Any Doc Savage fans?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

At one time, I had a complete collection of all his paperback books. But it's been years now since I've read any of his stories.

He was THE original Superhero, bar none. I'm still waiting on a really decent movie adaptation of some of the stories.

[lenidog]

1. No sorry I am a fan of his contemporary the Shadow but not of him

the the only Doc Savage stuff I have is from the late 80s when DC Comics revived the Shadow and had DOc Savage in a mini-series with the Shadow

[Wilber_Stool]

2. The Man of Bronze.

And his crime fighting team. I read quite a few of them when I was in the army. He had some pretty perverse ideas about rehabilitation.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

3. You've piqued my interest....

Can you recommend a good Doc Savage site?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Here's the best one currently active

http://thepulp.net/docsavage.html

It gives descriptions of each adventure.

[The Traveler]

5. Yeah, man

Doc Savage had a dark side that made Batman look like a candy striper!

His highly talented and traumatized war buddies weren't poster children for mental health either. It is mythology, of course, a distorted but symbolic reflection of its times ... post World War I America, the trauma of the Lost Generation and a desperate hope that Science and Reason would provide the answers, and that gnawing fear that they wouldn't, that even worse evils were on the way. Somehow, the whole series seems to capture that. Doc and his crew beat all these bad guys and solve all these problems, but somehow things never get better, never change. And towards the end, you have this sense that Doc is feeling the years, and his obsessive certainty has been replaced with regret and doubt.