Sunday, March 29, 2020

Hooks Hits: “Donovan’s Brain”

Part of a series saluting artist-illustrator Mitchell Hooks.



Donovan’s Brain, by Curt Siodmak (Popular Library, 1961). This work of science-fiction first saw print in a 1943 hardcover edition from Alfred A. Knopf. It went on to be adapted into three different movies: The Lady and the Monster (1944), Donovan’s Brain (1953), and The Brain (1962). German-American novelist Siodmak penned more than a dozen books, but he was quite a bit more prolific as a screenwriter, producing the scripts for such Hollywood horror classics as The Wolf Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, and The Beast with Five Fingers.

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3 comments:

  1. Rick RobinsonMarch 29, 2020 at 12:05 PM

    Interesting that there doesn't seem to be or have been a book about Hooks and his artwork.

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  2. Rob PriceMarch 30, 2020 at 5:19 AM

    The hardcover is from 1943. Donovan's Brain was first serialized in three 1942 issues of Black Mask magazine. There was also a radio adaptation (starring Orson Welles), a radio parody of same (also starring Orson Welles) and maybe a TV adaptation. (I have a copy of the script for this but not sure if it was made.)

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  3. J. Kingston PierceMarch 30, 2020 at 9:48 AM

    Thanks for clearing that up, Rob. I have made the necessary correction.

    Cheers,
    Jeff

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