Today we’re celebrating something wonderful about the Doc Savage universe: the fact that “Kenneth Robeson” was never just one person. He was a whole creative ecosystem. He was a team of imaginations working in sync. Three men (at first) contributing to create and shape Doc Savage. Publisher...
Ninety-three years ago today, Lester Dent started writing The Man of Bronze, his first Doc Savage novel for Street & Smith. He mentioned the day in his foreword to No Light to Die By:
Happy Doc Savage Day! Here’s to daring rescues, ingenious gadgets, and a crew you’d trust on any wild adventure. What’s your favorite Doc moment, cover, or aide, and why?
There are some questions regarding the cover artists for these Doc Savage pulp covers. What are your thoughts? I’ve groups the covers in question by who I propose was the actual cover artist.In a couple of cases, I haven’t hazarded a guess on the artist’s name. Modest...
What happens when you trap a legacy, an identity crisis, and a faulty voice assistant in a high-rise elevator that technically shouldn’t exist? You get Doc Savage III and the Hidden Elevator, a pulp-inspired, lo-fi sci-fi short film created as part of the AI Tampa 24 Hour...
Now at auction is James Bama’s cover for The Spook Legion (#16/’67). Displaying the Man of Bronze as he fades from sight. It is a masterclass in Bantam’s Doc Savage reinvention complete with ripped shirt, ripped physique, and widow’s peak. Oil on board, 12.75″ x 20″ Auction...
“The problem is that the IP is not a household name. It’s much easier to fund something at that level of expense if it has Batman or Superman attached, as opposed to something that is going to be just as expensive and is less of a household...
A Criss Cross was a phone directory that allowed you to look up a phone number and find the name and address. The Doc Savage Publication Criss Cross allows you to quickly find the magazine year and month, Bantam number, and Sanctum number for every pulp issue of Doc Savage Magazine.
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...
