“We have a script, but part of it, I love Doc Savage and I think we have a good script. It’s very expensive. And the thing about Doc Savage, I mean, if you ask your viewers, because I know it, do kids today know it? Are people...
A Criss Cross was a phone directory that allowed you to look up a phone number and find the name and address. The Doc Savage Publication Criss Cross allows you to quickly find the magazine year and month, Bantam number, and Sanctum number for every pulp issue of Doc Savage Magazine.
Doc Savage fans understand that Doc’s career really took a turn when his father stumbled on the Valley of the Vanished… “As you all know,” he said at last, “only recently did we learn that my father had discovered a lost city built by Mayans in the...
Back in the 90s we published a little puzzle about the working title of some 49 Doc Savage pulps. For those who don’t like puzzles…here’s the full list…
Through the work of Doc Savage fans, La Plata residents, and Dent family members, the State of Missouri is dedicating a new La Plata bridge in honor of hometown hero, Lester Dent.
In November 1996, we placed the following on the Hidalgo Trading Company’s Movie Page…
Those who have purchased all the Sanctum reprints of the pulps might want to read them in original pulp publication order. We’re happy to present you that list…
In the 1990s, artist Ron Hill imagined some Bantam covers for novels that didn’t get their own. The Hidalgo Trading Company was proud to publish the first three. (Sadly, the only three.)
With his kind permission, we’re republishing those covers…
Here’s a little Doc Savage trivia tidbit…
There’s a very simple way to find any Doc Savage novel on the Hidalgo Trading Company…
In 1944, the Lester Dent story, “Take Away the Lady” was serialized in various newspapers. Here are the links to the full story in the Florence Alabama Times…
Lester and Norma Dent are buried in La Plata, MO in the La Plata Cemetery
In 1931 Lester Dent leased Apartment 1-D in Hutchinson Gardens (224 Brookside Ave. Mount Vernon, NY). He paid $105 a month for a furnished apartment.
From the 1997 Hidalgo Trading Archives: “As a professional artist Ron has a excellent eye for what sells books. As a bonus: Ron gives his view about why Bama’s covers attracted so many fans to Doc Savage.”
The Hidalgo Trading Company is here to help you score a Doc Savage portrait. All you need to supply is a time travel device….
10 Tidbits about the 1975 film, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
There is a Pat Savage novel. Catherine Lavallée-Welch lets us know how it turned out…
