Nazi-Punchers DOC SAVAGE "Olympic Peril" Chapter 3: Funeral in Berlin

When Last We Left the Man of Bronze...

...aware that a Nazi plot involving a German Ubermensch, developed using the same methods Doc's father used to hone him into the physical and mental marvel he is, will be executed at the 1936 Olympics, the Man of Bronze and his team arrive on the scene...

Tomorrow: Wall-to-Wall Nazi-Punching!

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Nazi-Punchers DOC SAVAGE "Olympic Peril" Chapter 2: Six Came Together

We Have Already Seen...

...after an assassination attempt is made on Doc Savage and his team, they discover the now-dead killers were Nazis sent to prevent the adventurers from interfering in "Operation Siegfried", involving a German they had encountered years before...















Note: It had long been established back in the original pulp magazines that Doc met the future members of the Amazing Five while they were all incarcerated during World War I in German POW camp "Loki"...which they escaped from!

But, the details of the matter had never been revealed.

This never-reprinted Annual from 1989 was the first time the actual event had been shown.

Two years later, with the final Bantam Books reprints of the original pulps issued, completing the series, Bantam commissioned Philip Jose Farmer, who had written Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (A 'biography' of the character treating the pulps as historical documentation.) and a series of books about the Wold Newton shared universe which postulated that most fictional characters and stories (everything from Jane Austin to HG Wells) fit together into a single continuity!
Think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but on steroids!
He had also penned a treatment for a sequel (Doc Savage: Arch-Enemy of Evil) to the 1975 George Pal movie Doc Savage: the Man of Bronze, and scripted several pastiches with a thinly-disguised Doc Savage named Doc Caliban along with an equally-thinly disguised Tarzan, including this obvious tribute to the Bantam reprints with a kool Gray Morrow-doing-James Bama cover...

...which made him an obvious choice to do the official "origin" tale of Doc and his team.

The result is quite different from the Annual by writer Mike W Barr, penciler Gabriel Morrissette, and inker Rick Magyar.
Trivia: AFAIK, Escape from Loki is the only Doc Savage prose novel to not be reprinted in any form!

The Action Continues...at the 1936 Olympics, Tomorrow!

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Nazi-Punchers DOC SAVAGE "Olympic Peril" Chapter 1: Hidden Swastika!

Let's Begin Our Tale with the Man of Bronze's Associates...

...engaged in their usual hi-jinks.

The Action Continues...with a FlashBack to World War I, Tomorrow!

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Nazi-Punchers DOC SAVAGE "Olympic Peril" Prologue

Our Tale Begins at the Literal Beginning of Life Itself...

...and will span three decades, a World War, the origin of the first team of super-adventurers, and the most controversial sports festival in history!

Be Here Tomorrow for the First Chapter in a Never-Reprinted, Book-Length SuperSaga!
Have No Fear!
The Man of Bronze is HERE!

Russkie-Smashers SPY CASES "Smashing the Iron Curtain!"

"A secret agent is not some mythical being born on the comic page..."

...and raised to glory on the silver screen!"

How "meta" can you get?

Though the tale is closer to Mickey Spillane than Ian Fleming, it's still a rousing adventure that proves you don't need tights and a cape to smash Russkies!

Doug Grant was the star of the ongoing (and usually cover-featured) lead strip of Atlas' Spy Cases anthology comic.
This intro tale from #27 (actually #1, but they were continuing the numbering from a different comic, The Kellys) is scripted by Robert Bernstein and illustrated by Al Hartley.
He lasted for 39 stories, longer than any other Atlas-era secret agent except for The Yellow Claw's nemesis Jimmy Woo!

Next Week:

The legendary Man of Bronze takes on the Nazis at the 1936 Olympics as they put up an athlete who was trained from birth using the same techniques that Dr Clark Savage Sr used for Doc in this never-reprinted, almost 40 year-old extra-long tale!

Guest appearances by historical figures including Jesse Owens and Adolf (You Know Who)!

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