Doc Ardan ( #1-3) by Guy d’Armen, Jean-Marc Lofficier (Translator), Randy Lofficier (Translator)
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Overview: Guy d’Armen – apparently the chief pseudonym of an unidentified French author (? -?), active between 1899 and 1939 under this name as well as Francis Annemary, Jacques Diamant, Corentin Goulphar and perhaps others. He specialized in exorbitant tales of adventure, featuring figures at the edge of gaining Superhero status, the most important of these being Doctor Ardan in the Doc Ardan sequence beginning with "La Cite de L’Or et de la Lepre" (1929 Sciences et Voyages; loose trans Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier as Doc Ardan: City of Gold and Lepers 2004), where a Villain capable of making gold from nuclear explosions must be defeated. The close influence of the Doc Savage sequence has, in prefatory matter by Jean-Marc Lofficier, been arduously if not seriously suggested.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Doc Ardan 1: The City of Gold and Lepers (Doc Ardan #1) by Guy d’Armen, Jean-Marc Lofficier (Translator), Randy Lofficier (Translator)
Tibet, 1927. Intrepid explorer Doctor Ardan is taken prisoner by the diabolical Natas, who has discovered the secret of making gold through nuclear fusion, and rules over a city of slaves whom he controls with an unholy brand of leprosy. Can Doc Ardan, with the aid of beautiful Louise Ducharme, thwart the Oriental Mastermind’s evil schemes and escape from the City of Gold and Lepers? Scientist and world-saving explorer Doctor Ardan was created in 1928, five years before Doc Savage. This ground-breaking SF adventure that predicted the use of nuclear energy 16 years before the Manhattan Project has been translated by award-winning authors Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier and includes a historical foreword about the Ardan family, from Michel Ardan (From the Earth to the Moon) to Dale Arden (Flash Gordon).
Doc Ardan: The Troglodytes of Mount Everest (Doc Ardan #2) by Guy d’Armen, Jean-Marc Lofficier (Translator), Randy Lofficier (Translator)
"Wrong, Doctor!" replied Kyzyl Kaya laughing. "I’m over two hundred fifty years old!"
In The Troglodytes of Mount Everest (1929), young Francis Ardan, who has just earned his title of Doctor, embarks for a cruise around the world, but ends up fighting Captain Mendax, a science pirate and the master of a super-powered flying machine and submarine, The Astaroth, built according to the late Captain Nemo’s designs. In The Giants of Black Lake (1931), Doctor Ardan comes across an underground city in Mongolia ruled by the fearsome Kyzyl Kaya, a 250-year-old scientist who has created a horde of giant spiders and other colossal creatures to guard his lair and conquer the world. Scientist and world-saving explorer Doctor Ardan was created in 1928, five years before Doc Savage. These two ground-breaking SF adventures have been translated by award-winning authors Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier.
Contents:
- Les Troglodytes du Mont Everest (1929)
Les Géants du Lac Noir (1931)
The Reluctant Princess (by Randy Lofficier)
Introduction and Guy d’Armen Bibliography by Jean-Marc Lofficier
Doc Ardan and the Abominable Snowman (Doc Ardan #3) by Guy d’Armen, Jean-Marc Lofficier (Editor), Randy Lofficier (Editor)
Doctor Francis Ardan, intrepid explorer and polymath, was created in the 1920s by French writer Guy d’Armen for the French pulp magazine, L’Intrépide. After publishing three of his novel-length adventures in English, we offer here four original short stories taken from the pages of L’Intrépide, in which see the fearless hero tackle a Yeti, a Witch Doctor, a vampire and a giant bat. In addition, this collection contains twelve other stories, including four written especially for this volume, in which Doc Ardan faces such exotic threats as the Beast of Gevaudan, the Queen of Atlantis, Natas the Devil Doctor, the Morlocks and more. The book also includes a new listing of Ardan stories and “Before the Bronze Age,” an article revealing the connections between Ardan and a world-famous bronze hero.
Contents:
- Before the Bronze Age
Additional Bibliography
Guy d’Armen: From the Archives of the Société Secrète des Aventuriers
1. The Abominable Snowman.
2. The Giant Bat
3. The Vampire of the Hamada.
4. The Lair of the Javanese Witch-Doctor
Rick Lai: The Midas Menace. (new)
John Peel: The Biggest Guns.
Jean-Marc Lofficier: The Star Prince.
Vincent Jounieaux: The Dreadful Conspiracy.
Travis Hiltz: Family Reunion
Jason Scott Aiken: Ardan at the Pole. 1
Christopher Paul Carey & Win Scott Eckert: Iron and Bronze.
Matthew Dennion: A Scientist First and Foremost (new)
Peter Gabbani: Small Dreams of a Floating City. (new)
Win Scott Eckert: The Eye of Oran.
Win Scott Eckert: Les Lèvres Rouges.
Win Scott Eckert: The Vanishing Devil
Credits.
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