MY MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES 11

MEN'S TRUE DANGER from April, 1963. Possibly the best of all of my men's adventure mags. That cover art and copy says it all. This is what "men's sweat" mags are all about. Purchased at a 2012 City Wide Garage Sale. 

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MAN'S STORY for June, 1961. Purchased at a 2012 City Wide Garage Sale. 

CASTING DOC: THE FINAL CHAPTER

Paul Gleason (above), played the part of Major Thomas J. Roberts, aka "Long Tom" in the 1975 DOC  SAVAGE movie. Long Tom was perhaps the weakest (in more ways than one) member of Doc's team and was certainly one of the least developed. An expert in electricity, Long Tom was consistently described as "puny", "weak", "scrawny", "pale", etc. In short, a rather unhealthy looking individual. It's hard to find actors that fit that description to play the part of Long Tom in our imaginary DOC SAVAGE movies, but I'm going to give it a go with some choices that are slightly off beat.

Elisha Cook, Jr. 

Whit Bissell


Don Knotts

John Fiedler

Strother Martin

Dennis Hopper

Christopher Walken

There you go, my choices for Long Tom and in other, recent blog posts, Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Pat and Johnny. What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Who would you cast in an imaginary DOC SAVAGE film? I'd love to hear comments and feedback from any and all Doc fans who are readers of this blog. I hope you had as much fun reading these as I did putting them together. 

SON OF CASTING DOC

Actor Eldon Quick (pictured above) played the part of Johnny in the 1975 DOC SAVAGE movie. William Harper Littlejohn as the character was formally known, was the world's foremost expert on geology and archeology. He was bespectacled and had a penchant for using an extraordinarily large vocabulary. Here are some other actors that would have made good "Johnny's" in those un-produced, imaginary DOC SAVAGE movies I'm so fond of.

William Schallert

Herbert Anderson

Tony Randall

Wally Cox

Ray Walston



Russell Johnson

MY MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES 9

MAN'S ILLUSTRATED for September, 1960, cover features British General Bernard L. Montgomery illustrating a story about his feud with American General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. This was sure to appeal to any veterans buying the mag, as well as WWII buffs in general, but when you're running a story entitled "1,000 Pleasure Dolls For Sale!", I'd think that's the article that deserves the cover illustration. That would be sure to drive sales on this magazine that proclaims it contains "true adventure for bold men". I guess they wouldn't sell it to timid men. Purchased at a 2012 City Wide Garage Sale.

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MAN'S CONQUEST from June, 1965 features a Richard Conte look-alike on the cover plus a James Bond pictorial! Purchased on eBay several years ago. 

BRIDE OF CASTING DOC

To date, no actress has portrayed Doc's cousin Patricia Savage on screen (she's the one on the left in the image above, as if you couldn't tell).While Pat didn't appear in every Doc Savage adventure, she was in enough of them to make her a valuable, important and lovely part of the Doc mythos. It remains to be seen if Pat will appear in the Shane Black Doc Savage film and if so, which contemporary actress will play the part. But here are some choices for Pat in those imaginary, never-to-be-made Doc Savage films over the years.

Maureen O'Hara

Rhonda Fleming


Gina Golan

Sharon Tate

Honor Blackman

Inger Stevens

Jill St. John

Raquel Welch

Ann-Margret

Which one of these lovely ladies would you pick as Pat?