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James Bama Doc Savage

If you’re like me and you absolutely love the James Bama Doc Savage book covers like I do, you’ll really appreciate this link as it provides the whole run of his excellent covers, covers which really made me interested in the character and the stories:

http://thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com/2014/12/james-bama-doc-savage.html

Of all the ones he did, my favorite is probably this one:

I just love the sense of adventure and mystery presented in the image.  My second favorite would probably be this one:

What Mr. Bama did so well was create this otherworldly looking main character (in the original pulps he looked more like a Buster Crabbe) and put him into a picture that beautifully hinted at the pulp adventure that awaited you in the book itself.  I don’t know what the original Doc Savage creators/writers (particularly main author Lester Dent, who passed away years before the first of these covers were to appear) might think of Mr. Bama’s reinterpretation of the character, but for me this is THE look of Doc Savage.

Check out the rest!