List of Doc Savage novels

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Doc Savage
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.

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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.[1] 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",[2] 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[3] 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.[4]

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.[5]

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.[6]

Doc Savage Magazine (1933)

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Year Month Title / Bantam Retitle Series # Author Cover Artist Cast
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[7][8] 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)

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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[9] and again as Doc Savage Archives: Vol 1.[10]

Year Month Series # Title Author Artwork Description
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

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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
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

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  1. ^ Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Feb. 1979 issue
  2. ^ "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip José Farmer, Bantam paperback edition, 1975, page 29.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip José Farmer, Bantam paperback edition, 1975, Addendum 3, "List of Doc Savage Stories", page 262.
  5. ^ "Afterword by Will Murray" in "The Red Spider", Bantam, 1979.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-08-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Cannaday 1990, p. 18.
  9. ^ Moench, Doug; Tony DeZuniga (2011). Showcase Presents: Doc Savage. DC Comics. ISBN 978-1-4012-3125-5. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  10. ^ "Dynamite® Doc Savage Archives Vol. 1 the Curtis Magazine Era Hc".

Further reading

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  • 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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