53","slug":"doc-savage-convention-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/01\/11\/doc-savage-convention-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc Savage convention 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/azdoccon\">Doc Con XVII<\/a> will be a Doc Savage fan convention in Glendale, Arizona.  Apparently set for 17th-19th October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>No news since last summer, it appears, about Sony&#8217;s mooted <em>Doc Savage<\/em> movie.  And, given the Sony hack, there may not be for some time.  The job might be done better by a lavish 1930s costumed TV mini series, showing 6 x two-parters of the very best 181 original Doc books (1933-1949). And ideally with no modernising tweaks.  A quick scoot around the Web suggests <em>The Man of Bronze<\/em> and <em>The Polar Treasure<\/em> are two likely candidates&#8230; but it seems there&#8217;s no handy list to be had with a title like: &#8220;The Six Very Best <em>Doc Savage<\/em> Novels, for those who <em>really<\/em> don&#8217;t want to slog through all 181 titles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Though a handy slog-free taster of Doc can be had from the quarterly <em>Doc Savage<\/em> magazine (1975-1977), oversize b&amp;w &#8216;mature&#8217; comics with extra-long stories. I remember being very fond of these, pieced together as a collection of used copies picked up from comic shops.  They are collected in a huge hardback reprint <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1606905147\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1606905147&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dlog-20&amp;linkId=A6NPPHHXQ5MWPKBN\"><em>Doc Savage<\/em> Archives Volume 1: The Curtis Magazine Era<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=dlog-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1606905147\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" \/><\/em> which is apparently set for release 3rd February 2015 (according to Amazon USA, Amazon UK says 20th January).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and about that time when H.P. Lovecraft let Dent use his settings and monsters? <em><a href=\"http:\/\/uncledougsbunkerofhorror.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/04\/doc-savage-madness-from-sea.html\">Doc Savage: Madness from the Sea<\/a><\/em>, <em>perhaps<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/230_doc-400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/230_doc-400.jpg\" alt=\"230_Doc-400\" width=\"381\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Con XVII will be a Doc Savage fan convention in Glendale, Arizona. Apparently set for 17th-19th October 2015. No &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/01\/11\/doc-savage-convention-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}