The Complete Doc Unknown

by Fabian Rangel Jr., Ryan Cody (Illustrator), Ed Brisson (Illustrator)

Overview

After crash-landing his fighter plane during World War II, Warren Williams is taken in and trained by the warrior monks of the secret temple of Min-Yao. After a Nazi ambush, Warren returns to Gate City as Doc Unknown, a mystery man on the side of light in a world being consumed by darkness.

Read as Doc Unknown must protect Gate City from ruthless gangsters, monstrous mobsters, possessed museum attractions, evil secret societies, vampire ninjas, vengeful ghosts, hypnotizing fish-women, and much more!

From Fabian Rangel Jr. (Space Riders) and Ryan Cody (The Phantom) come the pulse-pounding supernatural pulp adventures of DOC UNKNOWN!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630088286
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	133 MB
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Editorial Reviews

09/01/2017
Set in the mid-1940s and created in the tradition of pulp heroes such as Doc Savage and The Shadow, Doc Unknown was a fighter pilot until crashing his plane and discovering a secret temple guarded by an ancient order of warrior monks. After becoming a master of their discipline, Doc travels to Gate City and does battle with mad scientists, vampire ninjas, ghosts, Nazis, mob bosses, and monsters, investigates the haunted typewriter of a deceased sf author and the lingering legacy of the lost city of Atlantis, somehow managing to find the time to fall in love. A series of short stories from Rangel Jr. (Space Riders) depicting our hero's adventures in the first half of this volume gradually wind together to form a larger narrative, as his various enemies combine forces in order to seek revenge in what turns out to be a rather sweeping tale. Cody's (Monstrous) illustrations are a little more cartoonish than the sometimes moody scripts seems to call for, but they make up for that in dynamism and inventive character design. This hardcover collects material previously released in series volumes 1–3. VERDICT An action-packed romp refreshingly free of irony, perhaps slightly too macabre to be considered for all-ages but perfect for fans of superheroes, sf, or horror looking for something that combines all the best parts of those genres.—TB

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