YES! Blackmask.com is reprinting Doc Savage!
If anybody’s greatful for the news, buy me one! 
I have all these, but I need to free download one to see if they are doing magazine facsimiles or just the text of the adventure. I bought one of the original mags (from WW II time) which has not been reprinted, and the ads, as usual, are worth the price of the magazine.
Since the early ones are so available in the Bantam editions, it would be nice if they started reprinting the later ones.
Must have been in response to Brock Samson of The Venture Brothers, to show that not all muscle-bound men are roid-ragers.
I’m going to take a guess: they’ll likely be facsimilies at that price. Blackmask likes to do everything automatically (he talks about writing a program that would take works from Gutenberg, reformat them and then resell them, I believe w/o the Gutenberg text, which is a violation of their terms). Generally though, the books are dirt cheap with some absolutely awul formatting.
Explain why a true reproduction of the original printing would be bad? 
THE TOP TEN REASONS YOU MIGHT BE A DOC SAVAGE FAN
by Nick Pollotta
(with apologies to Lester Dent)
10. You only ride in cars on the running boards.
9. Whenever you’re happy, there’s a weird thrilling noise.
8. You keep the car keys at the bottom of a piranha tank.
7. You’re disappointed when elevators don’t start suddenly traveling sideways at 90 miles per hour.
6. You’ve nicknamed your VW Bug, “Helldiver”.
5. Listening to a bull fiddle play in a philharmonic orchestra makes you want to duck for cover.
4. You refer to the toolshed in the backyard as your Fortress of Solitude.
3. You flatly refuse to have more than five friends.
2. You consider Buckaroo Banzai your illegitimate son.
And the top reason you might be a Doc Savage fan is…
- You spend every waking moment fixing those damn ripped shirts!
I had the paperback book text reprints that came out in the 70s=) I loved them, hated the movie [I though that playing it as a comedy was just wrong…] and I would love to see it remade properly.
Aybody else ever read the Doc Sidhe novels by <cant remember his name, publised by Baen Books, a free one can be found at webscriptions.net in the free library, registration required. worksafe link unless they dont like you reading sf at work=)]
I’ve got both Doc Sidhe #1  .
Haven’t gotten around to reading #2 yet…but a nice treatment, in a weird kinda way.
Where did I say that it would be bead? The books you have linked to are ebooks. Blackmask automates the formatting, which I doubt leads to very aesthetically pleasing results. What’s the confusion?
It would, however, be cool if it was a reprint, but I’ve got a feeling that he’d be working from less-than-optimal copies, making for a lot of grey.
Are these e-books?
Or printed volumes.
Reply urgently requested!
:eek:
:smack: I looked at the table the items were on and it said “ebook format” and, knowing what I know about BM, I assumed they were ebooks. Clicking on the link to the first volume, I see it’s an actual book. If that’s the case, I will assume that it’s a replica, but there’s nothing to say (I actually read the link this time!).
That said, all the books are available for free text download.
:smack: Again for good measure.
Many thanks for your efgforts & prompt reply.
You are very courteous. 
I couldn’t figure out how to get to the download part. Perhaps you need to establish an account. I don’t caring, owning the paperbacks of all the ones they have, but they also seem to have a nice collection of pulp magazines.
Okay, I also could not figure out the download part, so I just ordered the first one. I’ll repost when I get it and let y’all know how it turns out.
Looks like once you have an account, you can get to the free downloads. I checked one (The Thousand-Headed Man) in Acrobat format, and it’s pretty much a straight text dump with minimal formatting. I’m hoping that the printed version will be better… but not holding out too much hope.
As an aside, I hate hate hate the practice of hiding the links in text. If you’re going to make the damn text a link, let the underline show, don’t make me mouse over it to see that it’s a link.
Grrr.
These are illegal, bootleg editions created using some kind of print-on-demand technology. He’s used cover and interior art from other sites on the web to create a kind of pulp magazine feel, but this is not an exact facsimile or reproduction of the original magazine.
This guy may think the books are in the public domain. He is badly mistaken. Conde Naste Publications owns the copyrights for all the original Doc Savage novels as well as the trademark on the character. Recently they’ve cracked down on a number of websites that had been publishing Doc Savage and Shadow novels as free e-texts, and I can’t imagine why they haven’t come after this guy. I assume they will sooner or later.
Aha! I knew that guy was up to something. Ripping text from PG was bad enough.
Why do you think they’re unlicensed?
The folks on alt.fan.doc-savage have something to say about it:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=FnfUc.475%249o1.173%40bignews4.bellsouth.net
Hm. I suspect I may be aiding and abetting piracy. That makes me angry.