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|  The pulps' legendary superman returns in two of his greatest adventures.
These thrilling pulp adventures are reproduced with the original color pulp covers by Walter Baumhofer and Emery Clarke, interior illustrations by Paul Orban and historical articles by Will Murray (who wrote 7 Bantam Doc Savage novels).
Land of Always-Night (1935): A strange being who kills with the touch of a finger leads Doc Savage on a quest to a lost underworld civilization, in an epic 1935 collaboration by W. Ryerson Johnson and Lester Dent writing as Kenneth Robeson.
Mad Mesa (1938): The Man of Bronze awakens to discover that he's in another man's body and imprisoned in a penitentiary; hundreds will die unless Doc Savage can escape and solve the mystery of the mesa madness.
Never before has there been such a group of altruistic adventurers as Doc Savage and his five companions. Raised from the cradle for his task in life, Clark Savage, Jr., goes from one end of the world to another, righting wrongs, helping the oppressed, liberating the innocent.
With limitless wealth at his command if he needs it, Doc has the best of scientific equipment and supplies. He maintains his New York headquarters as a central point, but in addition has his Fortress of Solitude at a place unknown to anyone, where he goes at periodic intervals to increase his knowledge and concentrate.
His "college" in upper New York is a scientific institution to which he sends all captured crooks, for there, through expert treatment, they are made to forget all of their past and start life anew.
Fighting these battles with Doc Savage are his five companions. Ham is Brigadier General Theodore Marley Brooks, the most astute lawyer Harvard ever turned out; a faultless dresser, and as adept with his ever-present sword cane as he is with words. Monk, his "sparring" partner, though he looks like a gorilla, is actually a most learned chemist—Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett Mayfair, one of the foremost chemists in the world. Ham, during the War, taught Monk some French words to use in flattering a French officer. The words weren't flattering, it turned out, and Monk spent some time in the guard house. Soon after, a supply of hams was missed, and all the evidence led to Ham, who denied his guilt. It gave him the name, and the cause for the continual battle between the two. Yet, when it comes to a showdown, they would gladly give their lives for each other.
Renny, or Colonel John Renwick, is a leading engineer. And his huge fists enjoy knocking through wooden panels. He likes a fight better than a slide rule. Long Tom, the electrical wizard, and Johnny, the geologist and archaeologist, complete the group. Johnny is William Harper Littlejohn; Long Tom is Major Thomas J. Roberts.
All of this group are famous in their own name, yet they find more joy in helping others than in adding to their own wealth. Under the guidance of Doc Savage, they form a perfect band of adventurers whose lives are one thrill after another.
Doc Savage Magazine was one of the most popular of the hero pulps, published from 1933 through 1949 by Street & Smith as the sister publication to The Shadow Magazine. The Doc Savage pulp novels were reprinted by Bantam between 1964 and 1991, and created a publishing sensation as the first numbered series of paperback adventure novels.
Fans may notice strong similarities between a certain blockbuster summer film and the plot of Lester Dent's 1938 novel Fortress of Solitude. Clark Savage Jr., the Man of Bronze, was a major influence on the creation and development of Clark Kent, the Man of Steel, including of course his arctic "Fortress of Solitude."
This double-novel volume reprints both appearances of Doc Savage's greatest enemy, the diabolical John Sunlight. "If Street & Smith had not published The Shadow and Doc Savage, there might never have been any Superman or Batman," observes popular-culture historian Will Murray, who collaborated with Lester Dent on seven posthumous Doc Savage novels and provides historical commentary in these new volumes. "Between them, Walter Gibson and Lester Dent created the archetype of the superhero, and most of the fiction formulas and trappings of the eternal battle between superhero and supervillain that has come to dominate popular culture in the last 75 years. I like to call Lester Dent 'the Father of the Superhero' because, while Superman and Batman had other influences, both borrowed liberally from Doc Savage, the original owner of the Fortress of Solitude."
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