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... to go from here to there, from one end of the world to the other, looking
for excitement and adventure, striving to help those in need of help, and punishing those who
deserve it.
To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious, figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing co-adventurers -- the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group -- he is a man of superhuman strength and protean genius, whose life is dedicated to the destruction of evil-doers. To his fans he is one of the gretest adventure heroes of all time, whose fantastic exploits are unequaled for hair-raising thrills, breathtaking escapes and bloodcurdling excitement. Just under two years after The Shadow appeared on magazine racks, Doc Savage became the third pulp character to get his own magazine. The world met the Man of Bronze in a novel titled “The Man of Bronze,” March 1933. Doc Savage was created by Street and Smith’s Henry W. Ralston, with help from editor John L. Nanovic, in order to capitalize on the surprise success of The Shadow magazine. It was Lester Dent, though, who crafted the character into the superman that he became.
Through 181 novels, the fight against evil was on. From a headquarters on the 86th floor of a towering
Manhattan skyscraper, Doc, his five pals -- Renny | ||
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