Editing Doc Savage (section)

==Publication history==
''[[Doc Savage (magazine)|Doc Savage Magazine]]'' was printed by [[Street & Smith]] from March 1933 to the summer of 1949 to capitalize on the success of ''[[The Shadow]]'' magazine and followed by the original ''[[Avenger (pulp-magazine character)|Avenger]]'' in September 1939. In all, 181 issues were published in various entries and alternative titles.<ref>See [[List of Doc Savage novels]] for a complete list of the 181</ref>

Doc Savage became known to a new generation of readers when [[Bantam Books]] began reprinting the individual magazine novels in 1964, this time with covers by artist [[James Bama]] that featured a bronze-haired, bronze-skinned Doc Savage with an exaggerated [[Widow's peak|widows' peak]], usually wearing a torn khaki shirt and under the by-line "Kenneth Robeson". The stories were not reprinted in chronological order as originally published, though they did begin with the first adventure, ''The Man of Bronze''. By 1967, Bantam was publishing once a month until 1990, when all 181 original stories (plus an unpublished novel, ''The Red Spider'') had run their course. Author [[Will Murray]] produced seven more Doc Savage novels for Bantam Books from Lester Dent's original outlines.  Bantam also published a novel by [[Philip José Farmer]], ''Escape From Loki'' (1991), which told the story of how in [[World War I]] Doc met the men who would become his five comrades.<ref>{{cite web |title=Doc Savage #183 - Escape from Loki |url=http://www.paperbackwarrior.com/2020/04/doc-savage-183-escape-from-loki.html |website=Paperback Warrior |access-date=11 February 2023}}</ref>

Clark Savage Jr. first appeared in March 1933 in the first issue of ''Doc Savage Magazine''. Because of the success of the Shadow, who had his own pulp magazine, the publishers Street & Smith quickly launched this pulp title. Unlike the Shadow, Clark Savage, "Doc" to his friends, had no special powers but was raised from birth by his father and other scientists to become one of the most perfect human beings in terms of strength, intelligence, and physical abilities.<ref>Hutchison, Don. ''The Great Pulp Heroes''. Oakville, ON/Buffalo, NY: Mosaic Press, 1998, p. 24-35</ref>

Doc Savage set up base on the 86th floor of a world-famous New York skyscraper (implied, but never outright stated, as the [[Empire State Building]]; Phillip José Farmer, in his ''[[Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life]]'', gives good evidence that this is likely the case). Doc Savage fights against evil with the assistance of the "Fabulous Five".{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}