(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