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The longest-running, still updated Doc Savage website. We're the holding company for the Flearun and the Bronze Gazette.
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I believe one of them is in the La Plata, MO Preservation Society exhibit:
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Ninety-three years ago today, Lester Dent started writing The Man of Bronze (March 1933), his first Doc Savage novel for Street & Smith. He mentioned the day in his foreword to No Light to Die By (May 1947) #docsavage #pulp #adventure
By chance just now I found in an old notebook an entry that reads: This thing started Nov. 12, 1932. This brusque notation, it so happens, was made the day the writing of the first Doc Savage novel began. . . . If you'll notice the year—1932—you will see that it was fourteen years ago. Fourteen years is a long time, and from it we get, by multiplying, one hundred and sixty-eight months, which is about the number of book-length Doc Savage novels that have come from this typewriter. One hundred and sixty-eight. Now, these novels were author-told. They were written as authors tell a story. They were narratives by Kenneth Robeson about an extraordinary character named Doc Savage and a few of his friends.
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Aside: Doc Savage reprint artist Doug Rosa (The Land of Terror) painted the covers for Mundy's Tros of Samothrace reprints in the late 60s/early 70s
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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From office boy to vice-president at Street & Smith, Henry W. Ralston helped shape the golden age of pulp fiction with magazines like The Shadow and Doc Savage. He wasn’t just publishing adventure; he was shaping an industry.
#PulpHistory #DocSavage #TheShadow
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Happy birthday to Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze. 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? #DocSavage #Pulp #GoldenAge #Adventure #pulpfiction DocSavage.Org
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Born Nov 4 1917, Babette Rosmond kept Doc Savage alive at Street & Smith in the 40s, editing the pulp through its mid-decade transformation. Later a trailblazing editor, author & health activist, she proved that adventure wasn’t just for the men on the page. #DocSavage #pulp #adventure #pulpfiction
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Happy Belated Birthday to Walter Baumhofer, the artist who first (and best IMO) painted Doc Savage. #pulp #adventure #art #illustrator #artist #docsavage #pulpfiction
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Sad news for us all. I immediately remembered his many articles and his poetic tribute to the opening of The Man of Bronze (Bronze Gazette 15).

Requiescat in pace, David
October 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Blazes! It's the birthday of “Monk” Mayfair. Doc Savage's aide, a rough-and-ready chemist with the strength of a gorilla & the mind of a wizard! From lost cities to sinister laboratories, Monk, along with Doc & crew, battles evil with brains, brawn, and a booming laugh! #docsavage #pulpfiction
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Apologies, but we were unable to post yesterday on the anniversary of the birth of Doc Savage author W. Ryerson Johnson. Johnson wrote two novels and supplied the idea for a third. #docsavage #pulp #adventure #birthday

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October 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Here are the paperback versions of those fan novels:
October 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Artist and writer Gary Chaloner dives deep into Doc Savage: Resurrection Day. In this classic review, Gary explores pulse-pounding adventure, pulp legacy, and what makes this revival so intriguing. We'll have more soon!

#DocSavage #PulpFiction #BookReview #GaryChaloner

Read his full review here:
October 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Just posted a Doc Savage “Cover Art Check.” I've grouped some uncredited pulp covers by likely artist, but there’s some disagreement. I'm curious what others think.

Who do you think painted what? Please come comment with your thoughts. #docsavage #art #pulp

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October 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Just dropped: Daryl Morrissey’s Refraction 003: Quest of the Spider, a deep dive into Lester Dent’s 1933 tale of the Gray Spider’s sinister lumber empire and Doc Savage’s daring fight against poison flies, swamps, and subterfuge. Pulp adventure, weird menace, and classic heroics await. #docsavage
October 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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It's Lester Dent Day! Dent was the prime novel writer for Doc Savage Magazine from 1933 to 1949. You can learn more about him on the HTC: docsavage.org/lester-dent/

#docsavage #pulpfiction #author
October 12, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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James Bama’s cover for The Spook Legion #16/'67 has the Man of Bronze fade from sight. A masterclass in Bantam's Doc Savage reinvention w/ripped shirt, ripped physique, & widow's peak. Oil on board, 12.75" x 20" #docsavage #jamesbama #pump #paperback #cover
The entire city of New York is swept up in a wave of terror, as an evil international conspiracy devises a crime so sinister that only Doc Savage and his five mighty cohorts can halt its fiendish plan. Led by a phantom master criminal with stupefying supernatural powers, the conspiracy sets trap after trap for Doc. Finally, in a fantastic underground empire, the fearless bronze giant and his courageous crew must fight for their lives against a diabolical enemy that cannot even be seen.
October 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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10 years ago at Doc Con....
#docsavage #pulpfiction #fans
October 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Scrooge (1970)
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Happy Birthday, John! The pulse-pounding world of Doc Savage was greatly shaped by magazine editor John L. Nanovic, whose vision turned pulp into legend. #docsavage #pulpfiction

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No person can ever be certain for what they will be remembered for, if at all, but Nano­vic as editor and prime mover of such nostalgic titles as The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Avenger. Nick Carter, The Skipper, Pete Rice, The Feds and Crime Busters has secured his own niche of immor­ tality in the minds of those who’ cherish that aspect of popular culture that was represented by the pulps and particularly the hero pulps. https://docsavage.org/john-l-nanovic/
October 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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We just published the 2nd of @dazzah1.bsky.social 's Doc Savage pulp "Refractions." They're very detailed looks at the novels with an eye toward marking all the gadgets, villains, locations, etc of the pulps. #docsavage #pulp #adventure

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October 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Thinking of zealous Savageologist Rick Lai on his birthday.
#docsavage #wold-newton #pulp #adventure #theshadow
Respected pulp historian, fiction writer, and chronologist best known for his detailed work on classic pulp heroes such as Doc Savage, The Shadow, and The Avenger, Rick Lai was born on this date. An expert in the interconnected mythologies of pulp and adventure fiction, Lai authored numerous articles and stories that explored the hidden links between popular characters of the early 20th century. Among his most notable contributions is "The Adventures of Doc Savage: A Definitive Chronology," his groundbreaking expansion on Philip José Farmer’s chronology. He organized the entire Doc Savage saga into a cohesive and plausible timeline. Drawing on clues from the original pulp novels, Lai reconciled inconsistencies, cross-referenced historical events, and connected the Doc Savage stories to a broader pulp fiction universe. The chronology has been widely praised for its depth of research and for offering both longtime fans and new readers a structured way to explore the Man of Bronze’s many adventures.
October 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Definitely correct re: Doc Savage. Raised to help humanity, he spent a few years as an adventurer before the novels started, but it was in The Man of Bronze were he got his wealth. Twice in the pulps it was threatened, but he didn't lose it.
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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At the time the original Doc Savage adventures were written, there were 48 states in the United States of America. (Hawaii and Alaska were added in 1959.)

Of those 48 states, can you guess which never had a mention?

#docsavage #pulpfiction #trivia

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October 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM