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Weird Heroes, Volume 5
Doc Phoenix: The Oz Encounter
1977
First Published
3.33
Average Rating
216
Number of Pages

Part of Series

Doc Phoenix enters the mind of a comatose 10-year-old girl. There he finds a warped version of Oz. While solving the psychological mystery, a character from Oz appears in the real world, attacking Doc's friends and his headquarters. In the afterward, co-author Ted White writes Doc Phoenix is essentially a pairing of Doc Savage and Roger Zelazny's Dream Master. Like Doc Savage, Doc Phoenix has a large bulky scientist pal and a lawyer pal, and the two pals argue continually. The story profusely illustrated by Stephen Fabian. Cover painting by Jeff Jones. Introduction and afterward by the editor, Byron Preiss.

Avg Rating
3.33
Number of Ratings
30
5 STARS
17%
4 STARS
20%
3 STARS
50%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
7%
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Author

Ted White
Ted White
Author · 9 books
Theodore Edwin ("Ted") White is a Hugo Award-winning American writer, known as a science fiction author and editor as well as a music critic. In addition to books and stories written under his own name, he has also co-authored novels with Dave van Arnam as Ron Archer, and with Terry Carr as Norman Edwards.
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