The 1957 liquidation of the American News Company, then the primary distributor of pulp magazines, has sometimes been taken as marking the end of the " pulp era "; by that date, many of the famous pulps of the previous generation, including Black Mask, The Shadow, Doc Savage, and Weird Tales, were defunct.

He keeps himself busy by fighting powerful warriors throughout the universe, and has even fought a number of assorted Earth superheroes, including The Thing, both the Incredible Hulk and the She-Hulk, Colossus, Sasquatch, Thor, Doc Samson, and Wonder Man.

Doc relates the news to Tony, who has been dreaming of heading to the countryside to have children with Maria.

So Spidey decides to slack off again, by claiming he has a " really important battle to fight " ( later claiming that his opponent is Doc Ock on three separate occasions ).

Doc remains unaware of the Fraggles ' existence, but his dog Sprocket ( performed by Steve Whitmire while the right hand and wagging tail were done by Karen Prell ) has seen them and tries in vain to prove their existence to his master.

Doc has a friend named Ned Shimmelfinney who lives next door to him.

Sprocket has a crush on her pet Airedale Terrier named Marigold just as Doc has a crush on Betty.

Klickitat is located in Washington's 4th congressional district, which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R + 13 and has been represented by Republican Doc Hastings since 1995.

He also has many eccentric relatives including slightly-addled Uncle Herman, or " Doc Jones ", a daffy and slightly pompous inventor whose creations usually wreak havoc on Jughead and / or his friends and his lookalike younger cousin, Souphead.

Micanopy has been used as a location for several major motion pictures including Cross Creek ( 1983 ) and Doc Hollywood ( 1991 ).

She has also made many single television appearances, including playing Jill, the receptionist from Pear Tree Productions, in one episode of the first series of I'm Alan Partridge, a rural dominatrix in Doc Martin as well as roles in Midsomer Murders and Coronation Street.

His mill was built on the point of land that looked south towards a small island ( Denny's Island, part of his land purchase from Doc Maynard ) that has since been filled in around and is the heart of today's Pioneer Square.

Her father is Doc Dedham, whom she has never met, but who now has inherited a large block of stock in the family company, making him the majority stockholder.

She travels to Haleakaloha in hope of finding proof that Doc has violated an outdated ( but still in effect ) morality clause in the will which would enable her to keep him from inheriting the stock and retain control.

Doc Velie admits that something terrible happened four years ago and that Smith has everyone too terrified to speak up.

Doc has one.

Shiels has said that he has always been unhappy at the group ' stealing their name ', and said of their manager Doc McGhee, " he could be Doc Marten for all I know ... but he's going to get a kick up the arse ".

The Piedmont style of guitar playing has also influenced other popular musicians such as Doc Watson, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Ralph McTell, and Mark Knopfler.

A statement issued December 29, 2006, by the House Ethics Committee Chairman Doc Hastings ( R-Wash .) and Ranking Minority Member Howard Berman ( D-Calif .), said that Conyers acknowledged what he characterized as a " lack of clarity " in his communications with staff members regarding their official duties and responsibilities, and accepted responsibility for his actions.

Doc Daneeka shows he has a total lack of empathy for anyone else and he can only think about his own unfortunate circumstances, characterised with his constant lament " Why me?

* Doc Burton – A doctor who, despite his skepticism of leftist views, works in the strikers ' camp, ensuring that it cannot be disbanded on the basis of a lack of sanitation.

Vincent ( DeVito ) was placed in an orphanage run by nuns in Los Angeles, California while Julius ( Schwarzenegger ) was taken to an unnamed South Pacific island and raised by Professor Werner ( one of the scientists involved in the experiment ) like a modern Doc Savage to become highly intelligent, physically very strong and spiritually pure.

In the " 100th " book in the series, Prodigal's Return, Doc upgrades to a modern replica chambered for. 44 center-fire cartridges.

Steel-string guitars are also important in the world of flatpicking, as utilized by such artists as Clarence White, Tony Rice, Bryan Sutton, Doc Watson and David Grier.

Zonker, still not ready for the “ real world ”, was living with Mike and JJ until he was accepted as a medical student at his Uncle Duke ’ s “ Baby Doc College ” in Haiti.

Peckinpah's world is a man's world, and feminists have castigated his films as misogynistic and sexist, especially concerning the shooting of a woman during the final moments of The Wild Bunch, the rape sequence in Straw Dogs and Doc McCoy's physical assault of his wife in The Getaway.

The lyrics include a reference from an excerpt from Doc Pomus ’ s uncompleted memoir, February 21, 1984: " I was never one of those happy cripples who stumbled around smiling and shiny-eyed, trying to get the world to cluck its tongue and shake its head sadly in my direction.

In Aaron Allston's Doc Sidhe our " grim world " is paralleled by a " fair world " where the elves live and history echoes ours.

* Doc Savage, the most popular character of the Pulp Era and an adventure series based on scientific detection, was seen as a perfect match for the Fair's " world of the future " concept and hence tapped by the World's Fair President Grover Whalen to do a Grand Opening cross promotion with publishing house Street & Smith.

He was inadvertently teleported by Doc Whiskers, a doctor who created a " spike " that was supposed to take him to the real world, but brought Frank to Cool World instead.

They get Jennifer, the daughter of Jack's neighbor to drive them to the casino, and on the way, Frank explains that it was Doc Whiskers who crossed worlds and put the spike on the top of the hotel and if it were removed, it could potentially destroy both the real world and the Cool World.

According to The Stratocaster Chronicles ( a book by Tom Wheeler ; Hal Leonard Pub., Milwaukee, WI ; 2004, p. 108 ), Mr. Randall assembled what Mr. Fender's original partner Doc Kauffman called “ a sales distributorship like nobody had ever seen in the world .” Randall worked closely with the immensely talented photographer / designer Bob Perine.

However, Henry Barstow seems to be a cover name for Conway Carruthers, a Doc Savage-sque superhero who has realized that the Kassen secret poses " a serious menace to world peace " and who, accordingly, has made it his job to rid the world of that danger by destroying all copies of Kassen's papers.

With A. D. (" Doc ") Lloyd, a self-educated, self-proclaimed geologist, he discovered the largest oil field in the world up to that time, the East Texas oil field, in 1930 in Rusk County.

At the age of 13, he secured a five-year £ 5, 000-a-year sponsorship deal with the Doc Martens shoe company and stated his ambitions of winning the World Championship and becoming world number one.

The book ends when Danny is hailed as " the champion of the world " by William, Doc Spencer, and Sgt.

Doc, Marty, and Jennifer return to a drastically altered 1985 in which Hill Valley has been subjugated by Biff, and other portions of world history have been perverted.

Meanwhile, this has been witnessed by Doc, who believes that they are up to no good, and he begins to remember what he was like with Lola.

Doc Daneeka futilely composes his second letter which she now believes to be a hoax.

Carol tells Doc he will have to trust someone but he replies that he only believes in money.

Doc ( Walter Matthau ) is the only one aboard who believes in Pulver's potential at all.