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Doc Savage

by Lester Dent

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Superman

Comic · 1939

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The claim is about Doc Savage, the pulp hero this novel introduced. Superman borrowed from him openly:

  • The Man of Steel echoes the Man of Bronze
  • Both heroes retreat to a Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic, Doc Savage's first

Siegel and Shuster read the Doc Savage pulps, and the connection is standard in histories of the character.

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Doc Savage

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High above the skyscrapers of New York, Doc Savage engages in deadly combat with the red-fingered survivors of an ancient lost civilization. He journeys with his crew to the mysterious lost valley to search for a treasure and to destroy the mysterious Red Death. The Man of Bronze is a Doc Savage pulp novel by Lester Dent writing under the house name Kenneth Robeson. It was published in March 1933. It was the basis of the 1975 movie Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze starring Ron Ely.

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