Author: Chuck Welch

From the snow-shrouded reaches of the North Pole comes a being in glittering blue who turns men to ice with a single touch. After a vicious gang gets hold of the secret, a trail of frozen corpses leads the mighty man of bronze on a perilous quest beneath the earth for the answer to the mystery behind an ancient lost race’s desperate battle for survival and a fortune in sapphires.
The Polar Terror, a Doc Savage novel by Howard Hopkins

The burning destruction of a small Midwest town and a dying man’s words sends Doc Savage and his men to investigate the activities of the deadly spymaster, HARBINGER, and his ‘Horsemen of the Apocalypse’. Can the Man of Bronze stop this fiendish menace before it brings more death and destruction?
The Man Who Ruled the Sun, a Doc Savage novel by Lance Curry

Men who turn to stone is the stuff of mythology. There is simply no room for a medusa in the scientific world of 1940. Then a mysterious summons leads Doc Savage to once living men turned to stone! The Man of Bronze and his fearless crew pursue the Medusa …until the “Stone Death” is turned on Doc Savage himself! Can even he survive its awesome power?

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?
Read the origin story of the Bleeding Sun.

Gary Chaloner created this portrait of Doc Savage exclusively for Doc fan Steve Sherman. Well, the original is exclusive. They’ve generously allowed us to post a scan here.