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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) – Review

Posted on September 10, 2024September 11, 2024 by Mike Brooks

From the jungle adventures of Tarzan to the dark city streets of The Shadow, heroes from the pages of pulp fiction have provided plenty of fuel for Hollywood, though with varying degrees of success, and today we will be looking at one of the least successful of these attempts, one Warner Brothers had hoped would…

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Llana of Gathol: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on December 4, 2016December 1, 2016 by Mike Brooks

Llana of Gathol is the tenth and penultimate book in the Barsoom series and consists of four connected stories; “The Ancient Dead” (originally “The City of Mummies“), “The Black Pirates of Barsoom,” “Escape on Mars” (originally “Yellow Men of Mars”), and the “Invisible Men of Mars.“

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Synthetic Men of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on November 27, 2016November 25, 2016 by Mike Brooks

There have been many versions of the “Beauty and the Beast” story since French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve published her book back in 1740, and in 1939 Edgar Rice Burroughs put his own spin on the tale, but he decided to leave out the Stockholm Syndrome element of the story.

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Swords of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on November 20, 2016November 19, 2016 by Mike Brooks

Welcome back John Carter! With the eighth book in the Barsoom series the narrative switches back to the character who started it all; released in 1936, in the pages of Blue Book, this six part serial was the first time we’d had a John Carter centric story since Warlord of Mars.

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A Fighting Man of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on November 13, 2016March 30, 2018 by Mike Brooks

The only thing possibly more dangerous than love at first sight is walking through a palace garden on Mars. In this seventh book in the Martian Tales by Burroughs, first released in the pages of Blue Book Magazine in 1930, we find our hero falling immediately for a pretty face, and said pretty face is…

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