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This is the kind of book pulp fans dream about: A team-up starring three front-rank heroes – The Spider, Operator 5 and G-8.Will Murray, as I’m sure you know, has already brought us two meetings between Doc Savage and The Shadow as well as King Kong mash-ups with both Doc and Tarzan, all from the modern-day pulp factory known as Altus Press. And now comes The Doom Legion, bringing together the top three do-gooders of the Popular Publications universe.The Spider gets top billing here, and rightly...
Very fun read, at least for pulp fans. Unlike Doc Savage books, of which I have read all, I have read just a fraction of Spider, Operator 5, and G-8 novels, mostly due to lack of availability. However I always enjoyed the insane apocalyptic mayhem of the Spider stories (very much on a different level from Doc), the War and Peace of the pulps "Purple Invasion" series involving Operator 5, and G-8's bizarre WWI antics. As usual Will Murray is able to emulate the style of these stories perfectly, a...
“Author Scores Another Hit”A month after Machines-guns Over The White House, and almost twenty years after WWI, Herr Stahlmaske and Count Carmine Calypsa show up at a Halloween costume ball where Richard Wentworth and Nita Van Sloan are in attendance. Stahlmaske is after his old helmet from WWI, while Calypsa wants to kill Police Commissioner Stanley Kirkpatrick. Neither villain is aware of each other yet. Before anything can happen a green radioactive meteorite crashes into Central Park and sta...
Another "wild adventure," written by Will Murray, this one not concerned with Doc Savage or The Shadow, but focused instead on The Spider and two other pulp action heroes from the first half of the 20th Century -- G-8 and Operator 5.This one was a tough read. I've had it for a while and struggled to find any rhythm that would drive me through the narrative. That is, until I read a few more of the pulps featuring The Spider, most recently the reprints put out by Altus Press. Those helped me gain
Another fast paced and entertaining book from the always excellent Will Murray.
There were some fun things in this book that I enjoyed, but I really -wanted- to like it a whole lot more than I actually did. It's a three-way team-up story, with Richard Wentworth, The Spider, being joined by Jimmy Christopher, Operator 5, and the never-named-in-his-own-time hero G-8. G-8 was a World War I spy and flying ace who starred in 110 novels by Robert J. Hogan, so having him appear in this Spider book twenty years after the end of the War seemed problematical to me at best. Operator 5...
I am a fan of the pulps since I found a Doc Savage novel at a Stuckey’s on a long family road trip, and the fact that Will Murray is continuing the adventures of some of the more famous characters has been a welcome development. In the novel “The Doom Legion”, Murray brings together The Spider, Operator 5 and G8 (without his Battle Aces) to fight a pair of foes from both G8 and The Spider’s past.The story starts with a bang as a meteor that causes people to become mindless monsters who can shoot...
Solid Spider novel. In fact, I think this might be Murray's strongest story that I have read to date. It felt more in line with the stories of the past. I particularly enjoyed the books pacing. It never slowed down. I enjoyed the rapid fire speed of the story. I also enjoyed The Spider, Richard Wentworth as well as Operator 5 and G-8. I thought the use of three major characters fit with the seriousness of the situation before them. I look forward to reading the follow up, Fury in Steel.
Pulp-tastic Sunday sort of stretched into Monday, but that's okay. This week's pulp-y offering was The Doom Legion by Will Murray, which featured one of my favorite pulp characters, The Spider. I like The Spider (AKA Richard Wentworth) because he has no special powers, like The Shadow, and he is not a superman like Doc Savage. Wentworth is just a determined and driven human being. The Spider is often shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, defenestrated, electrocuted, etc and he usually faces overwhelming od...
