Hidalgo Trading Company

What is the Hidalgo Trading Company? In the Doc Savage novels it was the name of an imaginary concern. A warehouse on a pier in the Hudson River Harbor. The home of many of Doc's autogyros, submarines, and other wonderful modes of transportation.

In September 1996 the Hidalgo Trading Company opened on the Internet. From the beginning I wanted one thing for the HTC: fan participation. In the past six years we've had fan artwork, articles, and fiction. We sponsored the first complete Doc Savage fan novel on the Internet: Bleeding Sun. We also had a hand in the creation of that shananigan.

A few months after opening the HTC I met a French speaking Doc Savage fan -- Catherine. When we married she moved her Doc Savage website, L'homme de Bronze under the HTC banner.

Our next addition to the HTC wasn't a website. We were fed up with all the spam we had to wade through on the Doc Savage discussion group. We could have followed many Doc fans and dropped the newsgroup. Instead we started the Flearun -- a spam and flame free newsgroup for Doc fans.

On the HTC's fifth aniversary (Sep. 2001) I wanted a permanent home for the HTC. It was about the time the .INFO domain opened. What better place for information about Doc Savage than DocSavage.Info? In April 2002 DocSavage.Org was made available. I added that domain and started building an online Doc Savage Encyclopedia.

During all the growth of the HTC there has been a single constant: reader participation. This is especially true today. Every page of DocSavage.Info and DocSavage.Org is coded to easily allow fans to add their thoughts.

We encourage you to wander through the many pages of DSI, DSO, and L'homme de Bronze. Don't forget to add your voice to the many Doc fans before you.

Authors often give a title to their work as it is written. The publisher may or may not use the author's title. The author's suggestion is the "working title." And for the publisher -- sometimes it just doesn't "work." He believes he has the pulse of the consumer -- not the finicky author.

That's true even of the Doc Savage novels. Fan favorite Brand of the Werewolf was originally titled The Crew of Skeletons. It's a toss-up which title sounds better. The Crew of Skeletons evokes a stronger image for this writer. However, I have to agree with the decision to go with The Laugh of Death instead of the working title Death Laughed and Laughed. I'm sure the editors thought World Fair's Goblin would sell better than Goblin! Goblin!

Will Murray used the title Flight into Fear for his Doc Savage novel. The title wasn't unfamiliar to the editors at Doc Savage Magazine. It was the alternate title offered for two novels: King Joe Cay and Terror and the Lonely Widow.

Below we're offering a match puzzle for Doc fans. On the left are the titles you've memorized from repeated readings of the novels. On the right are working titles. How many can you match? We've given four answers. For a list of the answers write us at: answers@docsavage.info

1 - The Land of Terror 	(a) - Cavu is Dead 
2 -  Brand of the Werewolf 	(b) - Death Came Solo 
3 -  The Annihilist 		(c) - Death in a Flash 
4 -  The Majii 		(d) - Death in the Book 
5 -  The South Pole Terror 	(e) - Death Laughed and Laughed 
6 -  The Sea Angel 		(f) - Death Wore a Golden Bell 
7 -  The Submarine Mystery 	(g) - Deuces Wild 
8 -  The Red Terrors 		(h) - Devil Takes the Last 
9 -  The Yellow Cloud		(i) - Flight into Fear 
10 -  World's Fair Goblin 	(j) - Flight into Fear 
11 -  The Evil Gnome 		(k) - Genie 
12 -  The Golden Man 		(l) - Goblin! Goblin!, Man of Tomorrow 
13 -  Mystery Island 		(m) - He Was So Scared 
14 -  Birds of Death 		(n) - His Majesty, King Terror 
15 -  The Invisible-Box Murders 	(o) - In Hell, Madonna
16 -  Peril in the North 	(p) - Jonah Had a Whale 
17 -  Men of Fear 		(q) - Jungle Strange 
18 -  The Fiery Menace 	(r) - Man Afraid
19 -  The Laugh of Death 	(s) - Miracle by Williams 
20 -  Waves of Death 		(t) - Mr. Calamity 
21 -  The King of Terror 	(u) - Mystery at Parade 
22 -  The Talking Devil 	(v) - Sea Snare 
23 -  The Secret of the Su 	(w) - Skull Cay 
24 -  The Derelict of Skull Shoal 	(x) - The Buccaneer 
25 -  The Man Who Was Scared 	(y) - The Crew of Skeletons 
26 -  The Red Spider 		(z) - Three Dead Danes 
27 -  Strange Fist 		(aa) - The Devilish Mr. Wail 
28 -  The Ten Ton Snakes 	(bb) - The Fish Was Strange 
29 -  Cargo Unknown 		(cc) - The Green Cloud 
30 -  Rock Sinister 		(dd) - The Hair on End, Chemistry of Death
31 -  King Joe Cay 		(ee) - The Ice Age
32 -  The Thing That Pursued 	(ff) - The Invisible Box 
33 -  Trouble on Parade 	(gg) - The Jiu San Man 
34 -  Measures For a Coffin 	(hh) - The Lost Ones 
35 -  Se-Pah-Poo 		(ii) - The Lost Vampire 
36 -  Five Fathoms Dead 	(jj) - The Mountain of Terror 
37 -  Colors for Murder 	(kk) - The Phantom Submarine 
38 -  Fire and Ice 		(ll) - The Speaking Satan 
39 -  Three Times a Corpse 	(mm) - The Sun Terror 
40 -  The Exploding Lake	(nn) - The Terrible Jones
41 -  The Devil is Jones 	(oo) - The Terror Under the Sea 
42 -  Danger Lies East 	(pp) - The Wizard 
43 -  The Pure Evil 		(qq) - They Stood Dead 
44 -  Return From Cormoral 	(rr) - thirty Fathoms to Hell 
45 -  Up From Earth's Center 	(ss) - Those Golden Birds 
46 -  Death is a Round Black Spot 	(tt) - The One-Eyed Mystic
47 -  Terror and the Lonely Widow 	(uu) - The Man Nobody Could See
48 -  According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic 	(vv) - Skull Shoal
49 -  Jiu San 		(ww) - The Crime Annihilist, The Crime Annihilator