Doc Savage
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Doc Savage is described as being a bronze giant with fleck-gold eyes and hair slightly more bronze in hue than his skin. Dent frequently referred to Doc Savage using metaphors such as "metallic" and "statue of bronze", especially in the pre-WW2 adventures.
Doc Savage full name is Clark Savage, Jr., and the son of adventurer Clark Savage, Sr., who is murdered in the lead-up to the first adventure, The Man of Bronze.
He is a man of great strength and tremendous knowledge. His original training was as a surgeon, but he was also a master of many fields, including chemistry, electricity, engineering, archeology, and many others. Doc Savage was also an expert pilot and seaman.
It is frequently mentioned in the adventures that Doc Savage would spend two hours everyday working on his mind and body to further improve his capabilities. This went beyond just physical tests of strength, but also mental exercises in mathematics, identifying certain odors, and testing his hearing.
Doc Savage and his five aides, were created by Henry Ralston and John Nanovic, but it was the fertile imagination of Lester Dent that breathed life into the characters and the series, writing most of the 181 adventures that comprised the original run of the series.
Lester Dent left behind several outlines and one unpublished novel, The Red Spider. This last adventure was published for the first time by Bantam Books during its run at reprinting the Doc Savage Adventures, and reprinted by Nostalgia Ventures. Will Murray used the remaining outlines from Lester Dent to write additional Doc Savage adventures, continuing with the use of the original pen name, Kenneth Robeson.
