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(aka Clark Savage Jr )


Doc Savage Magazine featured the incredible adventures of Clark "Doc" Savage Jr., known by many as the "Man of Bronze". Armed with a superhuman intellect, scientific prowess and an awesome strength in his giant frame, Doc Savage had dedicated his life at an early age to thwart the foes of truth and justice. The 186 issues of Doc Savage Magazine recounted the world-shaking exploits of Doc and his daring five helpers ranged from straightforward adventure, to far-out science-fantasy, to war-time spy stories.

Trained and raised by some of the worlds foremost scientists, Doc Savage was a true renaissance figure, proficient or excelling in nearly every field of athleticism, science and invention. His own nickname of "Doc" was bestowed as a result of being one of the world's most distinguished and skilled neurosurgeons, in addition to all his other noted scientific accomplishments. The "Man of Bronze" epithet was made in reference to the bronze hue of his giant, deeply tanned and muscular figure, as well as his uncannily hypnotic gold-bronze coloured eyes. His five helpers--who were best known by their nicknames Ham, Monk, Renny, Long Tom and Johnny--were no slouches either, each being an expert in such diverse fields as industrial-chemistry, engineering, law, geology, archeology, and electricity, but with all bowing to Doc's vast expertise in each of these areas. Occasionally tagging along with this "famous five" was Doc's tomboyish and beautiful cousin Patricia "Pat" Savage, who was worth more than her own weight in wildcats to this team when trouble came her way.

A gadgeteering hero, Doc Savage and his pals were loaded with exotic devices, vehicles and equipment. This included special rapid-fire machine pistols that fired narcotic "mercy bullets" (for Doc never knowingly took a human life), giant zeppelins, ultra-violet tracking powders, true gyrocoptors, miniature radios, tiny knock-out grenades, underwater breathing tablets, and much, much more. He made his headquarters the entire top floor of the worlds tallest skyscraper, where folks in distress and villains wanting to take out their only threat could often find him. This was connected by a secret elevator to an elaborate waterfront shipyard and aircraft hanger which Doc Savage also owned. Doc also had a more secluded scientific base to which he occasionally retreated, his "Fortress of Solitude", hidden high up in the Canadian arctic.

With an immense wealth obtained in his very first adventure, "The Man of Bronze", Doc Savage was an aggressive philanthropist, not only building hospitals, schools, and performing surgical operations for the needy, but also going to great lengths in trying to rid the world of powerful evil doers. He also operated a secret "Crime College" in upstate New York state, where the criminals he caught underwent a delicate brain operation to have them forget the memory of their crooked ways, and then trained in some useful vocation before being released as a productive member of society. Nearly all the Doc Savage stories were written by Lester Dent, an incredibly inventive pulpster who was somewhat of a Doc Savage himself, being simultaneously an inventor, ocean sailor, treasure-hunter, ham-radio operator, and aviator.

Example titles:

The Man of Bronze, The Land of Terror, Brand of the Werewolf, The Sargasso Ogre, The Phantom Oasis, The Giggling Ghosts, Murder Melody, Meteor Menace, The Dust of Death.

Other Doc Savage Web Pages:

Chris Kalb's fantastic site,The 86th Floor
http://members.netvalue.net/robsmalley/page1.htm
http://users.aol.com/jsines233/private/pulpscan.htm
Fanzines of Bronze

Links to Doc Savage Stories:

Doc Savage PDFs


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#8 Mar. 1989:

156) The Mental Monster
157) The Pink Lady
158) Weird Valley
159) Trouble on Parade

#9 July 1989:

160) The Invisible-Box Murders
161) Birds of Death
162) The Wee Ones
163) Terror Takes 7

#10 Nov. 1989:

164) The Devil's Black Rock
165) Waves of Death
166) Terror and the Lonely Widow
167) The Two-Wise Owl

#11 Feb. 1990:

168) See-Pah-Poo
169) Colors For Murder
170) Three Times a Corpse
171) Death is a Round Black Spot
172) The Devil is Jones #12 June 1990:

173) Bequest of Evil
174) Death in Little Houses
175) Target for Death
176) The Death Lady
177) The Exploding Lake

#13 Oct. 1990:

178) The Derelict of Skull Shoal
179) Terror Wears No Shoes
180) The Green Master
181) Return From Cormoral
182) Up From Earth's Center

Not in magazines:

95) July 1979 The Red Spider
183) Aug. 1991 Escape from Loki
184) Oct. 1991 Python Isle
185) Mar. 1992 White Eyes
186) July 1992 The Frightened Fish
187) Oct. 1992 The Jade Ogre
188) Mar. 1993 Flight Into Fear
189) July 1993 The Whistling Wraith
190) Nov. 1993 The Forgotten Realm

Planned but unpublished:

191) The Infernal Buddha
192) Phantom Lagoon
193) The War Maker
194) The Ice Genius
195) The Smoking Spooks
196) The Nullifier
197) Grotto of Spiders
198) Terror in Gold

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