Author: Chuck Welch

Renny

Colonel John “Renny” Renwick was a construction engineer. The first of the five men was a giant who towered four inches over six feet. He weighed fully two fifty. His face was severe, his mouth thin and grim, and compressed tightly, as though he had just finished...

Ham

Brigadier General Theodore Marley “Ham” Brooks was an accomplished attorney. Like Monk, Ham was present in the majority of novels. “Ham was designated on formal occasions. Slender, waspy, quick-moving, Ham looked what he was – a quick thinker and possibly the most astute lawyer Harvard ever turned...

Johnny

William Harper “Johnny” Littlejohn was an archaeologist and geologist. Very tall, very gaunt Johnny wore glasses with a peculiarly thick lens over the left eye. He looked like a half-starved, studious scientist. He was probably one of the greatest living experts on geology and archaeology. — The...

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Stanley Meltzoff

Stanley Meltzoff (March 27, 1917 to November 9, 2006) was best known for marine paintings. James Nobel suggested that Meltzoff painted the cover of The Lost Oasis. Though The Lost Oasis cover is usually credited to Doug Rosa, Nobel saw Meltzoff’s distinctive signature on the differently cropped...

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Sanctum Books

Sanctum Books republished all the pulp-era Doc Savage titles — including The Red Spider. (The novel was shelved in 1948 and printed in 1975 by Bantam Books.) The Sanctum editions were usually two novels per volume and included original pulp artwork. (Unlike the Bantam reprints.) The Sanctum books also often include articles by Will Murray and occasionally material that had been removed from the original manuscript by the pulp editor. The covers usually utilize the original pulp art, but some issues were published with variant Bantam covers.

Altus Press

In association with author Will Murray, Altus Press (founded by Matt Moring) published a series of new Doc Savage novels from 2011 to 2018. Collected under the tag line “The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage” the novels use combinations of unused pulp era outlines, text, and (primarily)...

Bantam Books

Bantam Books reprinted the Doc Savage pulps from 1964 through 1990. Bantam was the first publisher of the pulp-era novel The Red Spider, which had been shelved by Street and Smith. The company then published new titles by Philip José Farmer (Escape from Loki) and Will Murray...

Street and Smith

Founded in 1855 by Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith in New York City, Street & Smith began with a focus on dime novels and serialized weekly stories. In the 1920s and 1930s the company evolved into one of the most prolific publishers of pulp magazines,...

George Rozen

George Jerome Rozen (1895-1973) was the twin brother of Jerome George Rozen. Both worked as pulp artists and George actually replaced Jerome as the primary Shadow cover artist. George was the last Doc Savage pulp cover artist with his paintings for The Green Master, Return From Cormoral,...

John L. Nanovic

Credited with co-creating Doc Savage, John Leonard Nanovic (October 7, 1906 – February 9, 2001) was the magazine’s first editor.

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Mr. Calamity

Prospecting in the Wyoming badlands, Patricia Savage spies a man swimming in circles—high in a cloudless sky! After he falls to his death, the dead swimmer is discovered soaked to the skin. Who is he? How did he manage to swim through thin air?
These are the questions Pat sets out to answer when her cousin, the famous scientist-adventurer Doc Savage, diagnoses her account as a hallucination caused by altitude sickness. But when the bronze-skinned girl vanishes, the Man of Bronze is forced to take action… (Includes the bonus Doc Savage short… The Valley of Eternity)