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Doc Savage Mezco figure

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Doc Savage on my mind. I see Mezco has a new figure coming out. Photo is from Comic Con.
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Not bad.
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Usually when they do the modern take on Doc he has a ripped shirt-- this must be a fresh from the dry cleaners version. Goes nice with Mezco's Shadow which was one of their best figures.
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AndyFish wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 2:19 pm Usually when they do the modern take on Doc he has a ripped shirt-- this must be a fresh from the dry cleaners version. Goes nice with Mezco's Shadow which was one of their best figures.
I have the Shadow Figure was gifted it by a great friend, hopefully they supply a torn shirt too, or it’s a easy mod
Can’t wait
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Sacrilege Mike! You would actually attempt to tear that clearly Sears Brand shirt that Doc is wearing? I think you'll end up hurting yourself! ;)
I like the figure-- I don't know if I'd get it-- these are getting more and more expensive. At one point I had both Dark Knight figures but I didn't like how tight the uniforms were and I sold them when they were going for crazy numbers. Mezco has done a number of Batman figures (and still rumored to be doing a '66) but none of them have hit home for me. I was at an antique store yesterday and the absolutely not antique Mezco Ascending Knight Batman figure was in one of the glass cases for $50-- and I still passed.
All right, I've de-railed Doc's thread enough-- keeping it timely for those who were disappointed Ron Ely didn't sport this extreme widow's peak when he played Doc in '75-- the Golden Age Doc had the Ron Ely haircut.
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Didn't the pulp magazines show Doc with a more Clark Gable-ish hair cut? I thought the widow's peak to the extreme became the style when James Bama did the covers for the paperbacks.
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Exactly youthful ward-- the pulp Doc had the traditional Ely haircut-- it wasn't until the 70s reprints that he got the bizarre helmet haircut.
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I remember watching it when it came on television. Still remember the theme music, but haven’t seen it since then. I always thought that it was a pilot for a potential TV series that never came to fruition. I suppose I could just look that up, but just shooting from the hip here.
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It did feel like a pilot, and in some ways it was; Fantasy producer George Pal intended to launch a series of films to follow the success of the James Bond films (The Doc novel reprints were hot sellers at the time) and he even filmed some footage for the first sequel but the film flopped so badly it ended any chance of more.

It is overly campy-- apparently the widow of Doc's creator Lester Dent loved the movie so much she saw it multiple times on opening day-- I myself have read a handful of Doc novels and while they have fun elements they never connected with me the way The Shadow did.

The Movie is available from Amazon on DVD is available on Streaming on Vudu (now called Fandango) and apparently there are a new series of Doc Savage books by James Patterson. Patterson also started a new series of Shadow books which in my opinion connect to the original character in only the vaguest way.
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