D'Armen, Guy
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
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. [JC]
"Guy d'Armen"
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Doc Ardan
- "La Cite de L'Or et de la Lepre" (1929 Sciences et Voyages) [Doc Ardan: mag/]
- Doc Ardan: City of Gold and Lepers (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2004) [loose trans by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier of the above: Doc Ardan: pb/Dean Zachary]
- "Les Troglodytes du Mont Everest" (1929 L'Intrepide) [Doc Ardan: mag/]
- "Les Géants du Lac Noir" (1931 L'Intrepide) [Doc Ardan: mag/]
- Doc Ardan: The Troglodytes of Mount Everest/The Giants of Black Lake (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2016) [coll of book-length tales: loose trans by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier of the above two: Doc Ardan: pb/Yoz]
- La Fin d'Inramonda (Paris: Offenstadt, 1935) as by Jacques Diamant [Doc Ardan: binding unknown/]
- Doc Ardan: The Fall of Inramonda (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2020) [loose trans by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier of the above together with novella The Eye of the Hawk by John Peel: Doc Ardan: pb/Phil Cohen]
- Doc Ardan: The Abominable Snowman and Other Tales from the Archives of the Société Secrète des Aventuriers (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2016) [anth: loose trans by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier from various sources: plus additional stories originally composed in English: Doc Ardan: pb/Dean Zachary]
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