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Doc Savage made it to the radio three times 1934-35, 1943, and 1985. Below is a list of the episodes culled from numerous sources. 1934-35 episodes were 15 minutes each and were written by Lester Dent. Episode Date Title 1...

These are a couple of rare items from Doc's long music career. The Doc Savage Six was Doc's Jazz combo from 1958 to 1964. The cassette was a 70s re-release of the most famous Savage Six album. This ticket was from the group's final concert. The "Special Suprise Guest" was actually Doc and the crew in the next incarnation of the band -- "Savage." I have a line on a rare Savage cassette.

January 17, 2000: An interview with Will Murray

In a previous column we listed the order Doc Savage novels were submitted to the publisher. We weren't finished. Below we have the five novels that were quickest "submitted to published" in days. We used the submitted date and subtracted it from the first day of the published month. (Yes, we know the novels weren't published on that day, but we needed a consistant date.) After the Quickest Five we have the Slowest Five. They are the novels that languished the longest on the editor's desk. Quickest Five Days 43 The Polar Treasure 68 The Man of Bronze 71 The Land of Terror 85 The Roar Devil 87 Quest of the Spider Slowest Five Days 547 Mad Eyes 573 He Could Stop the World 574 The Magic Forest 608 The Rustling Death 688 The Motion Menace

Doc Savage fans are a particular lot. Some have read the novels in the order they were published by Bantam. Some insist a better method is to read them in the order they were originally published. The latest "best order" is to read the novels in the order they were "submitted to Street and Smith." Guess who has that order for you? Year # Mag Title 1932 001 The Man of Bronze 1933 002 The Land of Terror 003 Quest of the Spider 004 The Polar Treasure 005 Pirate of the Pacific 006 The Red Skull 007 The Lost Oasis 008 The Sargasso Ogre 009 The Czar of Fear 010 The Phantom City 011 Brand of the Werewolf 012 The Man Who Shook the Earth 013 Meteor Menace 014 The Monsters 015 The Mystery on the Snow 1934 016 The King Maker 017 The Thousand-Headed Man 018 The Squeaking Goblin 019 Fear Cay 020 Death in Silver 021 The Sea Magician 022 The Annihilist 023 The Mystic Mullah 024 Red Snow 025 Land of Always-Night 026 The Spook Legion 027 The Secret in the Sky 1935 028 Spook Hole 029 The Roar Devil 030 Quest of Qui 031 Cold Death 032 The Majii 033 Mystery Under the Sea 034 Murder Melody 035 The Fantastic lsland 036 Dust of Death 037 The Seven Agate Devils 038 Murder Mirage 039 The Midas Man 040 The Black Spot 041 The Men Who Smiled No More 042 The Metal Master 043 Haunted Ocean 044 The South Pole Terror 045 Land of Long Juju 046 The Vanisher 047 Mad Eyes 048 He Could Stop the World 049 The Terror in the Navy 050 The Derrick Devil 1936 051 The Mental Wizard 052 The Land of Fear 053 Resurrection Day 054 Repel 055 The Motion Menace 056 Ost 057 The Sea Angel 1937 058 Devil on the Moon 059 The Golden Peril 060 The Feathered Octopus 061 The Living Fire Menace 062 The Mountain Monster 063 The Pirate's Ghost 064 The Red Terrors 065 The Submarine Mystery 1938 066 The Giggling Ghosts 067 The Munitions Master 068 Fortress of Solitude 069 The Devil Genghis 070 The Green Death 071 Mad Mesa 072 The Yellow Cloud 073 Merchants of Disaster 074 The Freckled Shark 075 World's Fair Goblin 076 The Gold Ogre 1939 077 The Flaming Falcons 078 The Crimson Serpent 079 Hex 080 Poison Island 081 The Stone Man 082 The Angry Ghost 083 The Dagger in the Sky 084 The Other World 085 The Spotted Men 086 The Evil Gnome 087 The Boss of Terror 088 The Flying Goblin 1940 089 The Purple Dragon 090 Tunnel Terror 091 The Awful Egg 092 The Headless Men 093 The Awful Dynasty 094 Devils of the Deep 095 The Men Vanished 096 The Devil's Playground 097 Bequest of Evil 098 The All-White Elf 099 The Golden Man 100 The Pink Lady 101 The Magic Forest 102 The Mindless Monsters 103 The Rustling Death 104 The Green Eagle 105 Mystery Island 1941 106 Birds of Death 107 Peril in the North 108 The Invisible-Box Murders 109 Men of Fear 110 The Man Who Fell Up 111 The Too-Wise Owl 112 Pirate Isle 113 The Speaking Stone 1942 114 The Three Wild Men 115 The Fiery Menace 116 The Laugh of Death 117 They Died Twice 118 The Devil's Black Rock 119 The Time Terror 120 The Talking Devil 121 Waves of Death 122 The King of Terror 123 The Black, Black Witch 124 The Running Skeletons 125 Mystery on Happy Bones 1943 126 The Goblins 127 The Mental Monster 128 Hell Below 129 The Secret of the Su 130 The Spook of Grandpa Eben 131 The Whisker of Hercules 132 According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic 133 Death Had Yellow Eyes 134 The Derelict of Skull Shoal 135 The Three Devils 136 The Pharaoh's Ghost 1944 137 The Man Who Was Scared 138 The Shape of Terror 139 Weird Valley 140 Jin San 141 Satan Black 142 The Lost Giant 143 Violent Night 144 Strange Fish 145 The Ten-Ton Snakes 146 Cargo Unknown 147 Rock Sinister 148 The Terrible Stork 149 King Joe Cay 1945 150 The Wee Ones 151 Terror Takes 7 152 The Thing That Pursued 153 Trouble on Parade 154 The Screaming Man 155 Measures for a Coffin 156 Se-Pah-Poo 157 Terror and the Lonely Widow 158 Five Fathoms Dead 159 Death is a Round Black Spot 160 Colors for Murder 1946 161 Fire and Ice 162 Three Times a Corpse 163 The Exploding Lake 164 Death in Little Houses 165 The Devil Is Jones 166 The Disappearing Lady 167 Target for Death 168 Danger Lies East 169 The Death Lady 170 No Light to Die By 171 The Monkey Suit 1947 172 Let's Kill Ames 173 Once Over Lightly 174 I Died Yesterday 175 The Pure Evil 176 Terror Wears No Shoes 1948 177 The Angry Canary 178 The Swooning Lady 179 In Hell, Madonna 180 The Green Master 181 Return From Cormoral 1949 182 Up From Earth's Center

Tom Barnett is looking for interest in a collection of articles Will Murray has written about Doc Savage. Will asked Tom to guage reader interest in the project. If you'd like to express interest or receive information when the collection is published email Tom at tomrbarnett@yahoo.com or leave your email as a comment here.

He's written Bleeding Sun, but Duane Spurlock isn't one to rest on his laurels. The man has started publishing articles on adventure and western pulps on his site Pulprack.com. Catchy name, no?

We've discussed reading Doc novels in published order or submission order or by author. I propose that if you really want to experience reading a Doc novel like they did in 1939 you drop by A Day in Radio . "On September 21, 1939, WJSV, an AM radio station in Washington, D.C., recorded the entire 19 hours of its broadcast day." That means you can read the "latest" issue of Doc Savage magazine -- The Stone Man (October 1939 was on the stands by that date) with the "proper" background sounds. (Note: Those of you who procrastinate reading would be finishing Poison Island.) For other Background Sounds...

From the introduction to Rick Lai's Complete Chronology of Bronze: This book is a heavily revised version of an earlier Doc Savage chronology that was published as The Bronze Age: An Alternate Doc Savage Chronology (Fading Shadows, 1992). At that time, the chronology consisted of the 181 novels originally published in the pulps and written by Lester Dent and other writers as well as three original paperback novels, Dent's The Red Spider, Philip Jose Farmer's Escape From Loki and Will Murray's Python Isle. During 1992-1993, six more novels were written by Will Murray were published. All of Mr. Murray�s novels incorporated material found in the papers of Lester Dent. This material ranged from outlines to drafts of novels. All of the new novels are included in the second version of this chronology. The Complete Chronology of Bronze $10.00 plus $2.50 postage/handling (Foreign Orders please add an additional $5 P/H, US funds) Make checks out to; Paul McCall 5801 West Henry Street Indianapolis, IN 46241 (This is a scholarly examination of the Doc Savage novels and in no ways infringes upon the copyright of Conned Nast copyright holders of Doc Savage.)

A review of the new chronology written by Jeff Deischer You can blame Phillip Jose Farmer for the spate of Doc Savage chronologies. Farmer proposed that the Doc Savage adventures were based on real events. He proceeded to list the adventures in chronological order. His list wasn't the last word on the subject. As other's have disagreed with his decision to mark Doc's birthdate there have been other chronologies. The latest attempt to place the Doc novels in historical order is by a person DocSavage.Info readers recognize -- Jeff Deischer. He wrote the second Doc novel offered by the Hidalgo Trading Company -- The Stone Death. No matter his connection to this site I have to tell you I really enjoyed The Adventures of Doc Savage: A Definitive Chronology. A manuscript prepared by a Doc scholar, well-written, and thought-provoking. In his introduction Deischer offers the cornerstone to his chronology: the LPO. The Last Possible Occurance of each adventure is "the latest date that the last day of an adventure can occur." Deischer decided that it takes at least 60 days before an magazine cover date to write and prepare a novel for publication. This time includes the fact that the cover date of an issue is actually more than a week after the magazine appeared on the newsstands. Deischer notes that the issues were on the newsstands the third Friday of each month. Since he didn't want to find the exact date he makes an assumption the newsstand date is always the 15th of the month. I note this since I decided to list the actual release dates on DocSavage.Org and here. Deischer's second assumption is that the novels occured in manuscript submitted order unless internal evidence disputes that order. Deischer took the LPO and submitted order then looked at the novels to find weather data, known events, dates, days, and vegatation. With meticulous research and strong logic Deischer presents the Doc novels in "actual order of occurance." Whee Farmer simply listed the order and maybe a word or two about his reasoning Deischer offers paragraphs for each entry. The reader is offered not only clues deciding order but interesting trivia for each entry. After I finish each novel I plan to read the pertinent entry in Deischer's book. Also, look for the Deischer Number to be added to the Submitted Number, Publication Number, and Bantam Reprint Number for each entry on DocSavage.Org . You can email Jeff with comments at: ikonoklast61@juno.com To order the book write: Green Eagle Publishing 2900 Standiford Ave., 16B PBM 136 Modesto, CA 95350