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| Art by Gil Kane & Frank Giacoia. |
Both
Doc Savage (in 1934) and
Spider-Man (in 1974) are lured to the
same Manhattan building (in their respective time periods) by the
same beautiful woman from another dimension.
(Only in comics would such a statement actually make
sense!)
The woman,
Desinna, warns both of them (in their respective time periods) about the presence of her associate,
Tarros, mutated and driven insane by an accident during the testing of an experimental dimensional portal.
Suddenly, in 1934, Tarros appears...
Though the
Doc Savage comic had been cancelled in 1973 after only eight issues,
Marvel still held the license, and with a
Doc movie coming out in the summer of 1975, they did one more
new color comic, along with a reprint of the first two issues of
Doc's series (which we re-presented
HERE), before initiating a b/w magazine featuring all-new stories rather than adaptations of the pulp/paperback novels.
The movie tanked.
The magazine, though a critical success, was cancelled after eight issues.
Doc would make one more
Marvel appearance, in 1976's
Marvel Two-in-One #21 (which we re-presented
HERE), teaming up with
The Thing in a similar split-time period story with a notable exception...the two heroes actually
met!
Ironically,
DC Comics has reprinted
both the color
and b/w
Doc series from
Marvel Comics!
(In the world of entertainment property licensing, truth
is stranger than fiction, even science fiction!)
However, due to licensing restrictions,
neither Marvel nor
DC has reprinted the two team-up tales we've re-presented on this blog, nor will they
ever do so.
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as "sexual stimulation by combining 'headlights' with the sadist's dream of tying up a woman."
