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Originally Posted by saab-bob
Bill
I have all the "Magnus Robot Fighter" series.They where Gold Key comics.
Great artwork on the early ones.The later ones went downhill.
Does anyone remember "Doc Savage"? Originally published in pulp magazines in the 1930's and 1940's? He and his men carried fully automatic pistols with the rams horn magazines! 
They traveled in gyro-copters and Zeppelin's and lived in the Empire State building. 
Good Stuff!
Bob |
You have all of the Magnus Robot Fighter series Bob? That's awesome! Not too many people even know who he was, much less have his entire comic series. That's amazing!
I'll bet they are worth something today. Especially if in great condition in those plastic sleeves.
Oh yes Bob, of course I remember Doc Savage ("The Man Of Bronze"). They even made some movies and t.v. episodes about him. One of the guys who played Tarzan in the late '60's early '70's (Ron Ely? or something like that?) played Doc Savage. I remember seeing in the movies or t.v. shows or maybe it was in the comics, of Doc Savage using Mauser Broomhandle pistols (so did the Rocketeer, that he appropriated from a German, in the latest Rocketeer movie made around 20 years ago....the one with Timothy Dalton (007) in it as the bad guy loosely based on actor Errol Flynn.
Speaking of the Rocketeer, do y'all remember the big brutish ugly guy in the movie who was fighting with the Rocketeer on top of the zeppelin? Well the interesting thing is, that, that actor was wearing a mask that was made to look exactly like the face of 1930's/'40's actor Rondo Hatten. So Rondo Hatten lived again, although it was just a mask of his face on another actor. Rondo Hatten was the actor who played the monster in a few 1930's/'40's monster movies ("The Creeper") and he played mobster style thugs too. Poor man died as a result of his gland problem right after WW2.
Anyway, the funny thing is, my grandfather knew him personally and was friends with him when he was a handsome man before his glands distorted his head and face. Grandad, my dad and I, were all born in Tampa, Fl. and Rondo Hatten and his family lived in Tampa. Granddad (who lived to be 98 yrs old) told me that Hatten was a very handsome man who had a gland problem that suddenly manifested itself in adulthood and horribly disfigured his face and head. The movie studio later said it was being gassed in WW1 that did it, (Hatten was gassed) but that was incorrect, it was his gland problem that did it not the mustard gas. Interesting story that. Here's a wikipedia link that tells of him with a few pics.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo_Hatton
Granddad met quite a few famous people being born in Tampa in 1898 and living til 1996. He met Buffalo Bill Cody who came through Tampa doing a wild west show (a few years before Cody died in 1917) and granddad got to shake his hand. I've always been amazed by that, my granddad shook Buffalo Bill's hand! He also knew Tony Jannus the pilot who flew the first scheduled airline passenger flight in history from Tampa to St Petersburg Fl. And he met Wiley Post and the very famous comedian and rope trick artist Will Rogers, when they flew around America in Post's Lockheed Vega and stopped in Tampa for awhile, before the famous plane crash that killed them both.
Another actor who was gassed in WW1, caused him to lose all his teeth (nasty thing WW1 gas), and he became an actor after the war and although was relatively young, usually played much older men without his false teeth in. His name was Walter Brennen. "Grandpa" in the old 1950's/'60's t.v. series "The Real McCoy's". Even in the 1930's when Brennen was still pretty young he played the elderly preacher in "Sgt York" starring Gary Cooper. Another interesting thing is Gary Cooper (Sgt York)'s young sister in that movie, was June Lockhart, who grew up to play the mom in the 1960's t.v. series of "Lassie" and also as the mom in "Lost in Space". June Lockhart had a daughter that looks almost exactly like her. But I digress on a tangent Lol.
Anyway, yes I remember Doc Savage traveling by autogyro, but I had forgotten that he lived in the Empire state building. That character is ripe for a well done modern movie to be made about.
Another one I really liked was actor Jude Law in "Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow" with Gwenneth Paltrow, made back in 2004. Always wished they would make a sequel to that, they never did. And I'm still waiting for the sequel to that MarK Walberg "Planet Of The Apes" where he comes back to his own time and lands at the Lincoln memorial, and it's his right time alright, but Lincoln's statue is an ape. That was screaming for a sequel, but they never made one that continued where that particular one left off. And they never gave us an ending to the 1960's "Time Tunnel" t.v. series either. Just like they never gave us an ending to the t.v. series "The Lost World" and just left us hanging in suspense with a swirling vortex in the last episode that was done about almost 20 years ago. There's a website/club for that t.v. show online that I'm a member of. Just google "The Lost World forum". Some of the actors (older now) actually have posted there as do several of the writers for the show. They simply ran out of financing for the last season at the last minute. Hence the cliffhanger that never was resolved. And there I go, digressing and rambling on again. Lol.
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