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"Shadow and Doc Savage, The"
Dark Horse kicked off their new series for the two greatest pulp heroes, Doc Savage and the Shadow, with this two-issue miniseries teaming them.
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| Issue #: | 1 | | Publishing Date: | July 1995 |
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| Title: | The Case of the Shrieking Skeletons [Part One] | | Credits: | Steve Vance (writer), Stan Manoukian (penciler)
Vince Roucher (inker), James Sinclair (colorist), Dave Stevens (cover penciler) | | Score: | ¶¶¶ (out of 5) | | Synopsis: | Late one night, Bernice Reinstein and her fiancé Paul Veidt are attacked by vicious skeletal monsters. Paul fights them off as Bernie escapes to safety. Finding a cab, she asks to be taken to a man her father wrote her about: Doc Savage. At Doc’s office, she relates how her father, Dr. Jacob Reinstein, and his assistant Paul, ...
Sign in to see the full synopsis | | Synopsis Written By: | Peter Silvestro |
| Pro Review: | By Peter Silvestro
The first thing that strikes one about Dark Horse’s initial Doc Savage offering is the art: more vibrant than any that has gone before, largely because of the brighter colors and a little cartoonier than all the others. The characters are nicely drawn, even if Doc looks a little too rock-like, and the portrayals are accurate (though again Ham has a mustache). And that splash panel! Is there any more exciting and lurid way to open a story than having a woman’s clothing being ripped off by zombies? As for the story, the chief problem is familiarity: DC already did “Doc meets the Shadow” and “Doc and the Hindenburg” (and the latter also featured a young German scientist as the heroine’s fiancé). The writing is okay so far, we’ll have to see where it goes, but the chief oddity is that Doc and the Shadow never meet in this issue. They’ll have to make up for lost time next issue.
Score: 3 (out of 5) |
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