DOC SAVAGE MAGAZINE. "The Land of Terror."
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1933. Octavo, cover painting by Walter Baumhofer, pictorial wrappers. The second issue with the story "The Land of Terror." "Doc Savage was intended to be an adventure character, but under Lester Dent's imaginative manipulations he became something more - the first superhero and an inspiration for countless pulp, comic-book, and television characters." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 521-527. "The enormously wealthy Doc Savage – headquartered in a fantasticated New York with his five sidekicks, who specialize in various crafts and sciences at the borderline of sf – devotes his life to combating criminal conspiracies, almost all masterminded by the kind of charismatic villain later given definitive form by Ian Fleming in the James Bond books. Doc Savage himself clearly influenced the creation of Superman." - SFE online. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 183-185]. Mild tanning to text paper, but quite supple, small chips to right and lower front edges, cover creasing, large chip to lower right rear cover, chips to left rear edge. A very good copy. Uncommon. (31888). Item #31888
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