Doc Savage (1975)

Marvel's black-and-white magazine, August 1975 to 1977, written by Doug Moench, in Dynamite's Doc Savage Archives The Man of Bronze has had plenty of comics, and this short magazine run plays him as straight pulp. The first issue sets the tone: a New York skyscraper reduced to rubble by a mysterious lightning bolt, and a trail that ends with a psychotic genius on his island hideaway, drawn by John Buscema and inked by Tony DeZuniga. The bigger magazine page and black-and-white art give the action room to breathe. It lasted only eight issues, all reprinted in Dynamite's 2015 hardcover The Curtis Magazine Era, so it is a quick binge. Pick it for a straight-faced Doc Savage adventure rather than a modern reinvention.