Dave
2009-11-29 12:25:12 UTC
From 1938...
I've got stuff moved around for Christmas decorating, so i can't find
my DOC writer's list, but this one has to be ghosted.
It has the potential, but it's one of those that suddenly you know,
about halfway through, that it's just going to be one long capture-and-
release, with some pseudo-science explanation and just-cause-ing at
the end.
There's a weird death in the Arizona desert. People try to warn/kill
DOC in NYC. DOC knows there's danger -- in fact, he actually forbids
Monk and Ham from bringing their pets along. Then we get a submarine
trip under Palm Springs, a glass elevator (Roald Dahl, your childhood
memories are on line 2), convicts working in underground factories
building stuff to make more undergorund factories, and a plot that
just keeps on spinning off the tracks.
DOC doesn't always behave like DOC, and he can perfectly imitate
anyone and any time. Long Tom doesn't act like himself; not prickly
at all. Interest in Geology is switched to Renny, who is said to be
the poorest fighter in the group(!?). Johnny disappears for the
second half of the story; guess his dialogue was just too hard to
write.
But what THE LIVING FIRE MENACE does have is bad guys! Four of them!
-- We get an evil Russian mastermind, of unknown origin.
-- An evil industrialist, using his neice's money to subsisdize his
evil scheme (on loan frm THE SHADOW, maybe).
-- An Italian gangster and his gang (over from THE SPIDER).
-- and a genuine mad scientist, Dr.Torgol, freed from an institution,
and wanting to kill DOC. he is genuinly creepy, and was probably
worth his own adventure.
Was THE LIVING FIRE MENACE Bama's last DOC cover?
Dave
I've got stuff moved around for Christmas decorating, so i can't find
my DOC writer's list, but this one has to be ghosted.
It has the potential, but it's one of those that suddenly you know,
about halfway through, that it's just going to be one long capture-and-
release, with some pseudo-science explanation and just-cause-ing at
the end.
There's a weird death in the Arizona desert. People try to warn/kill
DOC in NYC. DOC knows there's danger -- in fact, he actually forbids
Monk and Ham from bringing their pets along. Then we get a submarine
trip under Palm Springs, a glass elevator (Roald Dahl, your childhood
memories are on line 2), convicts working in underground factories
building stuff to make more undergorund factories, and a plot that
just keeps on spinning off the tracks.
DOC doesn't always behave like DOC, and he can perfectly imitate
anyone and any time. Long Tom doesn't act like himself; not prickly
at all. Interest in Geology is switched to Renny, who is said to be
the poorest fighter in the group(!?). Johnny disappears for the
second half of the story; guess his dialogue was just too hard to
write.
But what THE LIVING FIRE MENACE does have is bad guys! Four of them!
-- We get an evil Russian mastermind, of unknown origin.
-- An evil industrialist, using his neice's money to subsisdize his
evil scheme (on loan frm THE SHADOW, maybe).
-- An Italian gangster and his gang (over from THE SPIDER).
-- and a genuine mad scientist, Dr.Torgol, freed from an institution,
and wanting to kill DOC. he is genuinly creepy, and was probably
worth his own adventure.
Was THE LIVING FIRE MENACE Bama's last DOC cover?
Dave