The've started with stories that haven't been published in decades. A small number of the Shadow novels were reprinted back in the 60s and 70s, and all the Doc Savage stories were republished, with a half dozen new ones thrown in at the end. There are over 280 Shadow novels and close to 190 Doc Savage stories.

As to the "greatest stories" marker, as I understand it, this comes from the original polls the publisher had used.

Now, why care about these two characters? Both were the forerunners to most modren comic book heroes. There's a lot of the Shadow in Batman and the other vigilante types, while Doc Savage had a Fortress of Solitude before Superman moved into the neighberhood. Both are unique American Characters that should be remembered more then they are.

Craig

Some of it is a little campy (and the rest of it is extremely campy), especially with its Sousa-filk soundtrack, but if you're a fan of Savage, you owe it to yourself to see it at least once. :)

I ordered it myself, and here's my review of the disc.

I looked around at several sites that had copies of the stores for DL, and they have all dried up. Reason most of them were posting the stories on line, it was the only way yo find them. But, now with the stories being republished, the reason for posting them has dried up......

BTW -- It looks like the Spider is joining the group. Baen books has put out a 3-novel the Spider Omnibus, and have plans for a second one....

Craig