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.
