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That was how the original Hidalgo Trading Company was announced in 1996.

The original goal of the HTC was to bring together the opinions of fans who didn’t want to create their own site. As everyone began to build websites HTC morphed into: docsavage.info to showcase an idiosyncratic look at Doc and docsavage.org, the net’s first attempt at a Doc Savage encyclopedia.

DocSavage.info was created first. It included all-new art and articles about Doc Savage. DocSavage,org was constructed as a Doc Savage encyclopedia. It also gave Doc fans a place to post their thoughts about each novel.

A hosting problem and everything was pushed offline. A lot of it was lost. I eventually recreated much from the two sites here at DocSavage.org.

On March 11, 2018, I revealed a new look for the HTC. Articles old and new are mixed with links to every Doc Savage novel. We’re including small biographies of the authors, editors, publishers, pulp illustrators, and post-pulp artists that brought Doc Savage to the fans.

Over the coming months, I hope to add, or re-discover, articles on Doc and the multitudes who contributed to his long life.

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Update September 30, 2025: Here we are at it again. A new redesign and a melding of sites. A couple of years ago, the site was hacked it and I pushed a hurried redesign. I never really loved it, so I decided to use this opportunity to redesign yet again. I am bringing all my Doc Savage work under one roof. In addition to all the Doc Savage articles, shenanigans, and lists, you’ll find all things Bronze Gazette here. In the past few months, I’ve played at BlueSky, so I’ll move all my Doc Savage tidbits and promotions to HTC at BSky. I’m also going to bring back the blog aspect with the return of a column yet to be named. I expect few readers, but what-the-hell-why-not?

Enjoy,
Chuck Welch