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Volume 18, Issue 3 June/July 2008 ConNotations FREE The Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society Doc Savage Featured Inside The Diamond Anniversary of the Man of Bronze Regular Features Special Features by Shane Shellenbarger SF Tube Talk Doc Savage All the latest news about The Diamond Anniversary of the My friend, John Clark, introduced me Scienc Fiction TV shows Man of Bronze to Clark Savage, Jr., when I was a high by Lee Whiteside By Shane Shellenbarger school sophomore. John lent me five of the Bantam paperback reprints, but that 24 Frames An Amercan in Australia was woefully inadequate to appease my All the latest Movie News by Jeffrey Lu book-a-day reading habit. 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