Books Update: Re-Working our Crime, Spies & Sleaze Category: Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze
*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Crime, Spies & Sleaze Category for the novels of Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze. Doc Savage first appeared in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. Real name Clark Savage Jr., he is a polymathic scientist, explorer, detective, and warrior. He was raised by scientists to become the perfect human, righting wrongs worldwide with the aid of his five associates – and a sixth, if you included Doc’s shapely cousin Pat Savage, an Amazonian lady with a deft line in snappy patter. The series’ main writer, was Lester Dent. Doc Savage stories were published under the Kenneth Robeson name, as were the paperback series of novels published from the 1960s to the 1990s, which reprinted the 181 stories from the pulp magazine. You can start, or add to, your collection right here with 8 of these novels, well presented with attractive painted covers.
PICTURED: ALL DOC SAVAGE BY KENNETH ROBESON ALL SOLD
THE AWFUL EGG Bantam 1978 US PB VG £5
THE GREEN EAGLE Bantam 1968 1st US PB GD £4
LAND OF ALWAYS NIGHT Bantam 1966 1st US PB GD £4
THE MAGIC ISLAND Bantam 1977 US PB VG/FN £6
METEOR MENACE Corgi 1975 1st UK PB GD £4
PIRATE OF THE PACIFIC Bantam 1977 US PB VG/FN £6
THE SARGASSO OGRE Bantam 1967 1st US PB VG £5
TUNNEL TERROR Bantam 1979 US PB VG/FN £6