At this year's Pulpfest, I bought a copy of THE VRIL AGENDA, co-authored by Josh Reynolds and RETRO-SCANS veteran Derrick Ferguson; Ferguson's hero Dillon, embarking upon a career as an adventurer, seeks the mentorship of a Golden Age hero and winds up with Jim Anthony, the "Super Detective"--thereby teaming up a New Pulp Doc Savage analogue with an Old Pulp Doc Savage knockoff.
There's a scene wherein Dillon presents Anthony with a list of heroes he'd been hoping to consult; carefully avoiding names, Anthony runs down the list: one guy married a Mayan princess and retired to Central America; another never remarried or had children, although descendants of his assistants are still running his organization. A third is still running around, and there's some question as to whether he can be killed at all (the two met during an adventure, an encounter that Anthony apparently found so unsettling that he refuses to discuss it), and a fourth is "obsessive, fanatical, and just plain dangerous
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One could call the prologue and epilogue of Will Murray's Wild Adventure of Doc Savage Skull Island (Mar 2013) both an extension and alternative view of PJF's "After King Kong Fell"....
Waitaminnit. So what did they do with the body? Was it like one of those gangster movies where the bring out the hacksaws and cut the body up the move it easier? I don't think hacksaws would do the job, but I don't know if they had chainsaw technology back then. Either way, that would be a bad job to have.
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There's a scene wherein Dillon presents Anthony with a list of heroes he'd been hoping to consult; carefully avoiding names, Anthony runs down the list: one guy married a Mayan princess and retired to Central America; another never remarried or had children, although descendants of his assistants are still running his organization. A third is still running around, and there's some question as to whether he can be killed at all (the two met during an adventure, an encounter that Anthony apparently found so unsettling that he refuses to discuss it), and a fourth is "obsessive, fanatical, and just plain dangerous ( ... )
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I don't think hacksaws would do the job, but I don't know if they had chainsaw technology back then. Either way, that would be a bad job to have.
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