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Sun Koh and his Crew
The Nazi pulp übermensch, Sun Koh did not travel alone. Like Doc Savage, Sun Koh had his own crew of aides. Their number changed from time to time, but I have been able to piece together some of the...
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Doc Savage and the Mount Shasta Conspiracy
During the 1930s, Doc Savage came into conflict with many villains who possessed highly advanced technologies. In "The Monsters" it was a formula that could turn men into giants. In"The Midas Man" it...
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Thunder Island and the Smoke of Eternity
In the second Doc Savage story, "The Land of Terror", Doc and his crew travel to Thunder Island where there are dinosaurs, primitive mammals, and other extinct flora and fauna. It is also on this...
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The Roar Devil: Not as far fetched as you might think...
{SPOILER WARNING}In the Doc Savage story "The Roar Devil" (June 1935) the villain uses a machine that completely suppresses human hearing. He does this to cover the noise of massive TNT explosions that...
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Murder Mirage and the Hiroshima Shadows
{Spoiler Alert} The Super Saga Murder Mirage (January, 1936) has a very interesting super scietnfic menace. It is an unknown radioactive element that causes a green "flash" which dissolves flesh and...
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What was Doc Savage's Birthday?
{I want to give a special thanks to Savageology scholars Chuck Welch and Jeff Deischer. Their critiques of the earlier editions of this blog led to the correction of several errors. I think the...
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In What Years were Pat Savage and the Five Aides Born?
This represents an interesting problem. There are no clear indications in the Super Sagas or in Dent's notes as to the ages of Pat Savage or the Five Aides. People have speculated about this but in...
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More of Sun Koh's Crew
As I have learned more about the German pulp character Sun Koh, I have discovered other regular characters that occur in his stories. They are interesting and I thought people might enjoy hearing about...
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Ham Brooks' Law Firm
We have known for quite sometime that Ham was a member of a law firm with partners. This was mentioned in the movie Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. There also was a mention of this in the Prince Zarkon...
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The Secret of the Mental Wizard and of "Klantic"
The South American adventure entitled "The Mental Wizard" was first published in March of 1937. Doc and his crew discovered an exotic woman named "Z" whose every strand of hair has been coated with...
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The Secrets of "The Land of Always Night"
A mysterious pale complected stranger named Ool with watery blue eyes, a black cape and an odd accent stalked New York City. The stranger used a fluttering motion of his hand to bring sudden death! He...
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The Fab Five: The Next Generation
In his pastiche "The Mad Goblin", Philip José Farmer introduced us to the sons of Doc Caliban's aides Jocko and Porky who were his versions of Monk Mayfair and Ham Brooks. These second generation aides...
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Who was Doc Savage's legal mother?
As I have noted in an earlier blog, the birth of Clark Savage Jr. was recorded in the United States after the survivors of the wreck of the Orion made it to New York. It appears that they gave a false...
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The Greystoke Coat of Arms
Here it is: the Greystoke Coat of Arms rendered in full color as described by Phil Farmer and drawn by Bjo Trimble! Now if I could only find the Savage Coat of Arms!Art
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Farmerphile #14 has a lot for Doc Savage fans!
http://www.pjfarmer.com/farmerphile.htm#iss14The Farmerphile Magazine Issue #14 has several articles that will be of interest to Doc Savage fans.First of all well known artist Keith Howell is...
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Doc Savage has had a widespread influence in adventure fiction but very few people are aware of his appearances in two pieces of literature.In 1966 author Truman Capote wrote an intense docudrama book...
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A New On-Line Doc Savage Pastiche
I recently received a comment on my blog by Jean Michel, a writer and artist who has been a Doc Savage fan for many years. He has some of his graphics art-work on display on the "Clash City Design"...
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Monk and Ham's Excellent Adventure
The above is the only known picture of Monk Mayfair (seated) and Ham Brooks (standing to the right). (The identity of the man on the left is not known.) This photograph was taken immediately after they...
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Philip José Farmer: A Tribute
I want to give a personal tribute to Philip José Farmer the renowned author who passed on to his reward on 25 February 2009. He has been a major influence on my life and thought for 40 years. His work...
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The Evil in Pemberley House by Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert
The great Grandmaster of science fiction, Philip José Farmer, was the consummate bibliophile. He was well read in classical English prose as well as the more popular literary works of modern times. His...
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The Wildman Coat of Arms
Philip José Farmer the late great Science Fiction Grandmaster wrote biographies of the two iconic pulp characters of the 20th Century: Tarzan Alive! and Doc Savage, An Apocalyptic Life. In those...
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Quest of Tcho
A mysterious lost race of little people in the frozen wastes of the Arctic known as the Qui captures Doc Savage and his crew to enslave them as they do to all normal sized humans. In the end Doc Savage...
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The Super Machine Pistol
{This is guest post written by James "China Jim" Campbell. Jim has his own take on Doc Savage's history so this is an alternative world story with some factual information added. Enjoy!}Of all the...
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Doc Savage's Origins: Another Perspective
Most people who think of Doc Savage's origins will think of the work of Philip José Farmer in his books Escape from Loki, Tarzan Alive! ,and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. But if we look at the...
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The New Pulp Revival continues! Professional author, playwright and educator Martin O'Hearn has written a pulp superhero novel The Terrible Troll which is currently available for the Kindle on...
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