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,...
What is fan fiction
Well, the only currently published Doc Savage fanzine we know of today is: The Bronze Gazette — 1990 to today
The possibility of a lost Doc Savage novel is a tantalizing one. Yet it is a real one. In a December 1948 letter to Daisy Bacon, the final editor of Doc Savage Magazine, Lester Dent wrote that rather than writing an outline or complete novel and then...
Writer Mark Eidemiller says of his story: “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 the novel here. (Update: Mark writes that this novel is now the first in the “Bronze Saga” trilogy July 22, 2003)
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Darryl A. Elliott wrote “Likewise, Dafydd Neal Dyar was writing fan fiction when Bantam caught up with him, and so his story THE CLOCKWORK MAN in Ostara # 2 (Spring 1978) had to suddenly become the epic battle between “Doc Wildman” and his greatest foe, “Johnny Daylight”.
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Darryl A. Elliott wrote “And as Joel DiGiacimo mentioned, Shelby Peck was writing stories in Savage Society of Bronze. Unfortunately, after the first two (UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN and STONES OF DEATH), Bantam took notice, and so in the third story, THE WIZARD ON GALLOWS HILL, Peck was forced to change the names. Doc became “Doc King”, Monk became “Midge”, Ham became “Beau” (as in Beau Brummel), and Long Tom & Johnny were combined into one character, “Long John”.”
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The novella Stones of Death was published over two issues of Savage Society of Bronze (December 1982 and March 1983). When a mysterious curse turns Barnstable Ferns’s kidney into deadly, knife-like “stones,” Doc Savage and his rugged band of allies must unravel a twenty-year-old tontine, unmask a...
Darryl A. Elliott wrote “DOC, THE EARLY YEARS by Bill Laidlaw (a continuing series) was published in Doc Savage Quarterly # 2-10 and Shadow-Doc Savage Quest # 11-16, 1979-85.”
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Doc and his friends travel to Moldania to help the lovely Countess Aldea try and discover the secret of the mysterious men being found with their throats torn out! Never have Doc and his men faced greater danger — and the gravest danger of all may be to DOC!
Read Death’s Domain a Doc Savage novel by Paty Cockrum.
Fresh from the battle torn skies of Europe Doc is confronted with a terrifying new mystery. What is this strange malady that strikes men down and rots the flesh from their bones? The mystery begins in New York but quickly moves to the fetid marshes of Louisiana. Doc and his amazing men battle a cruel gang in their quest for the secret of the Hand of Death.
The Hand of Death, a Doc Savage novel by Tom Barnett
Renny had seen a same thing in the Great War, and knew instantly that the patrolman was correct. This man had been killed by poison gas. Not on a battlefield in a far-off place overseas, but in the heart of a major American city in broad daylight!
a Doc Savage novel by Dave Taggart
