Doc Savage Volume 1
Fortress of Solitude, The Devil Genghis
By Kenneth Robeson

Genre: Mystery and Detective
Softcover
128 pages
Published by Nostalgia Ventures
Published October 2006
ISBN: 1932806490 / 9781932806496

Product Information

Double-novel reprints, that include original cover art and interior illustrations.

Special commentary and articles from historians Anthony Tollin and Will Murray. Written by Lester Dent writing as Kenneth Robeson.

Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches

"Fortress of Solitude" and "The Devil Genghis" The Man of Bronze returns as the pulps¹ greatest superman confronts The Devil Genghis, John Sunlight, a mad genius armed with incredible scientific inventions stolen from Doc Savage¹s  Fortress of Solitude.  Doc Savage and his Iron Crew return in two thrilling novels by Lester Dent writing as Kenneth Robeson. This 7"x10" trade paperback marks the return of Lester Dent's original Doc Savage novels after a 15-year hiatus.  Doc Savage Magazine was one of the most popular of the hero pulps, published from 1933 through 1949 by Street & Smith as the sister publication to The Shadow Magazine. The Doc Savage pulp novels were reprinted by Bantam between 1964 and 1991, and created a publishing sensation as the first numbered series of paperback adventure novels.

Fans may notice strong similarities between a certain blockbuster summer film and the plot of Lester Dent's 1938 novel, Fortress of Solitude. Clark Savage Jr., the Man of Bronze, was a major influence on the creation and development of Clark Kent, the Man of Steel, including of course his arctic "Fortress of Solitude." This double-novel volume reprints both appearances of Doc Savage's greatest enemy, the diabolical John Sunlight. "If Street & Smith had not published The Shadow and Doc Savage, there might never have been any Superman  or Batman," observes popular-culture historian Will Murray, who collaborated with Lester Dent on seven posthumous Doc Savage novels and provides historical commentary in these new volumes. "Between them, Walter Gibson and Lester Dent created the archetype of the superhero, and most of  the fiction formulas and trappings of the eternal battle between superhero and supervillain that has come to dominate popular culture in the last 75 years. I like to call Lester Dent 'the Father of the Superhero' because, while Superman and Batman had other influences, both borrowed liberally from Doc Savage, the original owner of the Fortress of Solitude."

(Please specify CLASSIC cover edition or JAMES BAMA cover edition when ordering.)

Price: $12.95

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