{"id":8409,"date":"2009-12-19T06:57:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T13:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:17:53","slug":"doc-versus-bumble-the-fate-of-xmas-hangs-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/doc-versus-bumble-the-fate-of-xmas-hangs-in-the-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc versus Bumble! The fate of Christmas hangs in the balance&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/000_Doc-Rescuing-Rudolph-400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8410\" title=\"000_Doc-Rescuing-Rudolph-400\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/000_Doc-Rescuing-Rudolph-400.jpg\" alt=\"000_Doc-Rescuing-Rudolph-400\" width=\"499\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/000_Doc-Rescuing-Rudolph-400.jpg 835w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/000_Doc-Rescuing-Rudolph-400-150x119.jpg 150w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/000_Doc-Rescuing-Rudolph-400-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I discovered this\u00a0cover for a Doc novel that &#8220;should have been&#8221;\u00a0over at James Reasoner&#8217;s most excellent site, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesreasoner.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/great-site-for-doc-savage-fans.html\">Rough Edges<\/a><\/em>. From there, it was but one more click to Kez Wilson&#8217;s <em>Doc Savage Fantasy Cover Gallery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been nearly three decades since I read a Doc Savage book, but I&#8217;ve still got a soft spot for the Man of Bronze. Lester Dent, a pulpster from the Midwestern hinterlands, was a man of incredible energy and that often came through in his novels, which he cranked out\u00a0at a jaw-dropping\u00a0pace.<\/p>\n<p>Looking over some of Wilson&#8217;s other fantasy Doc covers,\u00a0ones like\u00a0<em>Devil Doctor<\/em> reminded me that Doc&#8217;s stories were\u00a0basically\u00a0&#8220;weird menace&#8221; tales, tales just like REH&#8217;s own &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardworks.com\/storyb.htm#blac15\">Black Wind Blowing<\/a>&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=3185\">Skull-Face<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that Mr. Wilson doesn&#8217;t stop with these covers. Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I discovered this\u00a0cover for a Doc novel that &#8220;should have been&#8221;\u00a0over at James Reasoner&#8217;s most excellent site, Rough Edges. From there, it was but one more click to Kez Wilson&#8217;s Doc Savage Fantasy Cover Gallery. It&#8217;s been nearly three decades since I read a Doc Savage book, but I&#8217;ve still got a soft spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motifs-in-rehs-work","category-other-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16765,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions\/16765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}