Simply classic. Probably a Top 10 DOC adventure; certainly no lower
than 15th.

This one has everything -- mystery, adventure, a phantom menace, a
really tough foe, ruthless bad guys, gadget upon gadget, a mysterious
locale, Pat.

RANDOM NOTES:

The guys are pretty slow connecting the dots here. A busniness called
Fountain of Youth, Inc., a client list of old rich men, a man claiming
to be 131 years old -- you;d think it would dawn on them what was
going on before ch. 15.

Pat is really something. This is just her second appearance, but she
is ready for anything -- taking charge of a kidnapping situation,
acting a part, scurrying around to round up stray firearms during a
fight.

Accents are something that tend to ruin lots of Dent characters for
me, but he gets Dan Thunden's southern accent just right.

Just started this one and so far it does seem like a goody. The Bantam
cover caught my attention and drew me in.

On Apr 18, 3:59 pm, mikestu...@peoplepc.com wrote:

call me a heretic, but I am always amazed at how much the original DOC
pulp covers missed the mark

Dave

In article <43f5de5c-5b38-40fe-9ae3-18731df7d44b@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
Dave bellsouth.net> wrote:

In article bignews3.bellsouth.net>,
ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) wrote:

The editors (at least in the beginning) hammered out the plot of each story with
the writers before the story got written, so the editors could pass word on to
the artists. The Shadow covers more often then not had some element of the story
on them. I think Baumhofer didn't put too much effort into the Doc work. He did
much nicer and more topical cover illustrations for other magazines

In the book about Bama, it says Bama had complete control over what he
painted Since elsewhere he has stated how much he enjoyed reading the
books, I think it is safe to say that he read them. In fact, one of
the great points to his covers is how often he really nailed the most
interesting part of the book.

I think toward the end of his run, he started getting a little lazy
and used standard metaphorical poses. This was fantastic in some
covers like the Sea Magician, but wasn't as good with the Gold Ogre or
Freckled Shark.