Author: Chuck Welch

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Valley of the Vanished

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...

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Ron Hill’s Doc Savage Covers

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…

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Doc Savage

Doctor Clark Savage, Jr. led the crew. This looked like the head and shoulders of a man, sculptured in hard bronze. It was a startling sight, that bronze bust. The lines of the features, the unusually high forehead, the mobile and muscular, but not too-full mouth, the...

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Monk

Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett “Monk” Mayfair was an industrial chemist. His nickname was a result of his ape-like build. “Monk’s looks were deceiving. His low forehead apparently didn’t contain room for a spoonful of brains. Actually, Monk was in a way of being the most widely known...

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Pat

Patricia Savage was the daughter of Doc’s uncle, Alex Savage. She moved from Canadato New York City in 1934 and appeared in 39 pulp novels over the next 14 years. “The young woman was tall, of slender but almost regal proportions. Her most striking feature was her...

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Long Tom

Major Thomas J. “Long Tom” Roberts was an electrical engineer. Long Tom was the physical weakling of the crowd, thin, not very tall, and with a none-too-healthy-appearing skin. He was a wizard with electricity. Long Tom wasn’t as unhealthy as he looked. None of the others could...