Comics character
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Doc Savage Magazine, March 1933, "The Man of Bronze", illustrated by Walter M. Baumhofer. |
This is a comprehensive list of the books written about the fictional character Doc Savage originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic at Street & Smith Publications, with additional material contributed by the series' main writer, Lester Dent. The illustrations were by Walter Baumhofer, Paul Orban, Emery Clarke, Modest Stein, and Robert G. Harris.
Description
Doc Savage stories, 213 in total, first appeared in Conde Nast's Doc Savage Magazine pulps. The original series has sold over 20 million copies in paperback form. The first entry was The Man of Bronze, in March, 1933 from the house name "Kenneth Robeson". John L. Nanovic was editor for 10 years, and planned and approved all story outlines. The early stories were pure pulp "supersagas", as dubbed by Philip José Farmer, with rampaging dinosaurs and lost races, secret societies led by dastardly villains, fantastic gadgets and weapons, autogyros and zeppelins, death-dealing traps and hair-raising escapes, and plots to rule the earth. In the first few stories, Doc and his aides killed enemies without compunction. An editorial decision made them kill only when necessary for a more adventurous kid-friendly magazine, unlike the bloodthirsty competitor The Shadow.
Doc Savage was the lead story, often illustrated with line drawings. Exciting covers were painted in bold colors by Walter M. Baumhofer. Other adventure stories filled up the back, and there was a letters column. Kids could join the Doc Savage Club complete with badge, or follow "The Doc Savage Method Of Self-development" to build muscle and memory. In Depression America, 10-cent pulps with hundred of pages were handed around barracks or bunkhouses or schoolyards, a popular form of entertainment when people were unemployed and poor, and fantastic stories were a pleasant diversion from real life. Lester Dent wrote most of the stories, with fill-ins by Harold A. Davis, Alan Hathway, and William Bogart that were overseen or rewritten by Dent.
By 1938, as the economy improved, pulps were on the wane and faced competition from comic books. During World War II, ordinary men and women performed fantastic deeds daily in exotic corners of the world, and fantastic pulp adventures seemed childish. Charles Moran became editor in 1943 and changed the format to suspense and realism. Doc used fewer gadgets and standard detective tropes. By 1946, in Measures for a Coffin, Doc is busting crooked investment bankers. Doc pared down his team, working mainly with Monk and Ham, and sometimes alone. Successive editors carried this format, and Babette Rosmond retitled the magazine Doc Savage, Science Detective in 1947.
By this time, the Doc stories were shorter than other stories in the magazine. Covers rarely showed Doc anymore, becoming detective-generic, abstract or illustrating non-Doc stories. Dent may have recycled some generic detective stories as Doc tales; King Joe Cay features Doc working alone, in disguise, with no aides, gadgets, or headquarters, and an interest in the ladies. Alan Hathway's grisly The Mindless Monsters reads like a rejected Spider story. Experimenting with new formats, during 1947 Dent wrote five stories with a first-person narrator, an innocent person caught up in a Doc Savage adventure, with one story narrated by Pat Savage, I Died Yesterday. Still, sales fell.
The magazine went bi-monthly in 1947, then quarterly in 1949. Editor William de Grouchy was brought back to revive the magazine, and asked Dent to return to larger-than-life stories. Dent took a new direction, with Doc infiltrating Russia and outwitting "the Ivans". This story, eventually titled The Red Spider in the Bantam run, was killed and shelved by editor Daisy Bacon. She oversaw three pulp-style adventures for the last three issues, but the magazine was cancelled in 1949. In the last story, Up from Earth's Center, Doc delves into a cave in Maine and meets what may be actual demons, and runs screaming in terror. The saga had ended.
Until 1964, when Bantam Books revived the pulps as paperbacks. A huge selling point were the striking photo-realistic covers of a vibrant, widow-peaked, shredded-shirted Doc painted by James Bama and later Bob Larkin, Boris Vallejo, and others. Bantam reprinted all the stories, concluding in 1990, but not in the original publication order, and a few stories were retitled. They started as single volumes with numbers. As the stories got shorter, Bantam combined double novels with numbers, and finally Doc Savage Omnibuses with four or five stories without numbers. The rejected The Red Spider manuscript was discovered in 1975 by Will Murray and published during the Bantam Books print run as #95.
In recent years, Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books, initially in association with Nostalgia Ventures for the first 16 releases, has reprinted all 182 (including the initially unpublished The Red Spider) of the Doc Savage stories from the thirties and forties, usually at least two to a volume, using Baumhofer covers, and some Bama covers for variant editions. The reprint project, 87 volumes in total, was completed in 2016.
Doc Savage Magazine (1933)
Year | Month | Title / Bantam Retitle | Series # | Author | Cover Artist | Cast |
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1933 | Mar | The Man of Bronze | 1 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1933 | Apr | The Land of Terror | 2 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1933 | May | Quest of the Spider | 3 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1933 | Jun | The Polar Treasure | 4 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1933 | Jul | Pirate of the Pacific | 5 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1933 | Aug | The Red Skull | 6 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1933 | Sep | The Lost Oasis | 7 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1933 | Oct | The Sargasso Ogre | 8 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1933 | Nov | The Czar of Fear | 9 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1933 | Dec | The Phantom City | 10 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1934 | Jan | Brand of the Werewolf | 11 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1934 | Feb | The Man Who Shook the Earth | 12 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1934 | Mar | Meteor Menace | 13 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1934 | Apr | The Monsters | 14 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1934 | May | The Mystery on the Snow | 15 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1934 | Jun | The King Maker | 16 | Lester Dent / Harold A. Davis | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1934 | Jul | The Thousand-Headed Man | 17 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1934 | Aug | The Squeaking Goblin | 18 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1934 | Sep | Fear Cay | 19 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1934 | Oct | Death in Silver | 20 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Pat |
1934 | Nov | The Sea Magician | 21 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny |
1934 | Dec | The Annihilist | 22 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Pat |
1935 | Jan | The Mystic Mullah | 23 | Lester Dent / Richard Sale | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1935 | Feb | Red Snow | 24 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Pat (phone call) |
1935 | Mar | Land of Always-Night | 25 | Lester Dent / W. Ryerson Johnson | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1935 | Apr | The Spook Legion | 26 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1935 | May | The Secret in the Sky | 27 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1935 | Jun | The Roar Devil | 28 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny |
1935 | Jul | Quest of Qui | 29 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny |
1935 | Aug | Spook Hole | 30 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny, (Long Tom,) Pat |
1935 | Sep | The Majii | 31 | Lester Dent / J. Allan Dunn | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom |
1935 | Oct | Dust of Death | 32 | Lester Dent / Harold A. Davis | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom |
1935 | Nov | Murder Melody | 33 | Lawrence Donovan | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1935 | Dec | The Fantastic Island | 34 | Lester Dent / W. Ryerson Johnson | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1936 | Jan | Murder Mirage | 35 | Lawrence Donovan | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1936 | Feb | Mystery Under the Sea | 36 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny |
1936 | Mar | The Metal Master | 37 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Renny, Long Tom) |
1936 | Apr | The Men Who Smiled No More | 38 | Lawrence Donovan | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1936 | May | The Seven Agate Devils | 39 | Lester Dent / Martin E. Baker | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1936 | Jun | Haunted Ocean | 40 | Lawrence Donovan | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1936 | Jul | The Black Spot | 41 | Lawrence Donovan | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1936 | Aug | The Midas Man | 42 | Lester Dent | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny |
1936 | Sep | Cold Death | 43 | Lawrence Donovan | Walter M. Baumhofer | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Long Tom |
1936 | Oct | The South Pole Terror | 44 | Lester Dent | John Philip Falter | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1936 | Nov | Resurrection Day | 45 | Lester Dent | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1936 | Dec | The Vanisher | 46 | Lester Dent | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1937 | Jan | Land of Long Juju / Land of Long Ju Ju | 47 | Lawrence Donovan | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Renny,) Johnny, Pat |
1937 | Feb | The Derrick Devil | 48 | Lester Dent | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1937 | Mar | The Mental Wizard | 49 | Lester Dent | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1937 | Apr | The Terror in the Navy | 50 | Lester Dent | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1937 | May | Mad Eyes | 51 | Lawrence Donovan | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1937 | Jun | The Land of Fear | 52 | Lester Dent / Harold A. Davis | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1937 | Jul | He Could Stop The World | 53 | Lawrence Donovan | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1937 | Aug | Ost / The Magic Island | 54 | Lester Dent | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1937 | Sep | The Feathered Octopus | 55 | Lester Dent | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Renny, Johnny, Long Tom,) Pat |
1937 | Oct | Repel / The Deadly Dwarf | 56 | Lester Dent | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Renny, Johnny, Long Tom) |
1937 | Nov | The Sea Angel | 57 | Lester Dent | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1937 | Dec | The Golden Peril | 58 | Lester Dent / Harold A. Davis | Robert George Harris | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Renny, Johnny,) Long Tom |
1938 | Jan | The Living-fire Menace / The Living Fire Menace | 59 | Lester Dent / Harold A. Davis | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1938 | Feb | The Mountain Monster | 60 | Lester Dent / Harold A. Davis | Harold Winfield Scott | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom |
1938 | Mar | Devil on the Moon | 61 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1938 | Apr | The Pirate's Ghost | 62 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1938 | May | The Motion Menace | 63 | Lester Dent / W. Ryerson Johnson | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom |
1938 | Jun | The Submarine Mystery | 64 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1938 | Jul | The Giggling Ghosts | 65 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1938 | Aug | The Munitions Master | 66 | Harold A. Davis | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom |
1938 | Sep | The Red Terrors | 67 | Harold A. Davis | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1938 | Oct | Fortress of Solitude | 68 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom |
1938 | Nov | The Green Death | 69 | Harold A. Davis | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny |
1938 | Dec | The Devil Genghis | 70 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Renny, Johnny) |
1939 | Jan | Mad Mesa | 71 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1939 | Feb | The Yellow Cloud | 72 | Lester Dent / Evelyn Coulson | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Long Tom, Pat |
1939 | Mar | The Freckled Shark | 73 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny |
1939 | Apr | World's Fair Goblin | 74 | Lester Dent / William G. Bogart | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom, Pat |
1939 | May | The Gold Ogre | 75 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1939 | Jun | The Flaming Falcons | 76 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1939 | Jul | Merchants of Disaster | 77 | Harold A. Davis | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, (Johnny, Long Tom) |
1939 | Aug | The Crimson Serpent | 78 | Harold A. Davis | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Renny) |
1939 | Sep | Poison Island | 79 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Pat |
1939 | Oct | The Stone Man | 80 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Long Tom |
1939 | Nov | Hex | 81 | Lester Dent / William G. Bogart | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Renny,) Johnny, Pat |
1939 | Dec | The Dagger in the Sky | 82 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1940 | Jan | The Other World | 83 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1940 | Feb | The Angry Ghost | 84 | Lester Dent / William G. Bogart | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1940 | Mar | The Spotted Men | 85 | Lester Dent / William G. Bogart | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, (Johnny, Long Tom,) Pat |
1940 | Apr | The Evil Gnome | 86 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, (Johnny) |
1940 | May | The Boss of Terror | 87 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom |
1940 | Jun | The Awful Egg | 88 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, (Johnny,) Long Tom |
1940 | Jul | The Flying Goblin | 89 | William G. Bogart | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Renny, Johnny,) Long Tom |
1940 | Aug | Tunnel Terror | 90 | William G. Bogart | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny |
1940 | Sep | The Purple Dragon | 91 | Lester Dent / Harold A. Davis | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny |
1940 | Oct | Devils of the Deep | 92 | Harold A. Davis | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, (Johnny,) Long Tom |
1940 | Nov | The Awful Dynasty | 93 | William G. Bogart | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, (Johnny,) Long Tom, Pat |
1940 | Dec | The Men Vanished | 94 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny, Pat |
1941 | Jan | The Devil's Playground | 95 | Alan Hathway | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1941 | Feb | Bequest of Evil | 96 | William G. Bogart | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Long Tom |
1941 | Mar | The All-White Elf | 97 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny |
1941 | Apr | The Golden Man | 98 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, (Monk, Ham,) Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1941 | May | The Pink Lady | 99 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1941 | Jun | The Headless Men | 100 | Alan Hathway | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Long Tom |
1941 | Jul | The Green Eagle | 101 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1941 | Aug | Mystery Island | 102 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1941 | Sep | The Mindless Monsters | 103 | Alan Hathway | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, (Johnny,) Long Tom |
1941 | Oct | Birds of Death | 104 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1941 | Nov | The Invisible Box Murders / The Invisible-Box Murders | 105 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1941 | Dec | Peril in the North | 106 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1942 | Jan | The Rustling Death | 107 | Alan Hathway | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1942 | Feb | Men of Fear | 108 | Lester Dent / Evelyn Coulson | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1942 | Mar | The Too-Wise Owl | 109 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1942 | Apr | The Magic Forest | 110 | Lester Dent / William G. Bogart | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, (Johnny,) Long Tom |
1942 | May | Pirate Isle | 111 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1942 | Jun | The Speaking Stone | 112 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, (Monk, Ham,) Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1942 | Jul | The Man Who Fell Up | 113 | Lester Dent | Charles deFeo | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Renny, Johnny, Long Tom,) Pat |
1942 | Aug | The Three Wild Men | 114 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1942 | Sep | The Fiery Menace | 115 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom, Pat |
1942 | Oct | The Laugh of Death | 116 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, (Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom,) Pat |
1942 | Nov | They Died Twice | 117 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1942 | Dec | The Devil's Black Rock | 118 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1943 | Jan | The Time Terror | 119 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny, Pat |
1943 | Feb | Waves of Death | 120 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1943 | Mar | The Black, Black Witch | 121 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny, Pat |
1943 | Apr | The King of Terror | 122 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1943 | May | The Talking Devil | 123 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Long Tom |
1943 | Jun | The Running Skeletons | 124 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, (Long Tom) |
1943 | Jul | Mystery on Happy Bones | 125 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny |
1943 | Aug | The Mental Monster | 126 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1943 | Sep | Hell Below | 127 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, Pat |
1943 | Oct | The Goblins | 128 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1943 | Nov | The Secret of the Su | 129 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein. | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1943 | Dec | The Spook of Grandpa Eben | 130 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Pat |
1944 | Jan | According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic / One-Eyed Mystic | 131 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny |
1944 | Feb | Death Had Yellow Eyes | 132 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny |
1944 | Mar | The Derelict of Skull Shoal | 133 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny |
1944 | Apr | The Whisker of Hercules | 134 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom |
1944 | May | The Three Devils | 135 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Johnny |
1944 | Jun | The Pharoah's Ghost / The Pharaoh's Ghost | 136 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, (Johnny,) Long Tom |
1944 | Jul | The Man Who Was Scared | 137 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1944 | Aug | The Shape of Terror | 138 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1944 | Sep | Weird Valley | 139 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1944 | Oct | Jiu San | 140 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1944 | Nov | Satan Black | 141 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny |
1944 | Dec | The Lost Giant | 142 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1945 | Jan | Violent Night / The Hate Genius | 143 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Pat |
1945 | Feb | Strange Fish | 144 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1945 | Mar | The Ten Ton Snakes | 145 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Renny |
1945 | Apr | Cargo Unknown | 146 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny |
1945 | May | Rock Sinister | 147 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1945 | Jun | The Terrible Stork | 148 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1945 | Jul | King Joe Cay | 149 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, alone |
1945 | Aug | The Wee Ones | 150 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1945 | Sep | Terror Takes 7 | 151 | Lester Dent | Modest Stein | Doc, Monk, Ham, Pat |
1945 | Oct | The Thing That Pursued | 152 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, alone |
1945 | Nov | Trouble on Parade | 153 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, alone |
1945 | Dec | The Screaming Man | 154 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny |
1946 | Jan | Measures for a Coffin | 155 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1946 | Feb | Se-Pah-Poo | 156 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1946 | Mar | Terror and the Lonely Widow | 157 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny |
1946 | Apr | Five Fathoms Dead | 158 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Ham, Renny |
1946 | May | Death is a Round Black Spot | 159 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham, Pat |
1946 | Jun | Colors for Murder | 160 | Lester Dent | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1946 | Jul | Fire and Ice | 161 | Lester Dent / William G. Bogart | Emery Clarke | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1946 | Aug | Three Times a Corpse | 162 | Lester Dent | Charles J. Ravel | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1946 | Sep | The Exploding Lake | 163 | Lester Dent / Harold A. Davis | Charles J. Ravel | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny |
1946 | Oct | Death in Little Houses | 164 | Lester Dent / William G. Bogart | Charles J. Ravel | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1946 | Nov | The Devil Is Jones | 165 | Lester Dent | Charles J. Ravel | Doc, Monk, Ham, Johnny |
1946 | Dec | The Disappearing Lady | 166 | William G. Bogart | Charles J. Ravel | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1947 | Jan | Target for Death | 167 | William G. Bogart | Walter Swenson | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny, Pat |
1947 | Feb | The Death Lady | 168 | William G. Bogart | Walter Swenson | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom |
1947 | Mar / Apr | Danger Lies East | 169 | Lester Dent | Walter Swenson | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1947 | May / Jun | No Light to Die By | 170 | Lester Dent | Walter Swenson | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1947 | Jul / Aug | The Monkey Suit | 171 | Lester Dent | Walter Swenson | Doc, Monk |
1947 | Sep / Oct | Let's Kill Ames | 172 | Lester Dent | Walter Swenson | Doc, Ham |
1947 | Nov / Dec | Once Over Lightly | 173 | Lester Dent | Walter Swenson | Doc, Monk |
1948 | Jan / Feb | I Died Yesterday | 174 | Lester Dent | Walter Swenson | Doc, Monk, Pat |
1948 | Mar / Apr | The Pure Evil | 175 | Lester Dent | Edd Cartier | Doc, Monk, Ham, Renny |
1948 | May / Jun | Terror Wears No Shoes | 176 | Lester Dent | Walter Swenson | Doc, Monk, Ham, Long Tom |
1948 | Jul / Aug | The Angry Canary | 177 | Lester Dent | Walter Swenson | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1948 | Sep / Oct | The Swooning Lady | 178 | Lester Dent | Walter Swenson | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1949 | Winter | The Green Master | 179 | Lester Dent | George Rozen | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1949 | Spring | Return From Cormoral | 180 | Lester Dent | George Rozen | Doc, Monk, Ham |
1949 | Summer | Up From Earth's Center | 181 | Lester Dent | George Rozen | Doc, Monk, Ham |
Doc Savage Magazine (1975)
Magazine Management Co, Inc, a Marvel imprint also called Curtis Magazines, published eight black-and-white illustrated magazines as a movie tie-in. The cover of the first issue was an elaboration of the poster for the 1975 film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze painted by Roger Kastel, with all of the other covers painted by Ken Barr. So, for eight issues, a Doc Savage magazine reappeared on newsstands. The stories were reprinted in Showcase Presents: Doc Savage and again as Doc Savage Archives: Vol 1.
Year | Month | Series # | Title | Author | Artwork | Description |
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1975 | Aug | 1 | Doom on Thunder Island | Doug Moench | John Buscema / Tony DeZuniga | The "Silver Ziggurat" destroys skyscrapers with lightning, and leads Doc's crew to a Pacific Island of electrically enhanced tigers and "manimals". Includes an article on the Doc Savage movie and interview with director George Pal. |
1975 | Oct | 2 | The Hell Reapers | Doug Moench | Tony DeZuniga | Includes an interview with Ron Ely about his role as Doc Savage. |
1976 | Jan | 3 | The Inferno Scheme | Doug Moench | John Buscema / Tony DeZuniga | Includes a solo tale starring Monk, A Most Singular Writ of Habeas Corpus, with art by Rico Rival. |
1976 | Apr | 4 | Ghost Pirates from the Beyond | Doug Moench | Tony DeZuniga / Marie Severin | |
1976 | Jul | 5 | The Earth-Wreckers! | Doug Moench | Tony DeZuniga | Includes articles "The Pulp Doc Savage" and "An Interview with Mrs. Lester Dent". |
1976 | Oct | 6 | The Sky-Stealers! | Doug Moench | Tony DeZuniga | Includes an article on "Renny" by Bob Sampson. |
1977 | Jan | 7 | The Mayan Mutations | Doug Moench | Val Mayerik / Tony DeZuniga | Includes an article on "Johnny" by Bob Sampson. |
1977 | Spring | 8 | The Crimson Plague! | Doug Moench / John Warner / John Whitmore | Ernie Chan | Final issue. |
Doc Savage novels
The list includes original Doc Savage novels either entirely new or developed from Lester Dent's stories and notes.
Year | Month | Title | Series # | Author | Notes |
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1979 | Jul | In Hell, Madonna / The Red Spider | 182 | Lester Dent | Originally submitted on Monday, 3 May 1948 but not published until July 1979 as No. 95 in the Bantam Books paperback series. |
1991 | Aug | Escape from Loki | 183 | Philip José Farmer | |
1991 | Oct | Python Isle | 184 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
1992 | Mar | White Eyes | 185 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
1992 | Jul | The Frightened Fish | 186 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
1992 | Oct | The Jade Ogre | 187 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
1993 | Mar | Flight into Fear | 188 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
1993 | Jul | The Whistling Wraith | 189 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
1993 | Nov | The Forgotten Realm | 190 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2011 | Jul | The Desert Demons | 191 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2011 | Nov | Horror in Gold | 192 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2012 | May | The Infernal Buddha | 193 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2012 | Sep | Death's Dark Domain | 194 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2013 | Mar | Skull Island | 195 | Will Murray | |
2013 | Sep | The Miracle Menace | 196 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2013 | Dec | Phantom Lagoon | 197 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2014 | May | The War Makers | 198 | Ryerson Johnson / Will Murray | |
2014 | Sep | The Ice Genius | 199 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2015 | June | The Sinister Shadow | 200 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2015 | Nov | The Secret of Satan's Spine | 201 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2016 | May | Glare of the Gorgon | 202 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2017 | Jan | Empire of Doom | 203 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2018 | Mar | Mr. Calamity | 204 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2018 | Mar | The Valley of Eternity | 205 | Lester Dent / Will Murray | |
2022 | Nov | The Perfect Assassin: A Doc Savage Thriller | 206 | James Patterson / Brian Sitts | |
2024 | Oct | Murder Island : A Doc Savage Thriller | 207 | James Patterson / Brian Sitts |
References
- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Feb. 1979 issue
- "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip José Farmer, Bantam paperback edition, 1975, page 29.
- "Doc and his men had a fixed policy against taking human life, even in the most heated combat." "The Sargasso Ogre", Bantam Edition, page 42.
- "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip José Farmer, Bantam paperback edition, 1975, Addendum 3, "List of Doc Savage Stories", page 262.
- "Afterword by Will Murray" in "The Red Spider", Bantam, 1979.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - The March 1944 issue was accidentally credited to Lester Dent. This was the only time during the run of the magazine that Dent's real name was used.
- Cannaday 1990, p. 18.
- Moench, Doug; Tony DeZuniga (2011). Showcase Presents: Doc Savage. DC Comics. ISBN 978-1-4012-3125-5. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
- "Dynamite® Doc Savage Archives Vol. 1 the Curtis Magazine Era Hc".
Further reading
- Cannaday, Marilyn (1990). Bigger Than Life: The Creator of Doc Savage. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. ISBN 0-87972-471-4.
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