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Men who turn to stone is the stuff of mythology. There is simply no room for a medusa in the scientific world of 1940. Then a mysterious summons leads Doc Savage to once living men turned to stone! The Man of Bronze and his fearless crew pursue the Medusa ...until the "Stone Death" is turned on Doc Savage himself! Can even he survive its awesome power?
Doc and his courageous crew race to the Far East to combat the Axis plague! Can they solve the mystery of an insidious new weapon certain to turn the tide of the war? What causes the sun to turn red and ships to disappear? Can mere light really turn a man to smoke and ashes? Will Doc and Monk save Ham in time or will he too die under a bleeding sun?
If anyone ever does a graphic novel adaption of Doc Savage it should be Gary Chaloner. If you're not familiar with his work...take a look at Red Kelso. It's ok. We'll wait for you to come back -- with a big smile on your face.
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| Mag | Mag Title |
| 1 | The Man of Bronze |
| 2 | The Land of Terror |
| 3 | Quest of the Spider |
| 4 | The Polar Treasure |
| 5 | Pirate of the Pacific |
| 6 | The Red Skull |
| 7 | The Lost Oasis |
| 8 | The Sargasso Ogre |
| 9 | The Czar of Fear |
| 10 | The Phantom City |
| 11 | Brand of the Werewolf |
| 12 | The Man Who Shook the Earth |
| 13 | Meteor Menace |
| 14 | The Monsters |
| 15 | The Mystery on the Snow |
| 16 | The King Maker |
| 17 | The Thousand-Headed Man |
| 18 | The Squeaking Goblin |
| 19 | Fear Cay |
| 20 | Death in Silver |
| 21 | The Sea Magician |
| 22 | The Annihilist |
| 23 | The Mystic Mullah |
| 24 | Red Snow |
| 25 | Land of Always-Night |
| 26 | The Spook Legion |
| 27 | The Secret in the Sky |
| 28 | The Roar Devil |
| 29 | Quest of Qui |
| 30 | Spook Hole |
| 31 | The Majii |
| 32 | Dust of Death |
| 33 | Murder Melody |
| 34 | The Fantastic lsland |
| 35 | Murder Mirage |
| 36 | Mystery Under the Sea |
| 37 | The Metal Master |
| 38 | The Men Who Smiled No More |
| 39 | The Seven Agate Devils |
| 40 | Haunted Ocean |
| 41 | The Black Spot |
| 42 | The Midas Man |
| 43 | Cold Death |
| 44 | The South Pole Terror |
| 45 | Resurrection Day |
| 46 | The Vanisher |
| 47 | Land of Long Juju |
| 48 | The Derrick Devil |
| 49 | The Mental Wizard |
| 50 | The Terror in the Navy |
| 51 | Mad Eyes |
| 52 | The Land of Fear |
| 53 | He Could Stop the World |
| 54 | Ost |
| 55 | The Feathered Octopus |
| 56 | Repel |
| 57 | The Sea Angel |
| 58 | The Golden Peril |
| 59 | The Living Fire Menace |
| 60 | The Mountain Monster |
| 61 | Devil on the Moon |
| 62 | The Pirate's Ghost |
| 63 | The Motion Menace |
| 64 | The Submarine Mystery |
| 65 | The Giggling Ghosts |
| 66 | The Munitions Master |
| 67 | The Red Terrors |
| 68 | Fortress of Solitude |
| 69 | The Green Death |
| 70 | The Devil Genghis |
| 71 | Mad Mesa |
| 72 | The Yellow Cloud |
| 73 | The Freckled Shark |
| 74 | World's Fair Goblin |
| 75 | The Gold Ogre |
| 76 | The Flaming Falcons |
| 77 | Merchants of Disaster |
| 78 | The Crimson Serpent |
| 79 | Poison Island |
| 80 | The Stone Man |
| 81 | Hex |
| 82 | The Dagger in the Sky |
| 83 | The Other World |
| 84 | The Angry Ghost |
| 85 | The Spotted Men |
| 86 | The Evil Gnome |
| 87 | The Boss of Terror |
| 88 | The Awful Egg |
| 89 | The Flying Goblin |
| 90 | Tunnel Terror |
| 91 | The Purple Dragon |
| 92 | Devils of the Deep |
| 93 | The Awful Dynasty |
| 94 | The Men Vanished |
| 95 | The Devil's Playground |
| 96 | Bequest of Evil |
| 97 | The All-White Elf |
| 98 | The Golden Man |
| 99 | The Pink Lady |
| 100 | The Headless Men |
| 101 | The Green Eagle |
| 102 | Mystery Island |
| 103 | The Mindless Monsters |
| 104 | Birds of Death |
| 105 | The Invisible-Box Murders |
| 106 | Peril in the North |
| 107 | The Rustling Death |
| 108 | Men of Fear |
| 109 | The Too-Wise Owl |
| 110 | The Magic Forest |
| 111 | Pirate Isle |
| 112 | The Speaking Stone |
| 113 | The Man Who Fell Up |
| 114 | The Three Wild Men |
| 115 | The Fiery Menace |
| 116 | The Laugh of Death |
| 117 | They Died Twice |
| 118 | The Devil's Black Rock |
| 119 | The Time Terror |
| 120 | Waves of Death |
| 121 | The Black, Black Witch |
| 122 | The King of Terror |
| 123 | The Talking Devil |
| 124 | The Running Skeletons |
| 125 | Mystery on Happy Bones |
| 126 | The Mental Monster |
| 127 | Hell Below |
| 128 | The Goblins |
| 129 | The Secret of the Su |
| 130 | The Spook of Grandpa Eben |
| 131 | According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic |
| 132 | Death Had Yellow Eyes |
| 133 | The Derelict of Skull Shoal |
| 134 | The Whisker of Hercules |
| 135 | The Three Devils |
| 136 | The Pharaoh's Ghost |
| 137 | The Man Who Was Scared |
| 138 | The Shape of Terror |
| 139 | Weird Valley |
| 140 | Jin San |
| 141 | Satan Black |
| 142 | The Lost Giant |
| 143 | Violent Night |
| 144 | Strange Fish |
| 145 | The Ten-Ton Snakes |
| 146 | Cargo Unknown |
| 147 | Rock Sinister |
| 148 | The Terrible Stork |
| 149 | King Joe Cay |
| 150 | The Wee Ones |
| 151 | Terror Takes 7 |
| 152 | The Thing That Pursued |
| 153 | Trouble on Parade |
| 154 | The Screaming Man |
| 155 | Measures for a Coffin |
| 156 | Se-Pah-Poo |
| 157 | Terror and the Lonely Widow |
| 158 | Five Fathoms Dead |
| 159 | Death is a Round Black Spot |
| 160 | Colors for Murder |
| 161 | Fire and Ice |
| 162 | Three Times a Corpse |
| 163 | The Exploding Lake |
| 164 | Death in Little Houses |
| 165 | The Devil Is Jones |
| 166 | The Disappearing Lady |
| 167 | Target for Death |
| 168 | The Death Lady |
| 169 | Danger Lies East |
| 170 | No Light to Die By |
| 171 | The Monkey Suit |
| 172 | Let's Kill Ames |
| 173 | Once Over Lightly |
| 174 | I Died Yesterday |
| 175 | The Pure Evil |
| 176 | Terror Wears No Shoes |
| 177 | The Angry Canary |
| 178 | The Swooning Lady |
| 179 | The Green Master |
| 180 | Return From Cormoral |
| 181 | Up From Earth's Center |
| 182 | In Hell, Madonna |
| 183 | Escape from Loki |
| 184 | Python Isle |
| 185 | White Eyes |
| 186 | The Frightened Fish |
| 187 | The Jade Ogre |
| 188 | Flight into Fear |
| 189 | The Whistling Wraith |
| 190 | The Forgotten Realm |
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| No. | Bantam Title |
| 1 | The Man of Bronze |
| 2 | The Thousand-Headed Man |
| 3 | Meteor Menace |
| 4 | The Polar Treasure |
| 5 | Brand of the Werewolf |
| 6 | The Lost Oasis |
| 7 | The Monsters |
| 8 | The Land of Terror |
| 9 | The Mystic Mullah |
| 10 | The Phantom City |
| 11 | Fear Cay |
| 12 | Quest of Qui |
| 13 | Land of Always-Night |
| 14 | The Fantastic lsland |
| 15 | Murder Melody |
| 16 | The Spook Legion |
| 17 | The Red Skull |
| 18 | The Sargasso Ogre |
| 19 | Pirate of the Pacific |
| 20 | The Secret in the Sky |
| 21 | Cold Death |
| 22 | The Czar of Fear |
| 23 | Fortress of Solitude |
| 24 | The Green Eagle |
| 25 | The Devil's Playground |
| 26 | Death in Silver |
| 27 | Mystery Under the Sea |
| 28 | The Deadly Dwarf |
| 29 | The Other World |
| 30 | The Flaming Falcons |
| 31 | The Annihilist |
| 32 | Dust of Death |
| 33 | The Terror in the Navy |
| 34 | Mad Eyes |
| 35 | The Squeaking Goblin |
| 36 | Resurrection Day |
| 37 | Hex |
| 38 | Red Snow |
| 39 | World's Fair Goblin |
| 40 | The Dagger in the Sky |
| 41 | Merchants of Disaster |
| 42 | The Gold Ogre |
| 43 | The Man Who Shook the Earth |
| 44 | The Sea Magician |
| 45 | The Men Who Smiled No More |
| 46 | The Midas Man |
| 47 | Land of Long Juju |
| 48 | The Feathered Octopus |
| 49 | The Sea Angel |
| 50 | Devil on the Moon |
| 51 | Haunted Ocean |
| 52 | The Vanisher |
| 53 | The Mental Wizard |
| 54 | He Could Stop the World |
| 55 | The Golden Peril |
| 56 | The Giggling Ghosts |
| 57 | Poison Island |
| 58 | The Munitions Master |
| 59 | The Yellow Cloud |
| 60 | The Majii |
| 61 | The Living Fire Menace |
| 62 | The Pirate's Ghost |
| 63 | The Submarine Mystery |
| 64 | The Motion Menace |
| 65 | The Green Death |
| 66 | Mad Mesa |
| 67 | The Freckled Shark |
| 68 | Quest of the Spider |
| 69 | The Mystery on the Snow |
| 70 | Spook Hole |
| 71 | Murder Mirage |
| 72 | The Metal Master |
| 73 | The Seven Agate Devils |
| 74 | The Derrick Devil |
| 75 | The Land of Fear |
| 76 | The Black Spot |
| 77 | The South Pole Terror |
| 78 | The Crimson Serpent |
| 79 | The Devil Genghis |
| 80 | The King Maker |
| 81 | The Stone Man |
| 82 | The Evil Gnome |
| 83 | The Red Terrors |
| 84 | The Mountain Monster |
| 85 | The Boss of Terror |
| 86 | The Angry Ghost |
| 87 | The Spotted Men |
| 88 | The Roar Devil |
| 89 | The Magic Island |
| 90 | The Flying Goblin |
| 91 | The Purple Dragon |
| 92 | The Awful Egg |
| 93 | Tunnel Terror |
| 94 | The Hate Genius |
| 95 | The Red Spider |
| 96 | Mystery on Happy Bones |
| 97 | Satan Black |
| 98 | Cargo Unknown |
| 99 | Hell Below |
| 100 | The Lost Giant |
| 101 | The Pharaoh's Ghost |
| 102 | The Time Terror |
| 103 | The Whisker of Hercules |
| 104 | The Man Who Was Scared |
| 105 | They Died Twice |
| 106 | The Screaming Man |
| 107 | Jin San |
| 108 | The Black, Black Witch |
| 109 | The Shape of Terror |
| 110 | Death Had Yellow Eyes |
| 111 | One-Eyed Mystic |
| 112 | The Man Who Fell Up |
| 113 | The Talking Devil |
| 114 | The Ten-Ton Snakes |
| 115 | Pirate Isle |
| 116 | The Speaking Stone |
| 117 | The Golden Man |
| 118 | Peril in the North |
| 119 | The Laugh of Death |
| 120 | The King of Terror |
| 121 | The Three Wild Men |
| 122 | The Fiery Menace |
| 123 | Devils of the Deep |
| 124 | The Headless Men |
| 125 | The Goblins |
| 126 | The Secret of the Su |
| 127 | The All-White Elf |
| 128 | The Running Skeletons |
| 129 | The Angry Canary |
| 130 | The Swooning Lady |
| 131 | The Mindless Monsters |
| 132 | The Rustling Death |
| 133 | King Joe Cay |
| 134 | The Thing That Pursued |
| 135 | The Spook of Grandpa Eben |
| 136 | Measures for a Coffin |
| 137 | The Three Devils |
| 138 | Strange Fish |
| 139 | Mystery Island |
| 140 | Men of Fear |
| 141 | Rock Sinister |
| 142 | The Pure Evil |
| 143 | No Light to Die By |
| 144 | The Monkey Suit |
| 145 | Let's Kill Ames |
| 146 | Once Over Lightly |
| 147 | I Died Yesterday |
| 148 | The Awful Dynasty |
| 149 | The Magic Forest |
| 150 | Fire and Ice |
| 151 | The Disappearing Lady |
| 152 | The Men Vanished |
| 153 | The Terrible Stork |
| 154 | Five Fathoms Dead |
| 155 | Danger Lies East |
| 156 | The Mental Monster |
| 157 | The Pink Lady |
| 158 | Weird Valley |
| 159 | Trouble on Parade |
| 160 | The Invisible-Box Murders |
| 161 | Birds of Death |
| 162 | The Wee Ones |
| 163 | Terror Takes 7 |
| 164 | The Devil's Black Rock |
| 165 | Waves of Death |
| 166 | The Too-Wise Owl |
| 167 | Terror and the Lonely Widow |
| 168 | Se-Pah-Poo |
| 169 | Colors for Murder |
| 170 | Three Times a Corpse |
| 171 | Death is a Round Black Spot |
| 172 | The Devil Is Jones |
| 173 | Bequest of Evil |
| 174 | Death in Little Houses |
| 175 | Target for Death |
| 176 | The Death Lady |
| 177 | The Exploding Lake |
| 178 | The Derelict of Skull Shoal |
| 179 | Terror Wears No Shoes |
| 180 | The Green Master |
| 181 | Return From Cormoral |
| 182 | Up From Earth's Center |
| 183 | Escape from Loki |
| 184 | Python Isle |
| 185 | White Eyes |
| 186 | The Frightened Fish |
| 187 | The Jade Ogre |
| 188 | Flight into Fear |
| 189 | The Whistling Wraith |
| 190 | The Forgotten Realm |
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| ___ | off what you need. |
| ___ | Print at Verdana 8pts |
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The Hidalgo Trading Company is only one of a great number of sites dedicated to remembering Doc Savage and encouraging a new generation of fans. Choosing any of these sites will open a new browser window for you. 17 May 02 Learn More about the Flea Run The Fabulous Five Catherine Lavallée's LA PAGE EN FRANÇAIS POUR DOC SAVAGE EN FRANÇAIS It's a great site for French fans of Doc Savage. Want more reasons? She's witty, intelligent, beautiful and she is my wife. Chris Kalb's the 86th floor This is what happens when you have talent and a great imagination. Parents...encourage your children to draw on the walls! Rob Smalley's Doc Savage - The Supreme Adventurer From little acorns grow...This is one of the niceest guys in fandom and he has one of the more comprehensive sites. Ron Hill's The Adventure of the Azure Aztec The original artistic inspiration for the HTC, but don't hold that against him. A hilarious strip. Thomas Rau's Das ist Doc Savage I owe this guy. I'm still trying to figure what I can send him. Anyone have a copy of The Man of Bronze dubbed in German? 
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The Cobalt Club Doc Savage Radio Episodes in MP3 Jerry Haendige's Vintage Radio Logs -- Doc Savage Page Doc in the Comics Bill Mann's Doc Savage Comic Book Scans Gary Chaloner's Red Kelso Dave Schneider's The Doc Savage Comics Resource Page The Animated Doc Micah's Doc Savage: The Animated Adventures New Location Ron Hill's The Adventure of the Azure Aztec Kez Wilson's Duc Savage MISSING! Victor and Anthony Aranjo Pat Savage The Babylon Doc Catherine Lavallée's LA PAGE EN FRANÇAIS POUR DOC SAVAGE EN FRANÇAIS Thomas Rau's Das ist Doc Savage Alain Berguerand's L'Homme de Bronze Doc Fan Fiction & More A New Doc Savage Novel! Doc Savage 2000 M. D. Jackson and G. W. Thomas's Savage: The Bronze Journal Mark Eidemiller's Bronze Refinded as Silver Larry Widen's Arch Enemy of Evil Will Murray The latest Kenneth Robeson Len Yacullo's Doc Savage Reader Resource Syracuse University Library Street and Smith's Preservation Project MISSING! Doc at the Cons Cat Jaster's Frozencat Pulpcon Page More Doc on the Web Mark Butler's All About Doc Savage Scott Cranford's The Doc Savage FAQ Page Dale Dodson's Doc Savage Page Jim Gould's Doc Savage Collectible Showcase Bob Jenson's This is Doc Savage Country Mark Lambert's Hidalgo Publishing Company David Pettus and Curtis Peters present: Bronze Recollections Jim & Julie Rhodes Doc Savage on the Computer Garden New ricjac's Savage Land Rocketman's Doc Savage: Man of Bronze Jeff Sines's Doc Savage Unchained ???????'s Monk's Footlocker MISSING! Just a Little Bit of Doc Jerry Sutton's Fortress of Solitude William Thompson's Doc Savage Page Tomi Vaisala's Doc Savage Home Page The Missing Sites Gone... docsavage33's Doc Humor Page And Now for Something Completely Different Gary Chaloner's Chaloner Ink Comics Noir for the Neo Literate new address Joe Baloney's Harry Slothe is on the case. Nick Pollotta's Delphia Book Company has closed for health reason...We're wishing the best for Nick. Dave Kalb's Avenger Archives Avenger Archives - Paperback Annex The Mike and Ike of Avenger pages! Dave Kalb has created an exciting and welcome addition to pulp fan sites. Everything you ever wanted to know about The Avenger is here. 
The Newsgroups If you don't belong to Flea Run: Doc Savage Fan Central you can read: alt.fan.doc-savage on Google.com |
The Talking Devil
Review by Gary Chaloner This one's a real ripper. Doc's brain operation gets exposed and he gets framed as being the mastermind behind an intricate plot that involves his patients and the bleeding of funds from wealthy companies. A fantastic premise, as I always thought Doc's brain ops and the upstate hospital itself where a very weak link in his armour. There's no way he could keep his amazing operation a secret for too long. Some master criminal or crim's relative out for revenge (whatever) would surely stumble across Doc's drastic method of rehabilitation sooner or later. The Talking Devil of the title is a small doll that supposedly "talks" to Sam Joseph, dear friend and office manager to millionaire Montague Ogden. Ogden brings in Doc to diagnose Joseph and eventually operate on Joseph's cerebral fibroma. From there, the story twists and turns in a snappy tale of murder, kidnapping, mindgames and biffo. I didn't think I'd enjoy this book as much as I did. The reason? Doc is portrayed as very human, not a perfect superhero that's called in to clean up the mess after everything has gone off the rails. The villain does outfox Doc (for a while) and it's because of this that Doc's actions hold more weight. He's involved in the story on a personal level. All in all, a very enjoyable Doc adventure. Recommended. Major Gripe: Nothing major, though I'm always dissappointed when only four of the five Doc aides are present in an adventure. This time Johnny is omitted. No Pat either. Favorite Scene: Monk and Doc attack a derelict paddle steamer where hostages are held — Monk has a great stomping set-to with a bad guy on a tree used as a gangplank! Rating: 8/10 |
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Resurrection Day Review by Gary Chaloner Who would you have resurrected from the dead for the good of mankind today? You have only one chance... one choice: Lincoln? Edison? Newton? A much loved and missed relative perhaps? This is the problem facing Doc and his crew -- and when you throw in the interference of a superb master criminal (General Ino) and his mild-mannered-but-maniacal number two (Proudman Shaster), you have a fantastic premise for a Doc adventure. After finding a way to resurrect a human body from the dead, Doc lets his intentions be known to the general public and asks for their choice in who the subject should be. The whole United States joins in the event, with Doc's headquarters being surrounded by thousands of people to witness the proceedings. Things get even more interesting when Ino decides to go head-to-head with Doc in an attempt to gain a fortune. A brave man indeed. Brave -- or insane. But not as insane as his deputy, Proudman Shaster, who, while very aware of the dangers in trying to out-fox the Man of Bronze -- goes along for the ride anyway. These two characters develop into a pair of the most fascinating -- even likable -- villains I have read in a Doc adventure. Shaster leaves a grisly trail of headless bodies and bodiless heads all through the proceedings -- from London and New York to Arabia and Egypt. And to top things off, most of the adventure's desert climax features Doc's aides running around buck naked after having their clothes ripped from them by murderous Arab thugs! All of the brothers are in this adventure, as are Habeas Corpus and Chemistry. Pat is not mentioned. Despite the lack of a pretty face, though, I enjoyed Resurrection Day; a great deal. It has everything you would want in a Doc tale. Major Gripe: I can't help wondering what Doc would have said to the American people after his return to New York. He must have used up a few favors, that's for sure. Favorite Scene: A shoot out between Doc and his men and General Ino's thugs outside the Hidalgo Trading Company while a confused mummy wanders amongst the carnage! Ha! Rating: 9/10 |
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Violent Night
(The Hate Genius) Review by Gary Chaloner Plot 4/10 Pat Savage fans rejoice! Another great idea wasted. I put it down to the tough time contraints put on Dent by his editors... but this story isn't a Len Deighton or Jack Higgins! It does feature a very extended starring role by Pat. So if that rings your bell, then maybe there's something here that will salvage a below average yarn. Regular Characters 5/10 Besides Doc, Monk and Ham feature alongside Pat. Doc is very subdued in this story; more caught up in the importance of his mission than what's happening around him. Villains 3/10 Well... Adolf would have to be the ultimate enemy for Doc to battle. It fizzles to nothing here. What a waste. The bulk of the story involves German agents, Allied agents and double agents swapping resumes at gunpoint in a search for Pat's old six-shooter. It does get tedious after awhile. Even the identity of the fleeing Adolf is a bit ho-hum when it finally comes. Gadgets 1/10 Airplane's feature in this story. As does a wristwatch. Do they count? Monk/Ham Hijinx 2/10 Nothing much as far as classic stuff here. M & H just follow Doc around in this one, giving support and supply info where needed. They're introduction (involving Pat) is fun, though. Overall Score: 15/50 This one, I thought after reading the back cover blurb, could be fantastic! It wasn't. Only read it if you HAVE to. Violent Blight. |
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The Devil Genghis Review by Gary Chaloner Plot 9/10 The sequel to "The Fortress of Solitude", featuring the rematch of Doc Savage and John Sunlight! It strikes me that Dent realised what a great villain he had in John Sunlight only after he had finished the disappointing "The Fortress of Solitude". He more than makes up for it in "The Devil Genghis". The mood of the book hits you over the head from page one, with a fast paced description of events: the linked insanity of an Eskimo and his dog, an aviator call Fogarty-Smith and finally the fiance of the book's femme fatale, Toni Lash. From there, things really get rolling with Lash's attempts to kidnap Doc and his men. By the end of the book, there are plenty of people in straight jackets, plenty of good ol' fashioned "biffo" and plenty of miles covered by Doc and the crew. The climactic battle between Doc's men and "the Genghis", high in the Himalayas, is a real thumper. Regular Characters 8/10 Of the seven regular cast members, only Long Tom and Pat do not make an appearance. Which is a pity, as Long Tom was in "Fortress". It seems a totally arbitrary call to leave him out. Johnny shines in this story as Doc's main aide. He features in a great battle alongside Doc when they are trapped in an English hotel. He ends up carrying the insane Renny out of a second story window and dropping to the road below! Ouch! Villains 10/10 John Sunlight... and with him a smart, sexy dark-haired bombshell with her own "muscle", a lowlife called Cautious and a veritable army of deadly "Asiatics". Dent really wound things up this time... ending with a full-scale mountain war! Gadgets 5/10 This adventure is pretty "low" on gadgets but pretty "full" on fast-paced action. Johnny puts his machine pistol to good use. Doc trips around in drag for a bit, but you have to like older women to appreciate it. Monk/Ham Hijinx 7/10 Monk and Ham compete for the attentions of the beautiful Toni Lash, betting on the lives of Habeas Corpus and Chemistry as to who can win her over! They find that she is more than a match for both of them. The animals just get in the way in this story, in fact they are forgotten completely for the most part, not even mentioned in a general "tidy up" at the adventure's end. Note: Chapter XV: The Rival Genghis. The scenes featuring Monk (in mongol garb), a yak and a huge flint-lock rifle, are priceless. Overall Score: 39/50 rounded up to 45/50 The 39/50 really doesn't reflect the book's strength as a Doc adventure, so I took it upon myself to score the book as a total experience. It really is one of the best Savage adventures that I've read, so I thought a much higher, across-the-board score was called for. The Devil Genghis is a devilishly good read. |
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The Fortress of Solitude
Review by Gary Chaloner Plot 6/10 Potentially, the premise of this book could have been fantastic. But after reading it for the first time just the other day, I was VERY disappointed with how the plot was handled. Rogue villain John Sunlight stumbles onto Doc's secret hideaway in the Arctic then commences to do deals with two warring Balkan powers to sell off some of Doc's dubious inventions. Doc finds out and tries to stop the madman. The opportunities to flesh out Doc's guilt over his inventions being used for evil is never capitalized upon. Regular Characters 8/10 Monk, Ham and Long Tom assist Doc in this adventure. The scenes with Long Tom and Ham escorting one of the female characters in a plane are very entertaining. I've always enjoyed Long Tom's contributions to the sagas. Two points taken away represent Renny and Johnny. Villians 8/10 John Sunlight. Need I say more? The two points lost were for names of two of the female baddies: Titania and Giantia. Give me a break. Gadgets 7/10 Not my favorite part of the Doc mythos, so my score is average. The fact that they figure as the main plot motivation helps the score. Doc uses his usual tricks of make-up and disguises, but it's his dread weapons of destruction in the Fortress that sends a chill down the spine. Monk/Ham Hijinx 6/10 Fairly subdued this time around. They get worked over by two huge women and are separated for the bulk of the adventure. Monk sticks with Doc for most of the action. Overall Score: 35/50 As I stated above, a great premise wasted. After the build up from other Doc fans about The Fortress of Solitude and John Sunlight's debut, it turned out to be a Fortress of Disappointment. |
 Scans and Text by CG Welch additional comments by Mark Koldys Doc Savage The Man of Bronze A Film by George Pal 1975 I'm getting sentimental in my old age. I mention this because I have softened my stance on the 1975 film, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. I know. You remember my rant about this George Pal release. I talked about Pal missing the subtle aspects of the series. Well, after reading the 1946 Doc adventures and a gentle re-reading of chapters of the early adventures I have a confession: subtlety was in short supply in 1933. I recently watched the film to capture new scans for this website. I still can't take Michael Miller as Monk. His voice is squeaky like "chalk on a blackboard" not like "a nail pulled out of a board." Now, that's a subtle difference I'll admit, but an important one. And the kiss…where did they get the idea we wanted Doc to have a libido? The man was screwed up enough. Let's leave sex out of it. (A common newsgroup opinion is that Doc was gay anyway. Personally I believe he was a follower of Tantra) I also can't agree with Mike Resnick that Sousa's music was a "master stroke." I believe the music budget was short-changed. We needed something heroic and subtle. (There's that damn word again and no, they are not mutually exclusive.) Ok, what did I like? God forbid I say this in public, but here goes…Ron Ely. Use some contacts to get the eye color correct and he was Doc Savage (at least in 1975). What else? Pal found the chance to throw in a bunch of the traits of the Fabulous Five. Renny pounded a door, Johnny uttered a preponderance of $5 dollar words, Ham was ever crisp in his suits, and Long Tom used a laser disguised as a cigarette lighter. The less we say about Monk the better. Let's see. The special effects were good for the day. The snakes moved well…except I wonder how often a super hero really uses a fan to drive away the evil spirits? 
In any case, pick up the video and give Doc and the crew another chance. Fast-forward when Doc calls Mona a "brick" and ignore Doc standing on the running boards of the Cord in the rain and skip the part where Don Pedro sleeps in a giant crib and squint when Pal tells us when style of fighting Capt. Seas is using and…OK. Maybe I haven't softened that much... The Cast of Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze 
Ron Ely Doc Savage Chris tells me that in addition to playing Tarzan and Doc Savage that Ron played an "older Superboy" in an episode of the series Superboy. Is this a Super Hero Hat Trick? I think this film almost did in his movie career. A couple of more films the next year and in 1977 a German produced movie about slave-trade in the 19th century called Slavers in which he was second-billed. There was the TV series Sea Hunt in 1987, and a Renegade episode are all I can find for Ely after Doc. Of course, there was that Miss America farce in the 80s. He does have a career writing novels now though. And the man has fans. I received an angry email from one because I hadn't interviewed Ely. Anyone looking for a class project? 
Paul Gleason Major Thomas J. "Long Tom" Roberts He has had probably the most active career of the Doc Savage cast. High points in his career include Die Hard (as Dwayne T. Robinson) and The Breakfast Club (as the principal, Richard Vernon), Trading Places, and as writer/director for Summer Heat. I don't think he looked quite ill enough to be Long Tom. 
Bill Lucking Colonel John "Renny" Renwick Another recognizable face...you're just not quite sure where you've seen him. His credit highlights since Doc Savage include Stripes and 10. Unfortunately he was in the worst film of 1980, The Ninth Configuration. He did get to put his fist through a door though! 
Michael Miller Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair His specialty since Doc has been to play a reporter (Chaplin, The Preppie Murder, and The Hearst and Davies Affair). Mark notes his career started in 1943's "The Iron Major," a Pat O'Brian film about football coach Frank Cavanaugh. My sources say his career started in 1944 as "Boy in Park" in Practically Yours and the last credit I could find was in 1993. I still don't see Patricia Savage falling for this guy... 
Eldon Quick William Harper "Johnny" Littlejohn For me, Eldon Quick fit Johnny. If you watch close you get to see him use that Spock-like nerve pinch in the battle on Captian Seas' ship. I found only a couple of films in the 80's for him, but was pleased to find he was in one of the best movies of the 60's, In the Heat of the Night. I'll have to check that film out again to find him. Mark noticed Quick played "Charlie Hawthrone." 
Darrell Zwerling Brigadier General Theodore Marley "Ham" Brooks Though I would like to have seen the guy who played "Higgens" on Magnum, PI as Ham, I though Darrell Zwerling played him ok. He was in a couple of films I really liked, Chinatown and Grease. (OK, I was kidding about Grease, but Zwerling was in another Travolta movie, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.) His last role that I found was in Joe vs. the Volcano. Mark found him in 1991's "Rush Week," a murder-on-the-campus exploitation thriller." 
Pamela Hensley.... MonaHey, she was in 240-Robert, Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century, and Rooster. Not to mention three films in 1975 alone. 
Paul Wexler.... Captain SeasDoc Savage was his last film. He died in 1979. (July 1999: There is a Paul Wexler listed as an additional voice in 101 Dalmatians! Anyone have a clue if this is the same guy?)June 2003: From Alan Wexler, his son, "Regarding my father, Paul Wexler, he took part in seven roles for 101 Dalmations. 101 Dalmations was done by filming actual actors and then converting into animation. He acted the roles of the hero, Jasper, and the policeman. Regarding Voices, I only remember him as the horse. Others, I don't recollect." 
Michael Berryman.... Coroner
Berryman was in a slightly more famous film in 1975, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. And I'm sure you saw him in Spy Hard as the Bus Patron with the Oxygen Mask. 
Rand Bridges .... Frenchman
Films in 1974 to 1976 and then ???? 
Jorge Cervera Jr. .... Col. Ramirez
Voted the actor whose name is most likely to make you think of Tequila. Played "Jorge" in The Big Fix. 
Bob Corso .... Don Rubio Gorro
No films from 1976 to 1990 and then made his comeback as the Ferris Wheel Operator in Fear Nina Diamante .... Maid #1 Her next film was A Million to Juan (1994) as the Nosey Neighbor. Chuy Franco .... Cheelok Career started in 1970 and then culminated with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 
Janice Heiden .... Adriana
In Sexual Student (1976) (aka The Student Body) (aka Student Body Associates) she played "Chicago". I really hope she wasn't a Method Actress. Robyn Hilton .... Karen Started films in Video Vixens (1972) and was absent after Doc Savage until she played Maid Marian in 1985's Malibu Express. Did you notice these two are in the Salvation Army with Seas at the end of the film? 
Victor Millan .... King Chaac
A career that started in 1952's Thunderbirds through Giant and last seen in Scarface. Hey, all his best films had one word titles! Alberto Morin .... Jose Over 40 roles in films starting with Beau sabreur in 1928 and 60 years later as part of the Senile Brigade in The Milagro Beanfield War. Carlos Rivas .... Kulkan Another actor who disappeared from American films for many years. Nothing after Doc Savage until his role as Sad Girl's Dad in Mi Vida Loca (1993) 
Federico Roberto .... El Presidente
Another Chinatown alumnus. He was also part of the Senile Brigade. 
Dar Robinson .... Native
Dar was better known as a superb stuntman. His role as Native in Doc Savage was the beginning of a movie acting career that spanned 12 years. He specialized in roles with one name: Jimmy, Larry, Holt, Mike, and Rolf in films too obscure to mention. He stretched as A.T.A.C. Man in Nighthawks Jette Seear .... Girl #1 Also appeared in the 1979 romantic comedy, "A Perfect Couple." Grace Stafford ... Little Lady If you're wondering who she was...remember the Scout helping the lady across the street? I didn't either. Could this be the same actress who starred in 1935's Dr. Socrates? Mark notes that Ms Stafford was the voice of Woddy Woodpecker and the wife of Walter Lantz, who annimated Woody. There was a good friendship between Pal and Lantz given their shared ethnic heritage, and just about all of Pal's later films include some kind of tribute or in-joke reflecting on Walter Lanz or Woody. Robert Tessier .... Dutchman A 24 year career. Died in 1990 after completing his last two films: Fists of Steel and Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell. Scott Walker .... Borden The last actor listed but not the least. Started his career in High Plains Drifter, but his career almost was ended when he was type cast after playing The Frog Killer in 1979's The Muppet Movie. Made his comeback playing a less prestigious role as an attorney in The Ref (1994). These lucky few count Doc Savage as their only film. Diana Alton .... Cook Meme Chen .... Girl #3 Diana Corte .... Girl #2 Toni Telo .... Maid #2 Produced by George Pal Doc Savage was Pal's last produced film. It had been the his first since 1968. The last film he directed was The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (name the star for fame and fortune!). DS was also the only film he co-wrote. Any clues to the poor showing of Doc Savage here? Directed by Michael Anderson His career as a director started in 1949 and incudes Around the World in 80 Days (1956), 1984 (1956), All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), Logan's Run (1976), and last directed Captains Courageous for TV in 1996. Written by: Joe Morhaim (My source said he co-wrote only one other film, 1981's Ma Femme S'appelle Reviens) While Mark's source said he also co-wrote "Eqypt by Three," a 1953 drama showcasing three different tales about life arount the Nile River. He also co-wrote "The Happy Road," a 1957 Grace/Kelly comedy/drama with a Maurice Chevalier theme song. and George Pal (Enough said.) Based upon the novel by Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent) (Wait, we know that name!) Cinematography by Fred J. Koenekamp Over 70 films, with 66 as Cinematographer. Started as a camera assistant for 1957's Raintree County and was cinematographer for Patton (1970), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) (busy year), Billy Jack (1971), Rage (1972), and four films in 1975. Maybe he was tired when he got to Doc Savage? His last listed credit was for Flight of the Intruder (1990) The Doc Savage March: Music by John Philip Sousa Adapted by Frank De Vol (Don't judge DeVol just by Doc Savage. He also composed music for Hush..Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964), Cat Ballou (1965) and Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang (1982). (His last listed film.) Lyrics by Don Black You can also blame him for composing the music for The Bitch (1979), a starring vehicle for Joan Collins. Costume Design by Patrick Cummings Doc Savage was his first film as Costume Designer. Took what he learned tearing Doc's shirts to make costume's for 1981's Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story. Film Editing by Thomas J. McCarthy A.C.E. Evidently Doc Savage was the last film he edited. He did make a bit of a come back as the Head Gardener in Mannequin (1987) Other crew Jane Feinberg (casting) Mike Fenton (casting) Over 110 movies cast for the two of them. Fenton first casting job was the film American Graffiti (1973). Feinberg started her career with Young Frankenstein (1974). Highlights for both include casting Chinatown (1974), Godfather, Part II (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Blade Runner (1982), Aliens (1986). Fenton also cast Beaches (1988), Blown Away (1994), and Dante's Peak (1997). Gae Griffith (assistant to the producer) Fred Harpman (art director) Don Harris (music editor) Howard A. Anderson Co. (special photographic effects) Sass Bedig (special effects) Robert MacDonald (special effects) Lately working in casting. Marvin March (set decorator) Harlan Riggs (sound) Only credited film was Doc Savage. Monte Westmore (make-up) A "Monty" Westmore is also credited to Doc Savage and was last credited for makeup on The Shawshank Redemption (1994) E. Darrell Hallenbeck (unit production manager) Jack W. Aldworth (1st assistant director) Bruce Satterlee (2nd assistant director) Was Con Morrison in Stella Dallas (1937) Albert Sheppard (2nd assistant director) William Neel (assistant film editor) Toni Eppers (stunt co-ordinator) Don Vargas (wardrobe) Filmed with Panavision Equipment Color by Technicolor Filmed at The Burbank Studios, Burbank California A quick note about the production company, Warner Brothers. They had seven films that appeared in 1975. In addition to Doc Savage they produced The Ultimate Warrior, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, Night Moves (with Gene Hackman), Let's Do it Again (with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby), Lisztomania (with Roger Daltry), and The Drowning Pool (with Paul Newman). Is it any wonder they put all their hopes on Doc Savage? 
Pal planned his own sequel if The Man of Bronze was a success. Of course, it wasn't and Doc Savage: The Bleeding Sun was never made. We have the novelization of the film here at the Hidalgo Trading Company --The Bleeding Sun.
Chris Wike had a movie page up for awhile and decided to remove it. Thanks for donating the original screen shots, Chris! If you're looking for those I'm sure you can find them on some of the other Doc Savage sites. We went to the new screen shots in July 1999. |
Duane is a Louisville based Doc Savage fan. His artwork has graced The Secret Sanctum, The Bronze Gazette, and my cubicle wall. I've convinced him to allow me to display a few pieces of his Doc art on the HTC.
From The Land of Terror (April 1933): Doc discovers the murder of his old
chemistry mentor, Jerome Coffern, by the mysterious Smoke of Eternity. This
leads to a violent adventure in which Doc tracks down the evil crime leader
Kar to Thunder Island, a partially sunken volcano-island inhabited by
dinosaurs.
Universal Studios string of monster films featuring Dracula,
Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman and the Mummy is well known today.. In
the late 1930s, Walter Winchell reported rumors that the studio planned a
film featuring those two contrasting beings molded by science: Doc Savage
and Frankenstein's Monster. However, Doc refused to approve any use of his
name, image or reputation, and the project died.
This image depicts a scene from an unreleased adventure, whose file remains
locked in a vault in Doc's old skyscraper headquarters. Although details
are sketchy, the adventure involved a secret army (possibly with Axis
connections) planning to form its own country in the Pacific Northwest. Doc
became involved when Pat Savage disappeared while visiting haunts around
her old homestead.
Doc Savage fan, Steve Sherman, has taken Doc into 3D with a couple of Doc Savage models he's constructed.
Below is a 12" model Doc. You can make your own! Just read....
The Body
The body is from a "Soldiers of the World" figure currently available at
K-mart and/or Target. The boots are cavalry boots from a "Soldiers of the
World" Civil War uniform, also available at K-Mart/Target.
Any of the figures will work, but if you can find a Civil War figure wearing cavalry boots you can acquire the boots for "free".
The Head
The head is a G.I. Joe Hall of Fame "Grunt" head. I cut the neck piece off the SOTW figure's head and glued it to the new head. The hair is molded from DAS Pronto modelling compound.
The Tan
I painted the figure with a base coat of dark tan, then several
thin layers of raw sienna to get the tanned look. The hair is painted in
metallic yellow. Use artist's acryllics as they are flexible and will
dry completely on the vinyl parts.
The Accessories
The shirt is a vintage G.I. Joe sailor shirt bleached white. The pants are
from a vintage G.I. Joe Russion soldier and were dyed brown. The belt is
from a 12" Starting Lineup baseball player. I painted the boots brown, but
this is optional. The finishing touch was the ray gun from a 1970's Knight
of Darkness figure.
Below is a Doc Savage action figure Steve created by using the parts from three action figures. More info as soon as I can find it.
When Bantam began publishing the omni editions many great chances for new Doc covers were lost. Artist Ron Hill fixes that problem with his new series of Doc Savage covers. Ron also gave a cover to The Stone Man, which Bantam shortchanged by reprinting a previous Doc cover. (Note: text descriptions are from the blurb on the back of the novels.)
The All-White Elf
A weapon of incredible hypnotic power has fallen into evil hands. Doc Savage must uncover the secret of the paralyzing peril -- or face a fiery death at sea.
The Stone Man
The Man of Bronze and his fearless friends trail the treacherous Spad Ames to the Arizona Badlands. There they encounter the mysterious men who live through the mists -- men who can turn flesh into stone!
The Angry Canary
High in the mountains of India, Doc and his crew battle a madman genius whose frightening invention can doom the entire human race.
Ron Hill: Savage Artist
Not to mention the rest of Doc's crew
(Editor's note: Ron is a self-employed illustrator and cartoonist who has given us another take on Doc and his crew.)
The is a finished pen and ink I like to call "Another Day at the 86th Floor Office." I hope it is self-explanatory. I would like to portray Doc and the Five more realistically, but still maintain the image that Bama and Bantam have saddled us with (it is a strong visual gimmick). Hence I feel the need to show Doc in his quiet toned business garb, before he dons the jungle gear and gets his shirt shredded.
Or in his vest, or appropriately garbed for the current climate, etc.
Monk was always my favorite. Here is the house crashing down around him in The Monsters.
This is a felt-pen study from my sketchbook It prortrays a saga's end, Doc tried to warn the supervillian, he died horribly at his own device, and now Doc will bury the evil technology at the Fortress of Solitude - typical ending.
The adventures always benefitted by the addition of Pat Savage.
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In 1998 CG Welch asked a few Doc Savage website designers 20 questions...this is what they had to say...
Rob Smalley Website designer for Doc Savage - The Supreme Adventurer I'm a 39 year old guy who grew up in southern California (San Fernando Valley). I went to college at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo where I got a degree in engineering, concentrating in air conditioning & refrigeration. I took a job in Arizona in 1981 after graduation. I've been here ever since. I live in Chandler, which is a suburb of Phoenix. I work for University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors. I spent 12 years as a construction site mechanical engineer and project manager. The largest project I managed was the Phoenix Suns basketball arena, which was completed several years ago. I am now the chief mechanical estimator for the same company in Arizona. I am responsible for preparing design-build budget proposals and plan & specification cost estimates for bids on new construction of air conditioning, plumbing and process piping systems for large commercial & industrial facilities. I'm married. My wife’s name is Debbie. We have one teenage girl. I first met Doc Savage and his five remarkable aids in early 1971. I was 12 years old and in the 7th grade. Until that point, I was reading the Berkley paperback series of Sherlock Holmes adventures. Although I did not know it, I was priming myself for reading series-type adventures. Doc came into my life through a fellow named Gary Stevenson. This kid was absolutely high on Doc Savage. His enthusiasm was contagious and I just had to have some. After seeing his collection, I began to prowl the bookstores. The first newly released book I can remember seeing in the stores was The Munitions Master (March 1971). I immediately bought it as well as The Golden Peril, The Giggling Ghosts, and Poison Island. It was difficult, but I finally decided that The Golden Peril would be my first. With it I walked straight into an exciting world of adventure and brotherhood. I was to travel the globe with Doc and his men, and with them become life-long friends. I read every new Doc Savage book as they came out, until the end of 1976. Then college reading took over. I continued collecting the books, although I read only a few in the years to 1984. By that time my career was taking off and my enthusiasm for Doc had waned. No doubt aided by the slow publication rate. Sometime in 1984 I stopped actively searching the bookstores for new books. My collection was boxed-up and remained that way. But this was not the end. In January 1996 I discovered the Internet Fans Of Bronze (IFOB) and like a man who had been resuscitated, my enthusiasm for Doc was given new life. Thanks to the IFOB and the alt.fan.doc-savage newsgroup, I have become a part of a world-wide fellowship of those who, like myself, "belong" to Doc. My Doc Savage book collection is now complete, and I am working toward completing the pulp set. In early 1996 I began reading the adventures again, sampling some of my old favorites. In late 1996 I began re-reading the series in original pulp order. I am now on The Fantastic Island, the 34th story. I’ve been averaging an adventure about every two weeks, and enjoying it immensely. I have little desire to read anything else. The only other authors I’ve found that hold my attention for continued reading are Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald, and I have read most of their works. Incidentally, I think Ross MacDonald would have written some great Doc Savage stories. I have a complete set of The Avenger series paperbacks, but have not read one in 20 years. I guess in my mind, since there is so little free time it is hard to settle for 2nd best. I cannot speak for others but, in all honesty, I believe that the reasons why the character of Doc Savage is so attractive to me are as follows; 1.) Doc is everything I wish I was. That pretty much sums it up. Doc has herculean strength, a genius mind, ruggedly handsome looks, wealth, courage, a charitable heart, an honorable soul, and an adventurer’s spirit. Doc shows us what is the best in all of us, and what we need to make better in ourselves. Being as close to Doc Savage as I have been, one cannot help become aware of the whole pulp genre and period. Over the years I have accumulated several books about the pulps. These books have inspired my interest and curiosity regarding those treasures of American popular culture. It wasn’t until last year that I had personal contact with a "pulp". I had known about them for decades, but I had never seen one, much less actually owned one myself. Now I own quite a few. They are among my most cherished possessions. Currently, I am only interested in completing the Doc Savage pulps series. Later, who knows. Through the medium of the Internet, I have found the alt.pulp newsgroup and subsequently learned of the annual convention, PulpCon. My wife, Debbie and I are planning to make what I hope will be the first of many trips. I am looking forward to meeting, face to face, so many of my new friends of the "Brotherhood Of Bronze". As I mentioned, in 1996 I went on-line. My ISP at the time was AOL. As some of you may know, they offer a feature whereby one can generate their own personal homepage. I started tinkering with this and was able to create a very rudimentary website. I was needing a purpose for my new homepage, a focus for my efforts to teach myself HTML programming. . This is where the Doc Savage - The Supreme Adventurer website began. Needing to leave AOL for greener pastures I was required to buy a browser software package. Netscape Communicator looked desirable so I bought a copy and have been very happy with its Netscape Page Composer program. My Doc website has evolved slowly with occasional rapid eruptions of growth. Unfortunately, I am not able to devote the time to it that it deserves. It could be so much better. Thanks to Jeff Sines we now have a Doc Savage webring. After Jeff, I hold the small honor of being the first to jump on. Jeff initiated this project and worked solidly for an entire weekend to get the ring to operate. That Sunday evening, it came to life. Jeff is to be commended for this most valuable contribution to Doc fans. Doc Savage websites vary greatly in their essence and character. As far as I’m concerned, any Doc Savage website is cool. Some take a magazine format, others an information directory format and others merely express fan appreciation. I wanted my site to offer to the visitor the experience of having fallen into Doc’s world. To me Doc Savage is as much a place as it is a character. Therefore, I have tried to offer content that will cause the visitor to be awed by Doc’s world. It is my hope that having experienced something that exciting, they will want a greater and more personal experience with Doc and his remarkable men. Achieving this with pictures and text is quite a challenge though. Since I don’t seem to be able to ignore this subject I will only say this: Many fans speculate and dream of the best acting cast for wishful Doc Savage movies and TV shows. For some reason that I am unable to identify, this line of thought does not interest me the way it does so many others. I strongly believe that the Internet is the best place to present the true flavor of Doc’s world. In my opinion, there is no substitute for Lester Dent’s written words and style for conveying the essence of Doc Savage. For this reason, I have used the material from the stories throughout my website. The future of my site is such- as I read through the Docs in order I am dictating details of the characters, events and places into a small tape recorder. I plan to transcribe these tidbits to my website in a manner that will hopefully be interesting and exciting. It is my hope that by adding more detailed content to the individual pages, the world of Doc Savage will be better realized. As you can imagine, this will be a long evolution. As far as what is next for me-
Cat Jaster Website designer for Frozencat 1) Tell us about your life off the web...what sort of work do you do? what part of the world is home? Family? etc? President-Pulp Adventures, Inc. Small press publisher. New Jersey. 1 brother 1 sister 2) How did you discover Doc Savage? stole The Devil's Playground from my brother's room 3) What drew you to continue reading the novels? Different characters at different times. Sometimes Monk and Ham-sometimes Johnny 4) What other kinds of fiction were you reading at the time? Mysteries, SF, Fantasy, Textbooks, Encyclopedias, History 5) Do you still read the novels? How often? Have you read them all? yes. one a month or more. nope. 6) What else do you read now? too many SPIDER novels, ha ha! Mags: Analog-F&SF-SFA-SFWAB-Asimov's-Reader's Digest-Bronze Gazette-CBG Books: Silverberg-McCaffrey-KSRobinson-Asimov- 7) Did reading Doc Savage novels lead you to other pulp characters (or vice- versa)? Yes and no-Doc led me to the Doc Newsgroup which led me to the pulp NG which by eavesdropping I learned of other characters 8) What do you think attracts people to Doc Savage? The variety and goodness 9) What novelist would have written a great Doc Savage novel? Norvell Page 10) What does a 30s/40s pulp semi-super hero have to say to a generation raised with government distrust, global unrest and general malaise? (or is this a diatribe masqurading as a question?) The same thing any cartoon hero has to say-think of the right! 11) What madness brought you to the role as a Doc Savage website designer?
12) Who is your audience?
13) What do you hope to accomplish with your website? What do want people to take away after visiting your website? Make it easy for people to find the Doc/Pulp places & people on the net
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Welcome the return of the Hidalgo Trading Company Board of Directors. Doc Savage fans have a few common stories..the chance encounter, the cover of that first book... In any case, you'd be amazed just how much The Phantom City is responsible for bring fans into the world of Doc Savage. Some of these stories are from the early days of the HTC...and we'll be adding new ones in the coming weeks. You can join the Hidalgo Trading Company Board of Directors by writing us at info@docsavage.info. Just tell us how you discovered Doc. Or just leave a comment at the bottom of this page! | |
| Jeff Deischer 11 Sep 02 |
In 1970, I was nine years old. I was just beginning to collect comic books, which would become a serious, lifelong thing for me beginning the very next year. I had a Captain America coloring book that made a big impression on me; he remains my favorite superhero. One day, while waiting with my mother for her order at a little, local shoe repair/used book store near my home in Casper, WY, I spotted The Red Skull. I didn't know who Doc Savage was, but I knew the Red Skull as Captain America's nemesis. I had no idea who the figure on the cover of the book was, but was awestruck by the ultra-realistic Bama painting (I actually believed it was a photograph; give me a break-I was only nine years old). I was not disappointed by the read, either. The multitude of gadgets; the good-natured and witty ribbing between Monk and Ham; Doc's amazing foresight; the curiously melodious yet harsh names (Buttons Zortell, Lea Aster, Nate Raff, et al.). And that was the beginning of a serious, lifelong thing for me. |
| Gerald Cooper 14 Nov 99 |
My first Doc was The Golden Peril,in 1970. Like most of us I was instantly hooked. I read every doc I could find. Then I discovered Farmer. Doc became very real for me, he has been a major influence in my life, and now in my 6 kids lives. They got the jump on me, Doc has been in their lives since they were born. For a while I even put Christmas presents under the tree for them addressed from Doc Savage, an old 'friend'. They are surrounded by Doc every day. On car trips I make them listen to the code recitied by Ely, they groan, but I think they hear some of what Doc and I are saying. For 25+ years I thought I was alone,finding Doc on the internet was a great moment for me. There is so much to say about Doc and the code in my life but I will close with a thank you to Mr. Dent, Mr. Farmer, HTC, and all the fans. Long Live Doc Savage! Courtney lists Red Snow as his favorite story and the Roar Devil as his least favorite. |
| Courtney Rogers 14 Nov 99 |
Saw Doc Savage books in a local Korvettes store in Elmhurst, Illinois. Asked for some for Christmas, and got 4 from my sister for Christmas 1974. Never looked back and have been a continous Savageologist for 25 years now! Have a complete set of paperbacks, and am proud to be one of the Arizona Fans of Bronze. Don't forget to check out the Doc Savage convention in Arizona in November 2000! Courtney lists Golden Peril as his favorite Bantam cover and The Spotten Men as the worst cover. |
| Willis Couvillier 14 Nov 99 |
Was started are 10-11 by my mom, who gave me 3 novels, The Sargasso Ogre, The Secret in the Sky, and The Spook Legion. To this day, one of my favorite tales is The Sargasso Ogre. Nearly have the pb set, wish Bantam would publish more of Will Murray's Doc, and hope for a Doc movie that could live up to his greatness. (Editor's Note: Willis, I fixed the length of the fields on the Board page. Thanks for the input!) |
| Bill Colby-Newton | is another 28 year Doc veteran and almost has a complete collection. He "found a copy lying on an end table at a neighbor's house. Stared reading and the rest is history!" He has "too many favorites to pick just one." He believes any of Bama's covers are his favorite. The "modern covers by whomever" gets the quick vote for worst covers. |
| Richard Dowdell | is celebrating his silver anniversary with Doc. The Polar Treasure is his favorite story and The King Maker his favorite cover. The Red Terrors is his choice for worst cover and The Yellow Cloud gets his vote for worst story. Richard adds, "I am about 40 short of the Bantam Editions. I have several comics and one Whitman Hardcover. I had several more and got rid of them when I was a teenager. I am paying for it now." |
| Roger C. Blush | started late as Doc fans go...18. Now in his 24th year as a Doc fan he finds Death in Silver his favorite cover. The worst cover? "Any cover done by that jerk after Bama left" (Editor's note: You have lots of company there Roger.) |
| Arthur Sippo MD, MPH | started reading Doc novels 32 years ago at 12. The Man of Bronze is his favorite story and cover. The Roar Devil gets the worst story nod, and The South Pole Terror as worst cover. Dr. Sippo adds, "Doc Savage was an inspiration to me in both my personal and professional life. Like many others whom I have met on line, I owe a debt of gratitude to Lester Dent for the character he created." |
| Mark Trail | is another 2nd generation Doc fan. He found his first novel, The Squeaking Goblin, on his Dad's library shelf. That novel is still his favorite story. He also believes the Red Terrors was the worst novel. For covers he has both pulp and Bantam choices: Favorite: Pulp - The Green Death and Bantam - The Sargasso Ogre. The worst covers are: Pulp - The Man Who Fell Up and Bantam - The Land of Terror. |
| Kevin Koehler | My first "Doc Savage" was "The Polar Treasure" I bought It because I loved the cover. Just as I had started reading Tarzan basically because the of the attractive cover art. About the Bantam repeats I liked all of their reprint covers- Just that some were reprints or only small images- the half covers on the doubles. I since have collected all the reprints and have all but finished reading one of the doubles. I will have to reread them to have an opinion as to what is my favorite and as to what is worst in my opinion. Though I have enjoyed them all. updated: July 23, 2003 |
| Firdaus Juven | found us on an Internet search engine. At 29, he just hasn't picked a favorite novel. |
| Raymond Tom | is not called "Long" as far as we know, but he has been reading Doc novels for 28 years. He has only favorites: The Mystic Mullah is his favorite cover, but Fortress of Solitude gets favorite story. |
| Scott Slone | has been reading Doc Savage novels for 20 years. |
| Rob Smalley | A friend introduced Rob to Doc when he was 12. Now 26 years later he is just 6 short of a complete set. He says its "impossible to pick just one" favorite story, but if you press him, he'll offer "Dust of Death." His favorite cover is "again tough to choose" but he'll say Quest of Qui anyway. He has no problems with naming a worst story, The Lost Giant. And there is "no doubt about" The Land of Fear as the worst cover. Rob remembers his first novel, "I was introduced to Doc Savage in Early 1971 by a friend from school. I was in the 7th grade. This kid was absolutely high on Doc Savage. His enthusiasm was contagious and I just had to have some. After seeing his collection, I began to prowl the bookstores. The first newly released book I can remember seeing in the stores was The Munitions Master (March 1971). The stores were full of Docs, as many as 8 or 10 different titles on the shelves at the same time. I immediately bought The Munitions Master, The Golden Peril, The Giggling Ghosts and Poison Island. The whole thing just made my pulse race. I loved Bama's covers and I loved the stories. I was hooked, and I have been for life. It's 26 years later and just a few weeks ago I hit the "jackpot" when I found 26 Docs in a used bookstore. You know I still got the same rush of excitement at finding those Docs that I did when I was 12." |
| Dr. Jerry M. Allen | The good doctor started read his first Doc 26 years ago at 10. He's consistent his favorite story and cover is The Man of Bronze. The worst story and cover? Brand of the Werewolf. |
| Anthony Aranjo | One of the brothers who have set out to ink Arch Enemy of Evil, Anthony has been reading the novels since he was 12. After 27 years, his favorite story is The Annihilist. You can add another vote for Land of Long JuJu as worst story. His favorite cover was the pulp version of The Secret in the Sky and his worst cover vote goes to The Spook Legion. |
| Gordon Dymowski | He started Docs 21 years ago at 7. He found the giant sized Marvel comic on his own and that led to the novels. His favorite story is the Fortress of Solitude and he hasn't found his worst story yet. His favorite cover is White Eyes and Red Snow is the worst cover he's found. Now we'll present Gordon's comments verbatim -- "This is one of the coolest Doc pages I have ever discovered -- I'll probably write more about my first time reading Doc. However, this (and other Doc pages) really justify the Internet's existence. Good job, and keep it up! Gordon" (Editor's Note: Thanks Gordon! Flattery gets you everywhere. It's a good time to remind everyone that the HTC IS its readers. Those who drop by and add their comments. The fans who send us their articles and their art. Those are the people who deserve credit for the good work here.) |
| Thomas W. Gehris | At 34, Thomas has read the novels for 21 years. His parents bought him his first novel. Ask him to name his favorite story and he'll tell you, "impossible to tell i've throughly enjoyed all of the stories." Move down to the worst story question and you'll get "see above" comment. He can name a favorite cover, The Spook Legion, and a worst cover, The Evil Gnome. |
| James Michael Stuckey | It seems many Doc fans are in their 21st year of reading the novels. James found his first novel in the store at age 11 and 21 years later his favorite story is still that first novel, The Polar Treasure. He'll tell Flight into Fear is his least favorite novel. The Sea Angel gets best cover and he calls his worst cover nominee, The Evil Gnome, a "cheap reprint." He does have a suggestion for Doc fans everywhere, "If they ever print any new Docs, I think that everyone who can afford it should buy at least 2, possibly 3, copies of each book. I used to get one to read, one to keep, and one to give to someone else to try. The more they sell, the better chance the legend will go on." |
| Andrew Aird | Started at 6 and now in his 23rd year as a fan Andrew can't remember the worst story and counts most of the earliest as his favorites. |
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| Scott Saunders | He'll tell you the pulp version of Secret in the Sky is his favorite cover and the paperback cover of Brand of the Werework is his least favorite. Ask him to name his favorite story and he'll tell you, "I haven't read enough to pick." Ask for worst story and get "ditto." Gordon found Doc out due to illness, "I was sick one Sunday so I got to stay home that Sunday instead of going to church. The joke is that I used to be Baptist until I over slept one Sunday. Any way, George Pal's Doc Savage was on, and I loved it. I was eight -- I didn't know any better. I have my own web page with links to Doc Savage and other pulp links. Since I don't have that much, except for a few omnibus and and the 1970's Bantam reprints I'm always on the lookout for people who want to buy, sell or trade. |
| Thomas A Dyer | His parents gave him his first Doc at 11. Now, 29 years later, Thomas says his favorite story is Death in Silver. The best cover was Fortress of Solitude and the worst story was Jade Ogre. |
| David K. Smith | We can thank David's fifth grade english teacher, Mrs. Pane, for introducing him to the Doc novels. He can't decide which is his favorite story, Fear Cay or The Derrick Devil. He knows Bantam's The Feathered Octopus is his favorite cover. After 23 years he still remembers his introduction to Doc novels and fandom, "After burning through the seven or eight books that my english teacher had given me to read back in 73, I decided to do a Doc Savage project for special credit. I designed a movie poster for an adaption of The Freckled Shark. As a further fueling of my obsession, Mrs. Pane suggested that I write to Kenneth Robeson. After waiting approximately eight weeks, I received from Conde Nast a nice form letter informing me that Mr. Robeson was in fact Mr. Dent , and that he in fact he was Deceased. This kind of shook me up but a week later I received a nice postcard from Mr. Dent's widow thanking me for my interest in her husbands work and hoping I continue reading the books. Well I still have both letters, and a healthy obsession to this day." |
| Bruce Appelbaum | has been reading Doc Savage novels since he was 10. That's 33 years of fan appreciation! |
| David Taggart | His favorite story is Dust of Death and he'll give another vote for The Thousand-Headed Man as the worst story. Dave thinks the worst cover was Brand of the Werewolf. Who ever forgets their first? Well, Dave didn't. He picked Terror in the Navy as his favor cover and his first novel was...we'll let him tell you, "Terror in the Navy was the first paperback I read -- after that I was spending my allowance to buy two every two weeks. Brand of the Werewolf was the one that really hooked me -- probably it was the Pat-angle that did it (blush!). What hurts is how many DOC paperbacks I've thrown away over the years. Somehow they never survived the moves. I'd love to pick up an original pulp, but the prices are just so high. Never was much on the comic books. Love the name of the Web page -- for years i have filled out various nosy forms listing myself as a se lf-employed salvage consultant with the Hidalgo Trading Company, and I often get junk mail addressed as such. (Editor's Note: That's where our mail is going!) |
| CG Welch |  "I found my first Doc Savage novel in my closet. I have no idea how The Phantom City made it into there. Of course, you could have lost Jimmy Hoffa in my closet when I was a kid. In any case, I devoured that book in a day. (Days were longer then.) It was May of 1975. I had just turned 15. I was the perfect age to come under the spell of a hero. It took many years of haunting book stores, yard sales, and one, I swear to God, date to complete my collection. Then they just sat there wrapped in plastic. Until I discovered the web...and Doc Savage fans everywhere! Now, I've pulled my novels out again. And I just bought a few copies for reading purposes. I wonder what time the used bookstore opens Saturday?" |
| gig and cribby drain | Every now and then we get a letter at the HTC that just cracks us up. This week it was the Drains: "We're really big fans, and we have some of the bantam novels, and some of the comics from marvel and dark horse. We live for Doc! We even have haircuts like Doc, but mine is more like Monk's in the movie. We try to get real Savage tans in the summer, and sometimes we do isometric exercises to be more like Doc. The only problem is we are forced to live in the basement of the science building with the lab rats and other test subjects. One day we will excape using the knowledge we have gleaned from the novels, and we will rescue our brother test subjects. and we will live in the Fortress of Solitude during the summer, and on the 86th floor during the winter. Keep up the good work of Doc..." The Drain's add that their favorite story is The Thousand-Headed Man and the World's Fair Goblin has to be the worst. The Polar Treasure gets worst cover with The Red Terrors their choice for best cover. |
| Darryl Alan Elliott | Another 21st year Savage fan Darryl, 36, was introduced to Doc Savage by a friend. (Now, that's a good friend.) He lists The Phantom City as his favorite novel, The Yellow Cloud as his least favorite. The Annihilist gets favorite Bantam cover nod and Spook Hole gets least favorite cover. Darryl remembers his first novel, "When I was that magic age of 15, a friend carried me to a local flea market, where I found in rapid sucession BANTAM # 10 (The Phantom City), the Marvel Comic of The Monsters (pt.1), and the Marvel B&W of "Ghost Pirates from the Beyond". From then on, I was hooked!! To this day, even though I've managed to read them all, PHANTOM CITY is still my favorite Doc. |
| Barry Ottey | had an encounter with the novel 30 years ago. I'll let Barry tell you about his 1st Doc...
It was the summer of my thirteenth year, and my family had moved to a small, northwestern Ohio town during the last 5 weeks of school. I was too busy trying to catch up on several of the subjects, to have a lot of time to make friends, and none of the neighboring houses held kids my age. I was looking forward to a really boring summer, when the lady who lived next door, hearing that I enjoyed reading, brought over a box of paperbacks that her son (grown and in the Navy) had discarded. The box was filled with Martian novels by Burroughs, Bond novels by Fleming, and many others, but at the very bottom of the box was a battered copy of Kenneth Robeson's "The Phantom City". I read it. I was enthralled. I was hooked! I'd finally found a hero that I could believe in. He was powerful, influential, altruistic, incorruptible, and a scientific genius who knew the value of education. (That spoke to the bookworm in me, the four-eyed geek whose test-scores always fouled up the class bell-curve!) I found a reason to help Mom haunt the flea markets - they were a source of "lost" Doc episodes. Not being granted an allowance for the household chores I performed, I discovered that (in the mid-60's) thirty four Coke or Pepsi bottles, collected as I rode my bicycle along the roads near the edges of the town, could be easily rinsed and converted into the price of the newest Doc Savage novel, once a month! (Believe it or not, we didn't always 'recycle' glass soda bottles. We sold 'em back to the bottling company at 2 cents, later 10 cents, apiece!) I've grown up and, like many others, added the adventures of James Bond, Jack Ryan, and Dirk Pitt, to my collection. But I regularly visit the section of my personal 'library' that contains my Doc Savage collection, reading the novels over again at least once every eighteen months. They take me back to a simpler time, when good and evil were yards apart, not two sides of the same coin. When the world was still full of unexplored places to have fantastic adventures in. When authors knew that there usually wasn't time for a roll in the hay in the middle of a perilous adventure. When a man could take a stand against evil and, aided by a few undyingly loyal friends, come out victorious. Heroes have come and gone since Kenneth Robeson penned the last of his Doc Savage novels. But, among them all, the Man of Bronze still stands head-and-shoulders above the rest. |
| Jonathan Brock | was 10 when he read his first Doc Savage novel, "My dad had them on his bookshelf, and I got bored one day and decided to read one." |
| Erika Frensley | was 16 when she read her first Doc Savage novel. Her favorite is Cargo Unknown. |
| Ron Hill | was 13. "When I was in the seventh grade, I was on an overnight field trip to Dearborn, Michigan. We were allowed a 30 minute stop in a mall for lunch. I had been reading James Blish adaptations of Star Trek, so I headed for the nearest book store. And it was there I first saw the Man of Bronze on a bookshelf in B. Dalton's. I think it was the Derrick Devil cover, and there were a few of those others in that range that had those real stylized, metallic textured covers. I was entranced by the colors and the exciting logo; the way they all caught the eye with those monochromatic color themes. But I wasn't entranced enough - I bought the latest Blish adaptation, Star Trek #9. This was in mid-May, and a few weeks later I ordered a new Star Trek via the mail with one of those forms in the back of the book. Along with that book was a catalog. While leafing through the catalog I was suddenly mesmerized by the Doc Savage logo, with that black and white Bama art of Doc and the Five from the back of the books. Suddenly tingling (I almost said trilling) I gave my mom $3.00 that she converted to a check and mailed that with an order for the first four books. A few weeks later they came, and needless to say I was hooked. Four days later (the time it took me to travel to Hidalgo, Indochina, Tibet, and the North Pole with Doc) Mom had to help me order another 4, and I re-read Man of Bronze and Polar Treasure again while waiting the weeks till the next ones came. That summer I found another 20-or-so in a used bookstore at Bowling Green University while visiting Grandma, and for a couple years afterwards she carried a list of the "Docs Needed" in her purse and visited the store regularly for me. It took all the way until October 1982 to find the last one to complete the collection to date, and that was Cold Death. I have to say that no series (and I collect a lot) has ever captured the "sense of wonder" and excitement that Doc Savage has, nor the thrill of the hunt." (Editor's Note: And I thought I was the only one who equipped my family with "Docs Needed" forms!) |
| "Professor Ling" | started a scant 10 years ago at 18, "THE FLAMING FALCONS! I had seen the DS paperbacks at bookstores for most of my youth, but never bought one. Then, I was at the University of Florida one afternoon in the student union when there was a Lost and Found Auction. I picked out a bundle of books, including one Doc Savage. I can still remeber sitting down to read it. It was weird. It was wonderful. Never looked back." |
| Bill Mann | has been reading Doc Savage novels for over 30 years. His favorite novel is Ost.
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| Bob Jenson | Bob has been reading Doc's for 25 years since discovering them at age 11. His favorite story is Fortress of Solitude (not suprising considering his wonderful background painting). He'll tell you The Flaming Falcons is the worst story he's read. Quest of Qui is his favorite cover, but don't ask him about any of the latter pulp covers. Now, his story in his own words,
"I first saw Doc advertised in the Marvel comics wondering why this guy in the stupid blue vest was running with a smile on his face. I would NEVER read that book I knew. Not too long after I spotted a book in the grocery store (Food Basket, now called Lucky) with the Doc logo--I'm sure that is what caught my eye --and there was the guy with the funny hair but not the stupid vest. For some reason I thought a REAL book about a super hero was the coolest thing. "I flipped it over and the ultra-real Doc seemed to be looking right into me, and after reading Bantam's famous description I knew I had to have it and begged my mom to buy it for me. "The book was SPOOK HOLE and after re-reading it over 20 years later I found it not to be the best of the stories by far but after I had finished it as a kid I was hooked. Maybe it's because I was proud of myself for figuring out a few of the plot devices ahead of time or just Dent's pure style that grabbed me. I'm just glad my mom caved and that day I became a Doc fan." |
| David Owens | has has two favorite novels, The Thousand-Headed Man and, at age 13, his first Doc novel, The Mystic Mullah. "I saw a copy of "The Mystic Mullah" on a rack in a 7/11 store. That dang cover ***hypnotized*** me, and I just had to have it. I got it home, read it in one sitting, and immediately mail-ordered all the other titles that were then available. I had never even heard of pulp fiction before. The idea of the pulp magazines, once my father had explained it to me, was utterly fascinating. I actually felt deprived and put upon because I was born to late for the original pulps! Fortunately, though, I was just the right age for the Pulp Revival of the '60's (spearheaded by Doc, of course). A lot of pulp fiction was being reprinted in those years, and I read not only the Bantam reprints of Doc Savage, but the Pyramid reprints of the Shadow, and the Corinth/Regency reprints of the Phantom Detective, Operator 5, Dr. Death, and Secret Agent X. This was in addition to the Ba of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars novels, the Ace reprints of his other SF novels, as well as the Lancer reprints of Conan. I had a helluva collection -- then one day I got strapped for cash and sold 'em all to a used book store. The foolishness of youth! But Doc was the first, and the most fondly remembered. Long live Doc Savage! |
| Mike Proto's | favorite story is The Man of Bronze, but he has a Phantom City connection, "Great cover art. I remember that the book store had around 5 different titles on the shelf and I couldn't make up my mind which to buy (only had $1). Decided to get the Phantom City. Now I have a framed Graphitti Poster of that same Bama cover in my work office." |
| Don Reynolds | At 29, on has been reading Doc Savage for 21 years. His favorite novel is The Red Spider. His favorite cover is Quest of Qui and considers The Red Terrors the worst cover. He adds though, "I do not yet own the complete set (only 60) so you have to take my best and worst with a grain of salt." |
| Arthur C. Sippo MD, MPH, LFIBA | makes another vote for The Man of Bronze as best novel. He adds that The Green Death is the worst novel. The Man of Bronze gets the nod for best cover, but The South Pole Terror gets worst cover. |
| Duane Spurlock | has too many favorite stories to choose just one. (He names The Man Who Shook the Earth as the worst novel though.) He can look back 25 years for his first Doc novel, "I remember the first Doc I bought. I was in one of the local dime stores--Kuhn's, which always kept a wire-rack of westerns, mysteries, and romances by the stair leading down to the toy and pets section--when all those colorful Doc Savage covers caught my eye. I looked 'em over and read the blurbs. I ended up buying the one with the most intersting cover: #61, The Living Fire Menace. Nowadays, I can't say that it's the best or my favorite Doc adventure, but it made a big enough impression that I searched out more Docs and read each one as I found it. And the cover to #61 remains one of my favorite covers!" |
| Chris Twedt | is a recent convert to Doc Savage. After two years she can name her favorite, Fear Cay, and least favorite, Flight in Fear. Her first is easy to remember, "My first novel that I started reading was The Man of Bronze... it was a rainy day and I was at my boyfriend's apartment, looking for something to read. He has about a dozen of the paperbacks, and suggested I start at the beginning. I didn't really care for Doc back then, back in his killing days. I don't think I ever finished Man of Bronze, though I do own a copy of it. Ditto for Land of Terror. The first Doc I finished - and the one that got me addicted - was Land of Always-Night, which I simply devoured. My next novel was Fear Cay, which not only solidified me as a Doc Savage fan, but also made Johnny my favorite assistant. Is it any wonder that The Forgotten Realm is my favorite new Doc? :) I've nearly completed my Bantam collection (T-minus one single, one double, and three Omni's), thanks in a LARGE part to the crew on alt.fan.doc-savage! The discussions and insights on the board, the variety of Web pages devoted to Doc and the crew, and the advantage of having Will Murray right there on the newsgroup are fabulous, and I hope that we can soon convince Bantam to let Will write again... and convince Hollywood that there's a market for a new, non-camp Doc movie. After watching the 1996 Emmys, I'm sold on the idea of David Hyde-Pierce (from Frasier) as Long Tom! |
| Larry Widen | took the knowledge gained in his 25 plus years as a Doc Savage fan to write Arch Enemy of Evil, his guide to the Doc Savage novels. He'll tell you his favorite novel is The Man of Bronze, but wouldn't all any of the novels "bad." He can recall his first novel, "Land of Terror. I bought it at B. Dalton bookstore in my local mall because I liked the cover. If you guys check out the foreword in my book, "Doc Savage, Arch Enemy of Evil," I think I did a pretty fair job of telling what Doc means to me and why I was motivated to put that book together after all these years. |
| David Brown | Started collecting Doc novels 16 years ago at 14. He has too many favorite and least favorite stories to list. The Bantam "Man of Bronze" movie edition cover is his favorite and he casts another vote for The Monsters as his least favorite cover. He's still working on his collection, "Almost complete set of Bantams, still trying to find those last few. I'm trying my best to locate them personally, but I'm down to about seven or so and pickings are slim. I have one or two of the Golden press hardbacks." |
| Paul McCall | started read Doc Savage 33 years ago at age nine. He said there are too many good stories to choose a favorite, but any Pfeiffer or Boris cover gets his nod for worst cover. His favorite Bama cover is Death in Silver and his favorite pulp cover is The King Maker. |
| Terry Klasek | has spent the last 33 years reading Doc Savage. He started at age 17 and will tell you that The Freckled Shark is his favorite story. Terry has another Doc Savage connection: "I was the first fan to visit Norma Dent in 1975. I got her to come to a mini-con I held in St. Louis in Summer 1976. This was her first exposure to Doc Fans. We talked often about Lester Dent and Doc. She was a great person, and gave freely. I will miss her. We visited Lester's grave. I have been a Doc fan for a long time and would like to talk with other fans." |
| Andrew K. Henry | 35, picked up his first Doc Savage 22 years ago at the town library while visiting his grandparents. His favorite story is The Sargasso Ogre and he counts The Crimson Serpent as his least favorite. For covers he likes Escape from Loki and can't abide by The Stone Man. (Editor's Note: Now he has a better choice for The Stone Man with Ron Hill's version.) Andrew picks up his story: (I have) no complete sets of anything. I had several of the large Marvel Doc comics which I loaned to one of my cousins. His parents got divorced and they disappeared (I suspect his mother, who never liked us reading Doc Savage.) I'm still kicking myself for letting those get away from me. I am currently trying to buy up copies of the Docs I don't have in my collection. |
| Clay Dixon | 36, has been reading Docs for 23 years. Clay must have a connection to Vancouver because his favorite novel is "Murder Melody, because it takes place in Vancouver." He then relates that he feels the worst story is "Murder Melody. Despite Vancouver being its locale, the plot bites in a major way." Clay also finds Death in Silver to be the best cover, but dislikes anything after Bama. |
| Carl William Thiel | also counts The Sargasso Ogre as his favorite story. Carl, 41, has been reading Docs for 27 years. He called Land of Always-Night the worst story, but his collection isn't complete. "Like many fans I do not have all the omnibuses. Apparently they are hard to come by. Seemingly everybody wants or needs them." |
| Preston Wood | 35, started reading Doc at age 13. His favorite story is The Lost Oasis. He says the worst covers are "just about all the Bantam Omnibus covers." His favorite cover is Boris Valejo's The Roar Devil. (Editor's Note: I think that's the only Boris vote so far.) |
| Bob Oprondek | started reading Docs 21 years ago at age 14. He gives another vote for The Sargasso Ogre as his favorite story. The Melody Makers gets the nod as worst story. The Man of Bronze gets his vote as best Bantam cover. |
| Dominick Cericola | 28, sent us his story through email. "I don't recall exactly how I came upon Doc & his Amazing Five. All I can remember is it was sometime around the 5th or 6th Grade ('79-'80).. Not sure of the title -- was either The Monsters or The Thousand-Headed Man. I do remember that it took my breath away, and, most importantly, that my Life would never be the same ever again..! Doc & the Five have had a remarkable influence on my Life, and I believe their Adventures will follow me even into the Great Beyond..!
I bought my last Doc novel, The Jade Ogre, at K-Mart. I haven't bought anymore in awhile, due to lack of funds at the time they came out. But, I am trying to get back into the new ones, tough to find, tho'.. My favorite novel is a tie -- The Majii & The Red Spider (*Note: I haven't had the luck of reading all of the supersagas, tho' I am getting close.) Dominick's least favorite novel is The Monsters. His favorite cover is the Bantam reprint of Resurrection Day and his least favorite cover is the Bantam reprint of The Land of Always-Night. |
| Toreen L. Augustine Salberg | Four years ago she married into the Doc Savage family and adopted the children, "The first Doc book I ever read was "The Man of Bronze" My fiancee, Martin, decided that if I was going to marry him, I should have some idea who the major influences in his life were. As I was already familiar with Superman and Captain America, he handed me the Doc Savage book. My mother-in-law promised me I'd love it and she was right. I saw a lot of my husband-to-be in this strange bronze figure. The more I read, the more I knew where certain attitudes, habits, and goals had come from. Believe it or not, this knowledge has actually made the transition from living alone to being married much easier. I have a better insight into his personality than I would have had otherwise. Not to mention, I LOVE the stories!" |
| John Gerard Bodner | At 14, 26 short years ago he discovered Doc Savage at school, "Two guys a grade ahead of me in high school were reading and discussing Doc paperbacks in the library. I was immediately intrigued by the James Bama covers. I quickley ran out and started my lifelong love and hobby of c ollecting Doc Savage and other related pulp material. Thank you very much for keeping and actually adding to the history and excitement that I have alway s associated with Doc Savage adventures." |
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| Cat Jaster | At nine, the now famous "Frozencat" read her first Doc Savage novel. We can blame her "unusual" start on youth, "I stole one from my brother's room because I needed something to read. I need one book to complete my pb collection. I have 96 Doc pulps and am looking for the other 85." |
| Larry G. Gouliard Jr. | "likes 'em all" when it comes to Doc Savage novels. He started 25 years ago at age 12, "I remember reading Mad Eyes and Land of Long JuJu as a preteenager (my first two books). Have been hooked ever since. I reread my modest collection (need only 23, 29, 43 and 86 and the doubles) every two years or so. My reading interests are varied from electrical engineering to fiction but for PURE READING ENJOYMENT DOC SAVAGE CANNOT BE EQUALLED. (although I do have to admit that Clancy's Jack Ryan is pretty good) Dent's Doc Savage takes the reader back to a simpler time when evil was black and the hero always wore white. A time when science promised to cure all the world's woes." |
| Gary Miles | While the movie doesn't have a lot of fans, it brought Gary into the Doc world, "I saw (the) commercial for Pal's "Man of Bronze", then saw books. Got 7 books for Christmas from folks." |
| Cynthia J. Haldeman | told the readers of alt.fan.doc-savage about her start into the Doc Savage world, "I've been lurking on this news group for some time. It's been a joy to find people that share one of my oldest loves. I read my first Doc (Terror in the Navy) when I was about 10. My older brother had left it sitting out. After that I was forced to sneak in to his to swipe all he had and then eventually I ended buying them for myself. I'm now pushing 40 and I still love them. What's not to like? Great stories with humor, lots of action and adventure and characters that you can really look up to. I'll admit that I always like the stories that had Pat in them the best. Thiry years ago she was about the only strong female character you could find. I think that one of the best things was that Doc wasn't a super hero that you could never hope to match. He was human - granted, better trained both physically and mentally, but still within reach. Doc was a great role model - never too preachy but with sound moral values that I've found have stuck with me through the years." |
| Alain Berguerand | Now in his 21st year as a Savageologist, Alain is the curator of L'Homme de Bronze a French version Doc Savage web site. He counts Merchants of Disaster as his favorite story, and Flight into Fear as his least favorite. Add a vote for Dagger in the Sky as best Bantam cover and another vote for Land of Terror as worst cover. Now we'll let Alain continue, "I was 4 when first exposed to Doc Savage. We lived in small flat, and my father's library was located in my room. During the afternoons, while I was supposed to be taking a nap, I kept looking at the Doc Savage cover painting (from the french Marabout translation). I was really impressed by Bama's hyperrealistic art. Red Snow really frightened me. I thought Doc was the bad guy of the story. A few years later, having learned to read, I started collecting the french edition and eventually got the whole set (40). For a few bucks, I sold them and forgot Doc for about 15 years. In 1991, I found a few french Docs at a flea market booth and started to collect again. During a trip to London in 1993, I found several used Bantam paperbacks, the last Omnibuses and the first Will Murrays. I learned there were far more Docs in English than the mere 40 that had been translated in french. So I started collecting the Bantam paperbacks and eventually got the whole set in 1995. |
| Scott Johnson | has been reading Doc Savage since he was 12. After 23 years he's decided that Fortress of Solitude is his favorite story and Meteor Menace as his least. |
| Steven Finlay | At 33 Steven makes it three in a row for 21st year Doc fans. He said he started reading Docs after seeing one at the store, "The Green Death cover pulled me in!" But, his favorite novel is Fortress of Solitude and The Yellow Cloud is his favorite Bantam cover. His worst cover vote is for The Brand of the Werewolf. He continues, "In my opinion, the best treatment of Doc in the comics was Dave Stevens' representation of him in the Rocketeer. Second best was the Millenium run, which I have a colored page from. Having bronze colored hair myself, I am a fan of Doc with hair that looks like hair. Bama is great, but he ruined it for all artists following." |
| Robert Howard | was introduced, at 12, to Doc by a relative. (Blood is thicker than water!) And has been reading them for 20 years. A first vote for Quest of Qui as favorite novel comes from Robert, with least favorite going to The Monsters. The Red Skull gets favorite cover status and Land of Long JuJu comes in as worst cover. |
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| Tim Handley | also started at 12 and now, at 35, still feels the Man of Bronze is the best novel. He cared least for The Lost Giant. His Bantam cover nominations are: The Flaming Falcons for best cover and worst cover is awarded to The Devil Ghengis. Tim has a very sad story to tell, "I lost my complete set of paperbacks and several pulps in a move several years ago. As I recall, however, the pulps were extremely difficult to find and outrageously expensive. Who can afford to have a complete set of them?" (Editor's Note: I think Cat's heading that way...) |
| Hardyboy | has made a name for himself on alt.fan.docsave. The 46 year old Mr. Boy started reading Doc Savage at 19. His favorite story is Land Of Always Night and another land story gets worst novel, Land of Long Ju Ju. He counts World' s Fair Goblin as the best Bantam cover and Metal Master as Bantam's worst. |
| David E. Oxford | started Doc at the golden age of 12 and has been reading the adventures for 32 years. His has a double favorite in The Man of Bronze (favorite story and cover). The Red Spider gets the nod for worst story and "most of the doubles" are his least favorite covers. |
| Jerry Sutton | is 30 now, but saw his first Doc Savage novel at 16 in the store. He reports that he has "never read one (novel) I didn't like" but his favorite novel is The Red Spider. (He and Davaid Oxford would have a lot to discuss.) Jerry relates his story, "As an avid reader at a young age, I often passed by the book racks at any store I happened to be in. I was facenated by the covers of Doc Savage novels. The massive MAN OF BRONZE standing in his customary pose, fists clenched, glaring at me from the shelf. I finally succumbed and bought a novel. I was hooked from the very first. Someday soon I hope to retrieve my collection (in a closet somewhere at my parents home) and complete it." |
The 1936 Hidalgo Bombers are still considered the finest team ever to play professional baseball. The team appeared from nowhere and vanished almost as quickly. The were led by one of the most mysterious men ever to own a baseball team, Clark "Doc" Savage, Jr.
Many consider this triple threat -- Savage owned the team, managed it, and started in center field -- to be the purest player in history. In the space of 154 short games Savage destroyed the Babe's home run record, took home a 20 game winning season as a starting pitcher, and brought the World Series title to a country that had never played baseball before.
It's well know among baseball fans that the banning of Savage and his crew by Kenasaw Mountain Landis was politically motivated. The other owners couldn't buy any of the Bombers. Threats against Savage and his team were laughed off -- it's reported those making the threats just disappeared!
The Bombers won 119 games that year. That's a record only the 1998 New York Yankees and 2001 Seattle Mariners could chase. How did the Bombers do so well? In addition to Savage's mighty bat and his baseball cunning, the team possessed 6 other players so great that all were voted as special members of the Hall of Fame. Each after being in baseball for only one season!
The First Baseman, John "Renny" Renwick, carried the heaviest bat in baseball. Some joke that the bat leaning against the Louisville Slugger Museum is his. That bat drove many a run in for Renwick. Batting third for the Bombers, Renwick led the league in triples, doubles, and singles. A feat no one else has ever engineered. According to the Bombers, Renwick stood 6-4 and weighed 250.
One of his opponents, Ty Cobb, remembers Renwick, "His damn hands weighed more than 250! They were the biggest, boniest, ugliest buckets I ever saw. I saw him take a called third from some dumb a** NL umpire in the series and Renwick just glared at the man. Damn, but that umpire turned white! Renny just strode off the field and with one punch the boy knocked a hole through a solid wood door! That's when I decided to retire. Figured it was a game for the young."
Covering second for the Bombers was another peculiar player.
William Harper "Johnny" Littlejohn, would stand near second and seem to be looking in the first-base stands. Rumor was the man couldn't see a lick out of his left eye. That didn't stop him from playing second like an octopus. One of the tallest second basemen I've ever seen, Littlejohn was listed at 6-6, but he had to be 6-10. He looked half-starved, but could run like the wind. He led off for the Bombers and stole more bases in one season than anyone until Luis Aparicio tied his record with the White Sox in '60.
Littlejohn was called "Rocks" by the local press. When he found a rock in the dirt he didn't throw it off the field like most players. He'd carry them in his pocket and study them between innings. But it wasn't only his fondness for stones that identified Littlejohn...his vocabulary was larger than Webster's. Doc would always send Littlejohn out to talk to the writers after a game, and a more humorous sight outside of Abbott and Costello couldn't have been found. Sportswriter Lester Dent remembered Littlejohn, "Doc must have had a strange sense of humor, because Johnny spoke a brand of English no one outside of Harvard and Yale could understand. Let alone a bunch of dumb sportswriters."
"We'd spend half the interview asking Littlejohn to spell one of the 10 dollar words he has just threw at us. It was probably 5 minutes of Littlejohn answering the first question and 25 minutes of us asking him to repeat what he just said. I don't think we got to ask a second question all season. Hell, when we'd look up all those blasted words he always seemed to say the same thing: "We played well."
"Long Tom" Thomas Roberts played third for the entire season with the Bombers. Actually, that was a greater feat than you'd think. Roberts didn't look like a player with the stamina of Cal Ripkin. Actually, he seemed on the verge of death every time he ventured onto the field. Thin and not very tall, Roberts was ghostly white and always could be heard complaining about the mosquitoes on the Polo Grounds. As a matter of fact, Long Tom set up a scary looking contraption on the fence near third for most of the Bombers home games. He called it his "Jersey Canary" killer. Radios would give only static and over half the city would dim every time Roberts plugged in his contraption.
The shortstop for the team was one Theodore Marley Brooks. A slender, waspy, quick handed "dude". Brooks looked as fancy as his name sounded. Possibly the first player to have all his uniforms hand sewn by the finest tailors in New York. Opposing pitchers didn't laugh when Brooks stepped to the plate though. With his trademark black Slugger, Brooks was able to pepper hits to any position on the field. During the Bombers first cross town series with the Dodgers he would have set a record for stealing home in one game -- if it wasn't for the unfortunate porcine incident the ninth inning. As the pitcher went into his windup Brooks tore for home. It would be his 4th steal of home that day. Out of nowhere a pig ran onto the field and slid into home one step ahead of the shortstop. The umpire called interference and sent Brooks back to third.
After the papers dubbed him "Ham", Brooks seemed to take his wrath out on one of the other Bombers. Rumor was that the Bombers catcher, 
Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair, had taught a pet pig he named Habeas Corpus, to slide. He even dressed the pig up in a Bombers uniform with Brooks' number on his back.
Monk was an apt name for the catcher. At just over 5 feet tall the catcher outweighed everyone except Renwick. He had the build of a gorilla and a chest that had to be thicker than it was wide. Brooks claimed that Mayfair wasn't actually human, but a "missing link." It didn't stop the ladies from swarming to Mayfair. He always seemed to be chatting up a young miss while standing in the on deck circle. He was ready to bat when his turn came though. Mayfair would settle into his stance and stare at the pitcher. He wouldn't move his bat or his feet. He stood at the plate like a statue.
Monk stood so close to the plate that he set another record for the Bombers -- most hit by pitcher. Mayfair took more pitches than the rest of professional baseball combined. No pitcher was able to brush him back. He was beaned so hard in the last game of the series that the owners voted in the off season to make helmets a mandatory part of the game. Mayfair took that pitch to his hard head and simply trotted to first.
Savage broke a baseball barrier years before the women's leagues played. He started his cousin, Patricia Savage, in left field for a series of home stands. Though many called the move a public relations ploy equal to Bill Veek's pinch hitting a Little Person for the St. Louis Browns, Ms Savage was an accomplished fielder. Her fielding average for the 25 games was .990 and she hit a respectable .245 batting eighth for the team. Many of the opposing pitchers wasted pitches "brushing back" Ms Savage. She would hit the dirt, stand and glare at the pitcher, and pound the next pitch. In one celebrated instance Ms Savage was "brushed" to the ground for the 5th time in one game. She stood, pointed to the left field stands and took hurler Rube Waddell's next pitch into the upper deck for her only home run of the season!
The Golden Man states Doc's birthplace is Andros Island. There are actually two islands called Andros. The first is off the coast of Greece. The second is one of the Bahama Islands. Farmer believes it is the latter island. He barely explains his reasoning for that decision. We can't call the location a given. We'll leave it to another article to decide this question.
Savage Cosmetics
Re-discovered by CG Welch
While doing a little research I stumbled on a rare advertisement from Patricia Savage's cosmetic company. Many have read about her exclusive beauty salon, but few were aware of her foray into cosmetic sales.
This is a formula, a master plot, for any 6000 word pulp story. It has worked on adventure, detective, western and war-air. It tells exactly where to put everything. It shows definitely just what must happen in each successive thousand words. No yarn of mine written to the formula has yet failed to sell. The business of building stories seems not much different from the business of building anything else.
Here's how it starts:
1. A DIFFERENT MURDER METHOD FOR VILLAIN TO USE
2. A DIFFERENT THING FOR VILLAIN TO BE SEEKING
3. A DIFFERENT LOCALE
4. A MENACE WHICH IS TO HANG LIKE A CLOUD OVER HERO
One of these DIFFERENT things would be nice, two better, three swell. It may help if they are fully in mind before tackling the rest.
A different murder method could be--different. Thinking of shooting, knifing, hydrocyanic, garroting, poison needles, scorpions, a few others, and writing them on paper gets them where they may suggest something. Scorpions and their poison bite? Maybe mosquitos or flies treated with deadly germs?
If the victims are killed by ordinary methods, but found under strange and identical circumstances each time, it might serve, the reader of course not knowing until the end, that the method of murder is ordinary. Scribes who have their villain's victims found with butterflies, spiders or bats stamped on them could conceivably be flirting with this gag. Probably it won't do a lot of good to be too odd, fanciful or grotesque with murder methods.
The different thing for the villain to be after might be something other than jewels, the stolen bank loot, the pearls, or some other old ones. Here, again one might get too bizarre.
Unique locale? Easy. Selecting one that fits in with the murder method and the treasure--thing that villain wants--makes it simpler, and it's also nice to use a familiar one, a place where you've lived or worked. So many pulpateers don't. It sometimes saves embarrassment to know nearly as much about the locale as the editor, or enough to fool him.
Here's a nifty much used in faking local color. For a story laid in Egypt, say, author finds a book titled "Conversational Egyptian Easily Learned," or something like that. He wants a character to ask in Egyptian, "What's the matter?" He looks in the book and finds, "El khabar, eyh?" To keep the reader from getting dizzy, it's perhaps wise to make it clear in some fashion, just what that means. Occasionally the text will tell this, or someone can repeat it in English. But it's a doubtful move to stop and tell the reader in so many words the English translation.
The writer learns they have palm trees in Egypt. He looks in the book, finds the Egyptian for palm trees, and uses that. This kids editors and readers into thinking he knows something about Egypt.
Here's the second installment of the master plot.
Divide the 6000 word yarn into four 1500 word parts. In each 1500 word part, put the following:
FIRST 1500 WORDS
1--First line, or as near thereto as possible, introduce the hero and swat him with a fistful of trouble. Hint at a mystery, a menace or a problem to be solved--something the hero has to cope with.
2--The hero pitches in to cope with his fistful of trouble. (He tries to fathom the mystery, defeat the menace, or solve the problem.)
3--Introduce ALL the other characters as soon as possible. Bring them on in action.
4--Hero's endevours land him in an actual physical conflict near the end of the first 1500 words.
5--Near the end of first 1500 words, there is a complete surprise twist in the plot development.
SO FAR: Does it have SUSPENSE? Is there a MENACE to the hero? Does everything happen logically?
At this point, it might help to recall that action should do something besides advance the hero over the scenery. Suppose the hero has learned the dastards of villains have seized somebody named Eloise, who can explain the secret of what is behind all these sinister events. The hero corners villains, they fight, and villains get away. Not so hot.
Hero should accomplish something with his tearing around, if only to rescue Eloise, and surprise! Eloise is a ring-tailed monkey. The hero counts the rings on Eloise's tail, if nothing better comes to mind. They're not real. The rings are painted there. Why?
SECOND 1500 WORDS
1--Shovel more grief onto the hero.
2--Hero, being heroic, struggles, and his struggles lead up to:
3--Another physical conflict.
4--A surprising plot twist to end the 1500 words.
NOW: Does second part have SUSPENSE? Does the MENACE grow like a black cloud? Is the hero getting it in the neck? Is the second part logical?
DON'T TELL ABOUT IT***
Show how the thing looked. This is one of the secrets of writing; never tell the reader--show him. (He trembles, roving eyes, slackened jaw, and such.) MAKE THE READER SEE HIM.
When writing, it helps to get at least one minor surprise to the printed page. It is reasonable to to expect these minor surprises to sort of inveigle the reader into keeping on. They need not be such profound efforts.
One method of accomplishing one now and then is to be gently misleading. Hero is examining the murder room. The door behind him begins slowly to open. He does not see it. He conducts his examination blissfully. Door eases open, wider and wider, until--surprise! The glass pane falls out of the big window across the room. It must have fallen slowly, and air blowing into the room caused the door to open. Then what the heck made the pane fall so slowly? More mystery. Characterizing a story actor consists of giving him some things which make him stick in the reader's mind.
TAG HIM. BUILD YOUR PLOTS SO THAT ACTION CAN BE CONTINUOUS.
THIRD 1500 WORDS
1--Shovel the grief onto the hero.
2--Hero makes some headway, and corners the villain or somebody in:
3--A physical conflict.
4--A surprising plot twist, in which the hero preferably gets it in the neck bad, to end the 1500 words.
DOES: It still have SUSPENSE? The MENACE getting blacker? The hero finds himself in a hell of a fix? It all happens logically?
These outlines or master formulas are only something to make you certain of inserting some physical conflict, and some genuine plot twists, with a little suspense and menace thrown in. Without them, there is no pulp story.
These physical conflicts in each part might be DIFFERENT, too. If one fight is with fists, that can take care of the pugilism until next the next yarn. Same for poison gas and swords. There may, naturally, be exceptions. A hero with a peculiar punch, or a quick draw, might use it more than once. The idea is to avoid monotony.
ACTION: Vivid, swift, no words wasted. Create suspense, make the reader see and feel the action.
ATMOSPHERE: Hear, smell, see, feel and taste.
DESCRIPTION: Trees, wind, scenery and water.
THE SECRET OF ALL WRITING IS TO MAKE EVERY WORD COUNT.
FOURTH 1500 WORDS
1--Shovel the difficulties more thickly upon the hero.
2--Get the hero almost buried in his troubles. (Figuratively, the villain has him prisoner and has him framed for a murder rap; the girl is presumably dead, everything is lost, and the DIFFERENT murder method is about to dispose of the suffering protagonist.)
3--The hero extricates himself using HIS OWN SKILL, training or brawn.
4--The mysteries remaining--one big one held over to this point will help grip interest--are cleared up in course of final conflict as hero takes the situation in hand.
5--Final twist, a big surprise, (This can be the villain turning out to be the unexpected person, having the "Treasure" be a dud, etc.) 6--The snapper, the punch line to end it.
HAS: The SUSPENSE held out to the last line? The MENACE held out to the last? Everything been explained? It all happen logically? Is the Punch Line enough to leave the reader with that WARM FEELING? Did God kill the villain? Or the hero? The End
From: Jason A. Wolcott Newsgroups: alt.fan.doc-savage,alt.pulp Subject: Lester Dent's Master Plot Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:20:29 -0500 Uploaded by Jason A. Wolcott, from Marilyn Cannaday's biography of Lester Dent, "Bigger Than Life: the Creator of Doc Savage." (c) 1990 Bowling Green State University Popular Press. Original publication circa 1950s
El Hombre de Bronce! Albobo's old Father Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain Lista de titulos de DOC SAVAGE y otros, publicados en España y Argentina por la Editorial Molino a partir del 4 de Abril de 1936 hasta 1953, en la coleccion HOMBRES AUDACES que contenìa basicamente , cuatro personajes o heroes : DOC SAVAGE, LA SOMBRA, BILL BARNES y PETE RICE. La numeracion amparaba las publicaciones de todos estos personajes conjuntamente. | |||
| Spanish Title | Translated Title | Original Title | Orig. Mag No. |
| El hombre de Bronce | The Bronze Man | The Man Of Bronze | 1 |
| La tierra del terror | The Earth of the Terror | The Land Of Terror | 2 |
| Asesinos en accion | Assassins in Action | Quest Of The Spider | 3 |
| El tesoro del Polo | The Treasure of Polo | The Polar Treasure | 4 |
| Los piratas del Pacífico | The Pirates of the Pacific | Pirate Of The Pacific | 5 |
| La Calavera Roja | Red Calavera | The Red Skull | 6 |
| 1.000.000 de recompensa | 1,000,000 of compensate | The Lost Oasis | 7 |
| El ogro del Mar de los Sargazos | Ogro of Sea of the Sargazos | The Sargasso Ogre | 8 |
| La campana verde | The Green Bell | The Czar Of Fear | 9 |
| La ciudad fantasma | The Ghost City | The Phantom City | 10 |
| La marca del hombre lobo | The mark of the man wolf | The Brand Of The Werewolf | 11 |
| El rey de las municiones | The king of the ammunition | The Munitions Master | 66 |
| El misterio de la nieve | The mystery of the snow | The Mystery On The Snow | 15 |
| Misterio en el abismo | Mystery in the abyss | The Mystery Under The Sea | 36 |
| El gran terremoto | The great earthquake | Man Who Shook The Earth | 12 |
| Locura azul | Blue madness | Meteor Menace | |
| Los monstruos | The monsters | The Monsters | 14 |
| El terror purpureo | The purpureo terror | ||
| El hombre de las mil cabezas | The man of the thousand heads | The Thousand-Headed Man | 17 |
| El manantial de juventud | The youth spring | Fear Cay | 19 |
| La muerte vestida de plata | The death dressed silver | Death In Silver | 20 |
| El mago del mar | The magician of the sea | The Sea Magician | 21 |
| El aniquilador | The annihilator | The Annihilist | 22 |
| El terror verde | The green terror | The Mystic Mullah | 23 |
| Nieve roja | Red snow | Red Snow | 24 |
| El pais de la nieve eterna | Pais of the eternal snow | The Land Of Always-Night | 25 |
| Legion de fantasmas | Legion of ghosts | The Spook Legion | 26 |
| Secreto del cielo | Secret of the sky | The Secret In The Sky | 27 |
| Peligro oculto | Hidden danger | The Roar Devil | 28 |
| El inca gris | The gray Inca | Dust Of Death | 32 |
| La melodía del crimen | Melodía of the crime | Murder Melody | 33 |
| El crater fantasma | The ghost crater | Spook Hole | 30 |
| El Maji | The Maji | The Majii | 31 |
| La isla fantastica | The fantastica island | The Fantastic Island | 34 |
| El espejismo del crimen | The mirage of the crime | Murder Mirage | 35 |
| Misterio submarino | Submarine mystery | Mystery Under The Sea | 36 |
| Los siete diablos de agata | The seven devils of agata | The Seven Agate Devils | 39 |
| El oceano encantado | The enchanted oceano | The Haunted Ocean | 40 |
| El amo del metal | The master of the metal | The Metal Master | 37 |
| Locura feroz | Ferocious madness | Men Who Smiled No More | 38 |
| La marca negra | The black mark | The Black Spot | 41 |
| El nuevo Midas | The New Midas | The Midas Man | 42 |
| El terror del Polo Sur | The terror of the South Pole | The South Pole Terror | 44 |
| El jorobado misterioso | The mysterious hunchback one | The Vanisher | 46 |
| El dia de la resurreccion | The day of the resurrection | Ressurection Day | 45 |
| Los demonios rojos | The red demons | The Red Terrors | 67 |
| El secreto de Klantic | The secret of Klantic | The Mental Wizard | 49 |
| El rayo helado | The frozen ray | Cold Death | 43 |
| La muerte verde | The green death | The Green Death | 69 |
| La meseta de la locura | The plateau of madness | Mad Mesa | 71 |
| El castillo solitario | The solitary castle | The Fortress Of Solitude | 68 |
| La nube amarilla | The yellow cloud | The Yellow Cloud | 72 |
| El ghengis diabolico | Ghengis diabolico | The Devil Genghis | 70 |
| El pais del Largo Juju | Pais of the Juju Length | The Land Of Long Juju | 47 |
| El tiburon moteado | The speckled shark | The Freckled Shark | 73 |
| Ojos de locura | Eyes of madness | Mad Eyes | 51 |
| La tierra del miedo | The Earth of the fear | The Land Of Fear | 52 |
| Terror en la flota | Terror in the fleet | The Terror In the Navy | 50 |
| El puede detener el mundo | It can stop the world | He Could Stop The World | 53 |
| Ost | Ost | Ost | 54 |
| El hombre pulpo | the man squid | The Feathered Octopus | 55 |
| El fantastico Repel | The fantastico Repel | Repel | 56 |
| El angel del mar | The angel of the sea | The Sea Angel | 57 |
| El peligro dorado | The golden danger | The Golden Peril | 58 |
| La amenaza del fuego | The threat of the fire | The Living Fire Menace | 59 |
| El monstruo de la montaña | The monster of the mountain | The Mountain Monster | 60 |
| Demonio en la luna | Demon in the moon | Devil On The Moon | 61 |
| El espectro del pirata | The phantom of the pirate | The Pirate's Ghost | 62 |
| El muro invisible | The invisible wall | The Motion Menace | 63 |
| El submarino misterioso | The mysterious submarine | The Submarine Mystery | 64 |
| Los fantasmas que rien | The ghosts that rien | The Giggling Ghosts | 65 |
| Los ogros de oro | The ogros of gold | The Gold Ogre | 75 |
| El pajaro asesino | Pajaro killer | The Flaming Falcons | 76 |
| Mercaderes de desastres | Merchants of disasters | Merchants Of Disaster | 77 |
| La serpiente roja | The red serpent | The Crimson Serpent | 78 |
| La isla del veneno | The island of the poison | Poison Island | 79 |
| El hombre de piedra | The stone man | The Stone Man | 80 |
| La ciudad de los espectros | The city of the phantoms | Hex | 81 |
| El signo del puñal | The sign of the dagger | The Dagger In The Sky | 82 |
| El otro mundo | The other world | The Other World | 83 |
| El fantasma iracundo | The ghost iracundo | The Angry Ghost | 84 |
| Los hombres moteados | The speckled men | The Spotted Men | 85 |
| El enano maligno | The malignant dwarf | The Evil Gnome | 86 |
| El amo del terror | The master of the terror | The Boss Of Terror | 87 |
| El huevo espantoso | The frightful egg | The Awful Egg | 88 |
| Fantasmas que rien... | Ghosts that rien... | The Flying Goblin | 89 |
| El tunel del terror | The tunnel of the terror | The Tunnel Terror | 90 |
| El dragon purpureo | The purpureo dragoon | The Purple Dragon | 91 |
| Demonios del abismo | Demons of the abyss | Devils Of The Deep | 92 |
| La dinastia sangrienta | Dinastia bloody | The Awful Dynasty | 93 |
| La comarca del diablo | The region of the devil | The Devil's Playground | 95 |
| Herencia diabolica | Diabolica inheritance | Bequest Of Evil | 96 |
| El hombre de oro | The man of gold | The Golden Man | 98 |
| La misteriosa luz blanca | The mysterious white light | The All-White Elf | 97 |
| La muchacha color de rosa | The girl rose color | The Pink Lady | 99 |
| La legion de los descabezados | The legion of the descabezados ones | The Headless Men | 100 |
| El aguila verde | Aguila green | The Green Eagle | 101 |
Thanks to: Albobo's old Father , Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain and his son, Albert Bosch i Boixereu | |||
| Bantam # | Magazine # | Wait # | Bantam Title | Years | Months |
| 24 | 101 | 1 | The Green Eagle | 26 | 10 |
| 25 | 95 | 2 | The Devil's Playground | 27 | 5 |
| 29 | 83 | 3 | The Other World | 28 | 9 |
| 30 | 76 | 4 | The Flaming Falcons | 29 | 5 |
| 23 | 68 | 5 | Fortress of Solitude | 29 | 6 |
| 37 | 81 | 6 | Hex | 29 | 7 |
| 40 | 82 | 7 | The Dagger in the Sky | 29 | 9 |
| 2 | 17 | 8 | The Thousand-Headed Man | 30 | 3 |
| 41 | 77 | 9 | Merchants of Disaster | 30 | 3 |
| 39 | 74 | 10 | World's Fair Goblin | 30 | 4 |
| 42 | 75 | 11 | The Gold Ogre | 30 | 6 |
| 3 | 13 | 12 | Meteor Menace | 30 | 7 |
| 9 | 23 | 13 | The Mystic Mullah | 30 | 10 |
| 14 | 34 | 14 | The Fantastic lsland | 30 | 11 |
| 28 | 56 | 15 | The Deadly Dwarf | 30 | 11 |
| 12 | 29 | 16 | Quest of Qui | 31 | 0 |
| 7 | 14 | 17 | The Monsters | 31 | 2 |
| 15 | 33 | 18 | Murder Melody | 31 | 2 |
| 5 | 11 | 19 | Brand of the Werewolf | 31 | 3 |
| 21 | 43 | 20 | Cold Death | 31 | 4 |
| 57 | 79 | 21 | Poison Island | 31 | 5 |
| 13 | 25 | 22 | Land of Always-Night | 31 | 6 |
| 1 | 1 | 23 | The Man of Bronze | 31 | 7 |
| 6 | 7 | 24 | The Lost Oasis | 31 | 7 |
| 11 | 19 | 25 | Fear Cay | 31 | 8 |
| 4 | 4 | 26 | The Polar Treasure | 31 | 10 |
| 33 | 50 | 27 | The Terror in the Navy | 31 | 10 |
| 34 | 51 | 28 | Mad Eyes | 31 | 10 |
| 16 | 26 | 29 | The Spook Legion | 31 | 11 |
| 59 | 72 | 30 | The Yellow Cloud | 32 | 2 |
| 10 | 10 | 31 | The Phantom City | 32 | 3 |
| 8 | 2 | 32 | The Land of Terror | 32 | 4 |
| 50 | 61 | 33 | Devil on the Moon | 32 | 4 |
| 20 | 27 | 34 | The Secret in the Sky | 32 | 6 |
| 27 | 36 | 35 | Mystery Under the Sea | 32 | 6 |
| 36 | 45 | 36 | Resurrection Day | 32 | 6 |
| 56 | 65 | 37 | The Giggling Ghosts | 32 | 6 |
| 49 | 57 | 38 | The Sea Angel | 32 | 7 |
| 58 | 66 | 39 | The Munitions Master | 32 | 7 |
| 48 | 55 | 40 | The Feathered Octopus | 32 | 8 |
| 55 | 58 | 41 | The Golden Peril | 33 | 0 |
| 65 | 69 | 42 | The Green Death | 33 | 0 |
| 66 | 71 | 43 | Mad Mesa | 33 | 0 |
| 67 | 73 | 44 | The Freckled Shark | 33 | 0 |
| 63 | 64 | 45 | The Submarine Mystery | 33 | 2 |
| 32 | 32 | 46 | Dust of Death | 33 | 3 |
| 47 | 47 | 47 | Land of Long Juju | 33 | 3 |
| 62 | 62 | 48 | The Pirate's Ghost | 33 | 3 |
| 54 | 53 | 49 | He Could Stop the World | 33 | 4 |
| 64 | 63 | 50 | The Motion Menace | 33 | 4 |
| 61 | 59 | 51 | The Living Fire Menace | 33 | 5 |
| 46 | 42 | 52 | The Midas Man | 33 | 7 |
| 53 | 49 | 53 | The Mental Wizard | 33 | 7 |
| 17 | 6 | 54 | The Red Skull | 33 | 9 |
| 18 | 8 | 55 | The Sargasso Ogre | 33 | 9 |
| 26 | 20 | 56 | Death in Silver | 33 | 9 |
| 52 | 46 | 57 | The Vanisher | 33 | 9 |
| 45 | 38 | 58 | The Men Who Smiled No More | 33 | 10 |
| 31 | 22 | 59 | The Annihilist | 34 | 0 |
| 19 | 5 | 60 | Pirate of the Pacific | 34 | 2 |
| 51 | 40 | 61 | Haunted Ocean | 34 | 2 |
| 22 | 9 | 62 | The Czar of Fear | 34 | 4 |
| 38 | 24 | 63 | Red Snow | 34 | 5 |
| 94 | 143 | 64 | The Hate Genius | 34 | 5 |
| 35 | 18 | 65 | The Squeaking Goblin | 34 | 8 |
| 44 | 21 | 66 | The Sea Magician | 35 | 2 |
| 78 | 78 | 67 | The Crimson Serpent | 35 | 2 |
| 98 | 146 | 68 | Cargo Unknown | 35 | 3 |
| 106 | 154 | 69 | The Screaming Man | 35 | 7 |
| 60 | 31 | 70 | The Majii | 35 | 8 |
| 97 | 141 | 71 | Satan Black | 35 | 8 |
| 43 | 12 | 72 | The Man Who Shook the Earth | 35 | 10 |
| 100 | 142 | 73 | The Lost Giant | 35 | 10 |
| 79 | 70 | 74 | The Devil Genghis | 35 | 11 |
| 82 | 86 | 75 | The Evil Gnome | 36 | 1 |
| 96 | 125 | 76 | Mystery on Happy Bones | 36 | 3 |
| 74 | 48 | 77 | The Derrick Devil | 36 | 5 |
| 75 | 52 | 78 | The Land of Fear | 36 | 5 |
| 81 | 80 | 79 | The Stone Man | 36 | 5 |
| 85 | 87 | 80 | The Boss of Terror | 36 | 6 |
| 101 | 136 | 81 | The Pharaoh's Ghost | 36 | 7 |
| 104 | 137 | 82 | The Man Who Was Scared | 36 | 9 |
| 71 | 35 | 83 | Murder Mirage | 36 | 10 |
| 72 | 37 | 84 | The Metal Master | 36 | 10 |
| 73 | 39 | 85 | The Seven Agate Devils | 36 | 10 |
| 86 | 84 | 86 | The Angry Ghost | 36 | 11 |
| 87 | 85 | 87 | The Spotted Men | 37 | 0 |
| 103 | 134 | 88 | The Whisker of Hercules | 37 | 0 |
| 107 | 140 | 89 | Jin San | 37 | 0 |
| 70 | 30 | 90 | Spook Hole | 37 | 1 |
| 99 | 127 | 91 | Hell Below | 37 | 1 |
| 90 | 89 | 92 | The Flying Goblin | 37 | 2 |
| 77 | 44 | 93 | The South Pole Terror | 37 | 4 |
| 109 | 138 | 94 | The Shape of Terror | 37 | 5 |
| 76 | 41 | 95 | The Black Spot | 37 | 9 |
| 114 | 145 | 96 | The Ten-Ton Snakes | 37 | 9 |
| 83 | 67 | 97 | The Red Terrors | 37 | 10 |
| 91 | 91 | 98 | The Purple Dragon | 37 | 10 |
| 110 | 132 | 99 | Death Had Yellow Eyes | 37 | 11 |
| 130 | 178 | 100 | The Swooning Lady | 37 | 11 |
| 102 | 119 | 101 | The Time Terror | 38 | 0 |
| 129 | 177 | 102 | The Angry Canary | 38 | 1 |
| 69 | 15 | 103 | The Mystery on the Snow | 38 | 2 |
| 92 | 88 | 104 | The Awful Egg | 38 | 4 |
| 111 | 131 | 105 | One-Eyed Mystic | 38 | 5 |
| 93 | 90 | 106 | Tunnel Terror | 38 | 6 |
| 84 | 60 | 107 | The Mountain Monster | 38 | 7 |
| 108 | 121 | 108 | The Black, Black Witch | 38 | 7 |
| 105 | 117 | 109 | They Died Twice | 38 | 8 |
| 68 | 3 | 110 | Quest of the Spider | 39 | 0 |
| 113 | 123 | 111 | The Talking Devil | 39 | 7 |
| 142 | 175 | 112 | The Pure Evil | 39 | 7 |
| 89 | 54 | 113 | The Magic Island | 39 | 10 |
| 112 | 113 | 114 | The Man Who Fell Up | 39 | 11 |
| 147 | 174 | 115 | I Died Yesterday | 40 | 1 |
| 146 | 173 | 116 | Once Over Lightly | 40 | 3 |
| 145 | 172 | 117 | Let's Kill Ames | 40 | 5 |
| 144 | 171 | 118 | The Monkey Suit | 40 | 7 |
| 80 | 16 | 119 | The King Maker | 40 | 8 |
| 143 | 170 | 120 | No Light to Die By | 40 | 9 |
| 116 | 112 | 121 | The Speaking Stone | 41 | 0 |
| 115 | 111 | 122 | Pirate Isle | 41 | 1 |
| 120 | 122 | 123 | The King of Terror | 41 | 2 |
| 134 | 152 | 124 | The Thing That Pursued | 41 | 3 |
| 182 | 181 | 125 | Up From Earth's Center | 41 | 3 |
| 126 | 129 | 126 | The Secret of the Su | 41 | 4 |
| 125 | 128 | 127 | The Goblins | 41 | 5 |
| 136 | 155 | 128 | Measures for a Coffin | 41 | 5 |
| 133 | 149 | 129 | King Joe Cay | 41 | 6 |
| 181 | 180 | 130 | Return From Cormoral | 41 | 6 |
| 119 | 116 | 131 | The Laugh of Death | 41 | 8 |
| 151 | 166 | 132 | The Disappearing Lady | 41 | 8 |
| 155 | 169 | 133 | Danger Lies East | 41 | 8 |
| 180 | 179 | 134 | The Green Master | 41 | 9 |
| 88 | 28 | 135 | The Roar Devil | 41 | 11 |
| 122 | 115 | 136 | The Fiery Menace | 42 | 1 |
| 150 | 161 | 137 | Fire and Ice | 42 | 1 |
| 118 | 106 | 138 | Peril in the North | 42 | 2 |
| 121 | 114 | 139 | The Three Wild Men | 42 | 2 |
| 138 | 144 | 140 | Strange Fish | 42 | 4 |
| 141 | 147 | 141 | Rock Sinister | 42 | 5 |
| 179 | 176 | 142 | Terror Wears No Shoes | 42 | 5 |
| 154 | 158 | 143 | Five Fathoms Dead | 42 | 7 |
| 117 | 98 | 144 | The Golden Man | 42 | 10 |
| 137 | 135 | 145 | The Three Devils | 43 | 1 |
| 128 | 124 | 146 | The Running Skeletons | 43 | 2 |
| 172 | 165 | 147 | The Devil Is Jones | 43 | 3 |
| 159 | 153 | 148 | Trouble on Parade | 43 | 4 |
| 176 | 168 | 149 | The Death Lady | 43 | 4 |
| 153 | 148 | 150 | The Terrible Stork | 43 | 5 |
| 175 | 167 | 151 | Target for Death | 43 | 5 |
| 124 | 100 | 152 | The Headless Men | 43 | 6 |
| 135 | 130 | 153 | The Spook of Grandpa Eben | 43 | 6 |
| 170 | 162 | 154 | Three Times a Corpse | 43 | 6 |
| 167 | 157 | 155 | Terror and the Lonely Widow | 43 | 8 |
| 169 | 160 | 156 | Colors for Murder | 43 | 8 |
| 174 | 164 | 157 | Death in Little Houses | 43 | 8 |
| 171 | 159 | 158 | Death is a Round Black Spot | 43 | 9 |
| 177 | 163 | 159 | The Exploding Lake | 43 | 9 |
| 163 | 151 | 160 | Terror Takes 7 | 43 | 10 |
| 162 | 150 | 161 | The Wee Ones | 43 | 11 |
| 168 | 156 | 162 | Se-Pah-Poo | 44 | 0 |
| 123 | 92 | 163 | Devils of the Deep | 44 | 2 |
| 158 | 139 | 164 | Weird Valley | 44 | 6 |
| 132 | 107 | 165 | The Rustling Death | 45 | 0 |
| 131 | 103 | 166 | The Mindless Monsters | 45 | 4 |
| 127 | 97 | 167 | The All-White Elf | 45 | 5 |
| 156 | 126 | 168 | The Mental Monster | 45 | 7 |
| 140 | 108 | 169 | Men of Fear | 45 | 8 |
| 139 | 102 | 170 | Mystery Island | 46 | 2 |
| 149 | 110 | 171 | The Magic Forest | 46 | 4 |
| 178 | 133 | 172 | The Derelict of Skull Shoal | 46 | 7 |
| 165 | 120 | 173 | Waves of Death | 46 | 9 |
| 164 | 118 | 174 | The Devil's Black Rock | 46 | 11 |
| 160 | 105 | 175 | The Invisible-Box Murders | 47 | 8 |
| 166 | 109 | 176 | The Too-Wise Owl | 47 | 8 |
| 148 | 93 | 177 | The Awful Dynasty | 47 | 9 |
| 161 | 104 | 178 | Birds of Death | 47 | 9 |
| 157 | 99 | 179 | The Pink Lady | 47 | 10 |
| 152 | 94 | 180 | The Men Vanished | 47 | 11 |
| 173 | 96 | 181 | Bequest of Evil | 49 | 4 |
L'homme de bronze! | |||
| Original title | Marabout translations | Re-translation in English | |
| The Man of Bronze | L'homme de bronze | The man of bronze | |
| The Thousand-Headed Man | L'homme aux mille têtes | The thousand-headed man | |
| Meteor Menace | La grande terreur | The great terror | |
| The Polar Treasure | Le trésor polaire | The polar treasure | |
| Brand of the Werewolf | La marque de la bête | The brand of the beast | |
| The Lost Oasis | L'oasis perdue | The lost oasis | |
| The Monsters | Les monstres | The monsters | |
| The Land of Terror | Le pays de l'épouvante | The land of terror | |
| The Phantom City | La cité fantôme | The ghost/phantom city | |
| The Mystic Mullah | La mort verte | The green death | |
| Fear Cay | L'île de l'angoisse | The island of anguish | |
| The Quest of Qui | À la poursuite du Quâr | Chasing Quâr | |
| The Fantastic Island | La fosse aux monstres | The monsters' pit-den | |
| Murder Melody | La mélodie de la mort | Death melody | |
| The Spook Legion | La légion fantôme | The ghost legion | |
| Land of Always-Night | Le pays de l'éternelle nuit | Land of eternal night | |
| Red Skull | Le crâne rouge | The red skull | |
| The Sargasso Ogre | L'ogre des Sargasses | The Sargasso ogre | |
| The Secret in the sky | Alerte dans le ciel | Alert in the sky | |
| The Pirate of the Pacific | Le pirate du Pacifique | The pirate of the Pacific | |
| Cold Death | La mort froide | The cold death | |
| The Czar of Fear | Les cagoules vertes | The green hoods | |
| The Green Eagle | Le secret de l'aigle | The eagle's secret | |
| The Devil's Playground | Les guerriers du diable | The Devil's warriors | |
| The Other World | L'autre monde | The other world | |
| The Annihilist | Le destructeur | The destroyer | |
| Mystery Under the Sea | Le mystère sous la mer | The mystery under the sea | |
| Mad eyes | Les yeux du mal | Eyes of evil | |
| Resurrection Day | La trahison de la momie | The mummy's betrayal | |
| Red Snow | La neige rouge | The red snow | |
| The Dagger in the Sky | Le poignard céleste | The celestial dagger | |
| World Fair's Goblin | Les mystères de New York | New York's mysteries | |
| Merchants of Disaster | Les marchands de désastre | The merchants of disaster | |
| The Man who Shook the Earth | L'homme qui ébranla la terre | The man who shook the Earth | |
| The Gold Ogre | L'ogre d'or | The gold ogre | |
| The Sea Magician | Le magicien de la mer | The sea magician | |
| The Feathered Octopus | La Pieuvre-Oiseau | The octopus-bird meaning The winged octopus | |
| The Sea Angel | L'Ange des océans | The sea Angel | |
| Devil on the Moon | Le diable sur la lune | The devil on the moon | |
| The Mental Wizard | Magie mentale | Mental magic | |
| Original title | Lefranqc translations | Re-translation in English | |
| Singles | |||
| The Man of Bronze | L'homme de bronze | The man of bronze | |
| The Land of Terror | Le pays de l'épouvante | The land of terror | |
| The Mystery on the Snow | Le mystère dans la neige | The mystery in the snow (first translation in French) | |
| Omnis | |||
| The Man of Bronze | L'homme de bronze | The man of bronze | |
| The Land of Terror | Le pays de l'épouvante | The land of terror | |
| Quest of the Spider | A la poursuite de l'araignée | Chasing the spider (first translation in French) | |
| The Polar Treasure | Le trésor polaire | The polar treasure | |
| Pirate of the Pacific | Le pirate du Pacifique | The pirate of the Pacific | |
| The Red Skull | Le crâne rouge | The red skull | |
| The Lost Oasis | L'oasis perdue | The lost oasis | |
| The Sargasso Ogre | L'ogre des Sargasses | The Sargasso ogre | |
| The Czar of Fear | Le Czar de la peur | The Czar of fear (new translation of title) | |
| The Phantom City | La cité fantôme | The ghost/phantom city | |
| Brand of the Werewolf | La marque de la bête | The brand of the beast | |
| The Man Who Shook the Earth | L'homme qui ébranla la terre | The man who shook the Earth | |
| Special series | |||
| Bleeding Sun | Le soleil sanglant | The bleeding sun | |
Special Thanks to Catherine Lavallée-Welch for this page and all the work it took to translate the titles in English. Merci! For a lot more on the French version of Doc Savage stop by her wonderful web site. | |||
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