Doc Savage fans are a particular lot.
Some have read the novels in the order they were published by Bantam. Some insist a better method is to read them in the order they were originally published. The latest “best order” is to read the novels in the order they were “submitted to Street and Smith.” Guess who has that order for you?
Most Doc fans know the force behind Kenneth Robeson was Lester Dent. Mr. Dent didn’t write every Doc story, but he could have. The man was a Writing Machine. He had a secret to writing so quickly, a secret he shares with us.
Doc Savage made it to the radio three times: 1934-35, 1943, and 1985. Inside is a list of the episodes culled from numerous sources….
The text below was written on the sixth anniversary of the Hidalgo Trading Company, the site I started in September 1996. It’s now almost 13 years of running a Doc Savage site. Some years were lean as Catherine and I spent more time raising the next generation...
On the back of every Bantam published reprint of the Doc Savage novels were a few lines that answered the question, “Who is Doc Savage?” To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing...
James Bama is responsible for the image that many Bantam era Man of Bronze fans have when they think “Doc Savage.”
A easy to print list of all Doc novels by Bantam publication date.
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?
Second novel in the “Bronze Saga Trilogy.” Writer Mark Eidemiller says of the first novel Bronze Refind as Silver: “This is a story about Doc Savage. There may be die-hard fans of Doc who will view this story as sacreligious. But what I am striving for in this story is to set the character of Doc Savage in a direction he has never gone in before, an adventure that reaches beyond the physical and temporal. If this doesn’t appeal to you, stop reading here. I make no apologies for the concept of what I write.”
You can find More Precious than Gold here.
If you have any information on this novel please write me at fanfic@docsavage.org
Unlike Doug Rosa, much is known about Mort Kunstler. His career as a historical painter made his name. Kunstler painted only a single Doc Savage cover for Bantam…
In 1976, (Len) Leone kept his word with several paperback assignments for (Bob) Larkin. By that time, Larkin’s career was in full swing. His art had graced the covers of other paperback companies, comic covers, movie posters, advertising, and more. That year, Larkin’s dream assignment opened when...
Fred Pfeiffer took over the Bantam Doc Savage covers after James Bama left. He painted 13 covers from #68 (Quest of the Spider) through #81 (The Stone Man). The cover for The South Pole Terror was reused for The Stone Man.
Daisy Bacon edited the final three pulp Doc Savage novels. You can find more information on this important Street and Smith editor at Laurie’s Wild West. Her New York Time obituary read: “Daisy Bacon, a writer and for many years editor of the now-defunct Love Story magazine,...
