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Episode 579 - Doctor Satan (Patreon)

Published:
2022-01-13 23:38:42
Edited:
2022-01-13 23:39:26
Imported:
2022-01

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In the darkest of night, an evil beeper impinges on the eardrums... it's DOCTOR SATAN!!

(by Paul Ernst)

Special thanks to reader Erik Peabody for kicking ass. Enlist his audio mastery at Viking Guitar Productions, for you are weak and small yet deserve to be mighty!

Next up:

Blood for the Vampire Dead by Robert Leslie Bellem

Bat Man by Lew Merrill

And a MANIMAL!


Comments

Anonymous

This story puts the p u in pulp, exactly where it belongs. I realize in a recent show you just referenced Mr. Kix and Dr. Go (sp?), but if any show demands a call back to that titan of the genre, Doctor Satan was it. I half expected either Chris or Chad to admit Paul Ernst's series was the inspiration for the admittedly superior Mr. Kix and Dr. Go, and had been waiting for a decade to finally cover it on the show. FYE, I understand that Satan was not really a doctor but did play one on TV.

Anonymous

It may be a reaction to the cover illustration, but I couldn’t help but envisage the Evil Dr Satan’s outfit as a cheap store-bought Halloween costume with a pair of red Marigolds, like he’d put together his supervillain costume from what he could find in his mum’s basement.

Anonymous

I read a bunch of the Avenger novels when they were reprinted in the early 70s. I remember them as being entertaining enough for a younger teenager, although the character's main "trick" was that he could use chemicals to reshape his face to mimic the appearance of anyone, and he carried around a case with all sorts of disguise elements like wigs and false eyebrows and a whole lot of dentures, since he had had his teeth pulled to be a better master of disguise (this is a terrible plan; don't do it). I might revisit them again, although I expect they are racist AF, and that would make me sad, so I will probably leave my childhood in peace. You might consider doing a Spider novel sometime -- they are fairly loopy and kind of intense -- if Batman fights crime because he wants to save other children from suffering like he did, the Spider fights crime because he REALLY REALLY HATES CRIMINALS!!!!! Lots of armies of tommygun-toting goons. They aren't Weird, but the are definitely weird. Alternatively, maybe one of the I.V. Frost stories by Donald Wandrei, correspondent of Lovecraft. There's a couple of collections out there. They are mysteries solved by magic, no, wait! it's super-science! with a cool mysteryman who is contiinually upstaged by his plucky assistant.

Anonymous

In other news: Oh, Jesus, no more Manimal. Couldn't we just have a marathon read of Dr. Satan?

Anonymous

Dr. Satan needs a theme song - https://youtu.be/Y-XSFPMGIqg

Anonymous
>>75670202

Just wait, when they run out of Manimal, they will cover Automan.

Anonymous

Wow, this is really bad but so much fun to listen to.

Anonymous

There is something to be said for a story where the cover image and title are more alluring than the tale itself. But my is this an arrestingly bizarre pulp fest. Its entertainment value is like injecting yourself with Burroughs, Howard, and Sam Spade with a shot of Raymond Chandler on acid, only it isn’t as well written as that would imply. This is almost the Manos Hands of Fate version of Carnaki. I actually just picked up the set of Dr. Satan tales on Kindle for a lark. Thank you two for introducing what I hope are an amusing series of pulpy, incomprehensibly bad stories, and what was definitely a very entertaining half hour. Have you guys watched the amazingly awful movie, the Wild World of Batwoman? I swear it’s cut from the same cloth. And the Mystery Science Theater 3000 is full of hilarious riffs on it.

Anonymous

This was just so, so, so much fun to listen, especially after a particularly long and especially stupid day at work. When Chad explained how everything in the story was happening organically, I had to stop the podcast because I was laughing so hard I hurt myself. Well done! You've treated this spectacular nonsense with the proper reverence. and I'm really looking forward to more pulp fiction and weird crime in the coming weeks.

Anonymous

So, on a tactical level, I have to disagree that killing somebody with a tree growing out of their head doesn’t send as strong as a message as killing them with a sudden gout of flame. The flame is impermanent, and if you’re left with anything at all it’s a pile of ash. With the tree thing ya got some lasting body horror going there, and plenty of space for people to make religious connections with thorns and all… I wish there was some way for me to make this funny… and I’m sure there is. I just can’t think of it right now.

Anonymous
>>75669890

Thank you for telling me that having all my teeth pulled out just so I can be a better master of disguise is a bad idea, I was starting to think about where all my pliers are.

Steve

Any chance you could get Jess Nevins along to talk about weird pulps?

Anonymous

I'm getting comfortable with the new name of your show, but do us old-timers a favor: the next time Erik Peabody reads, make a deep cut reference to your "At the Mountains of Madness" shows and mispronounce his name as "Pibody" throughout.

Bryce Perry

Loved the episode except for the mispronunciation of the word "wizened". The first syllable is pronounced like "whiz" not like "wise." It's a common mistake and one I made as a middle schooler only to have my school teacher aunt ridicule me for the pronunciation.

Anonymous

To me it’s very much a written version of the “edgier” radio shows. And I must say when he calls out to god, and you guys commented I was thinking what would a modern “educated” person call out to?

Anonymous

Stanley Flatbush - child prodigy and polymath, Harvard graduate, having aced his board exams was finally ready to truly begin his life’s work of healing the sick, curing the incurable and general saintly behaviour. Little did he know that the cadillac of his life was about to take a dreadful turn into the cul de sac of evil due to one terrible typographical error… FLATBUSH: No! No, it’s supposed to be Doctor Stan Flatbush! REGISTRAR: Sorry buddy, it says it right here in black and white - Doctor Satan Flatbush. FLATBUSH: It’s obviously a typo! C’mon, you gotta change it, this is going to ruin my career! Who’s gonna take their children to see Dr Satan?!? REGISTRAR: Look bub, the form’s the form. FLATBUSH: Great. Just great. Now I’ve got to go learn the occult arts, hypnotism, botany, Egyptology... At least it’s almost Halloween, so getting the costume won’t be so tough… THUS WAS BORN DOCTOR SATAN!!!

Anonymous

I love the pulps. You have your good pulps - Lovecraft, Howard, Smith, Chandler, et al. - the hero pulps - The Shadow, Doc Savage, G-8 and his Battle Aces, etc. - and this stuff, Doctor Satan and the like, a clear riff on Fu Manchu (but with surprisingly less racism). Overwrought, melodramatic, lurid, violent, and with clear precursors to the fantastic powers of the comic books that would come later, I love it. A steady diet will kill you, though, you can only digest a little at a time. I hope you do more Doctor Satan stuff, because this was a lot of fun. Has anyone else read <i>The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril</i> by Paul Malmont? Its a metafictional pulp adventure, where the writers of The Shadow and the Doc Savage novels team up (with a bunch of other pulp names, including Bob Heinlein and Louis L'Amour) to fight a post-modern Fu Manchu style villain (Sax Rohmer's creation casts a long shadow, which even encompasses Batman's arch-nemesis Ra's al Ghul). The most notable bit for this crowd is that our friend Howard Philip appears in the book, and gets some important scenes, and all the writer's lives and characters reflect their fiction pretty heavily. Not appropriate for the podcast, its not horror and Malmont is still alive, but I still recommend folks give it a read if they haven't already.

Anonymous

I take Chad at his word that he’s got other fantastic audio shenanigans in the works to fill our ears with to waste time on the fabulous fecund mess, but Chris couldn’t this at least get a short animation a la LSEK? At least that magazine cover?

Anonymous

What, no Dana Carvey impression?

Anonymous

I was inspired to use HeroForge to mock up Doctor Satan killing someone with a brain-tree (aha! Now we know the sinister reason for the Boston suburb!), but alas, I cannot post it here for your admiration.

Anonymous

There is a great mash up called “House of 1000 Muppets” (Rob Zombie’s “House of 1000 Corpses” and “Muppet Movie”). I can’t help hearing Fozzie Bear saying Dr Satan when I listen to this episode. I apologize for my digression. https://youtu.be/HucERcMMuys

Anonymous

I hope the rest of the "Doctor Satan" series improves on its debut. I think Paul Ernst was trying for The Shadow vs. Fu Manchu, but hadn't figured out how to make his hero or villain interesting. True, a man in a devil costume committing murder with shrubbery is *memorable,* but that's not quite the same thing as *interesting.* Happily, that issue of WEIRD TALES also has one of Seabury Quinn's "Jules de Grandin" stories *and* something by "Anne of Green Gables" author L.M. Montgomery, which more than makes up for Ernst's shortcomings.

Anonymous

The lost ending reveals the tragic dyslexia that led an innocent Father Christmas enthusiast to a life of pyromania, toady wrangling, and brutal botany.

Anonymous

Man this story is super ridiculous, I love it. Definitely what I'd expect from something called Doctor Satan. Although I'll be honest all I could think about during this episode is a medical drama set in Hell. It'd just be House but in Hell and Satan is House. Reminded me of a concept I had years ago of a weekly comic strip about a janitor in Hell. Just cleaning up after Satan and all the horrible things he gets up to. Also, there better be more Manimal in the future. Don't be playing with my heart!

Ben Gilbert

Paul Ernst wrote the Avenger series using the name Kenneth Robeson, the house name of Street &amp; Smith. Kenneth Robeson's Doc Savage was written by Lester Dent.