Back to 1953 we go this time and the most bitter days of the Cold War. When I starting writing these stories back around the age of eleven or twelve (the Dawn of Time in other words), Michael Hawk never got as much of the spotlight as he should have. He was shown as being in his sixties then, more a mentor and teacher to the new heroes like Jeremy Bane than anything else. But back in his prime years, the 1940s and 1950s, Hawk was the equal of any adventure character from the pulps. There's a good deal of early Doc Savage in him (toned down considerably) and a good deal of a Western cowboy brought up against big city criminals, but Hawk was meant to be a locked-room mystery solver too. He needs a few more stories from this era to show what he could do;
Comments 1
Back to 1953 we go this time and the most bitter days of the Cold War. When I starting writing these stories back around the age of eleven or twelve (the Dawn of Time in other words), Michael Hawk never got as much of the spotlight as he should have. He was shown as being in his sixties then, more a mentor and teacher to the new heroes like Jeremy Bane than anything else. But back in his prime years, the 1940s and 1950s, Hawk was the equal of any adventure character from the pulps. There's a good deal of early Doc Savage in him (toned down considerably) and a good deal of a Western cowboy brought up against big city criminals, but Hawk was meant to be a locked-room mystery solver too. He needs a few more stories from this era to show what he could do;
Reply
Leave a comment