Doc Savage Origin - Extravagant Masculine Pulp Superhero That World Has Forgotten - Explored!

[@pleasefuzzy]

I remember reading Doc Savage as a teen, now as a 74 year adult I still remember the thrilling adventurers he and his crew went on. Being retired Military I had a couple myself, It would be nice if they brought back the series. He was always an inspiration, and a damn good read. SSG K.

[@jlutell]

same age though my father introduced me to his childhood hero when I was around 10 or so. When the paperbacks were released my allowance was spent along with edgar rice burroughs Tarzan and Martian series...again all from my father's introduction.

[@richardwilliams473]

Wow! I too used to read the Doc Savage books as well and I'm 74 years old as like you!

[@libRteedude]

Will Murray's been releasing Doc Savage stories for a few years now. Even did a crossover with The Shadow!

[@jeffreyk5734]

@@libRteedude In the 90's, I always thought that Kevin Sorbo would have been a great Doc Savage. Dude was even Bronze. When The Shadow movie came out with Alec Baldwin I thought that Doc Savage couldn't be far behind. And they could have used the same sets from The Shadow to make a Doc film. Alas, it didn't happen. I didn't care to much for The Shadow movie story wise. For one it didn't even use his real name, which as Kent Allard, not Lamont Cranston. The Spirit movie in 1998 was atrocious. I still think that Doc Savage and The Spirit could both have been huge Hollywood Franchises.

[@mikespitzer007]

DOC SAVAGE has always been my #1 favorite hero since childhood -- I am almost 60 now, so just hoping they make a movie or TV series that does the character justice before I die.

[@55Quirll]

I'm 66 and really enjoy reading and re reading those classics.

[@arthurtripp6922]

NO WONDER SUPERHEROES BECAME POPULAR IN THE 1940S. THE SHADOW, AVENGER AND DOC SAVAGE STARTED THE BALL ROWLING.

[@55Quirll]

@@arthurtripp6922 Don't forget the Phantom 👍, great News paper comic.

[@lkabong5529]

@@55Quirll I liked reading the Phantom in the newspaper but this is the first time I've ever heard of Doc Savage.

[@55Quirll]

@@lkabong5529 Not as widely published as the Phantom, being a newspaper comic it got more exposure, Doc Savage being a book not so much, the Shadow I didn't know much about till the movie came out. The Shadow was a radio show for a long time. Love these old time adventure characters 👍

[@erikramaekers63]

I saw the movie in 1975 and liked it very much.Doc Savage and The Shadow together in a new movie would be great.

[@keithfreeman5204]

It had to be back in about 1962, I was reading the paperback versions of "Doc Savage". They were on the paperback stand and were for sale. There were 5-6 books/stories.

[@CeltKnight]

I remember as a young lad seeing ads for Doc Savage novels and comics. I was intrigued. Then the 1976 movie came on TV around 1981-ish when I was about 13. My parents (born in the 1930s) were very familiar with him and suggested I'd enjoy the movie (though it looked like more of a spoof than a serious production). It was watching him in his big fight near the end (IIRC) when both Doc and the bad guy kept switching martial art styles (handily narrated on screen with captions) that I decided I HAD to pursue proficiencies in several different martial arts (no mean feat since there wasn't much around me then). Now middle aged with about 35 years of serious martial art studies ... I gotta wonder how the hell Doc managed to get out of bed and cope with all the arthritis! LOL!!!! I read the novels when I was about 17 and loved them. I would really enjoy a SERIOUS on-screen adaptation of Doc Savage.

[@robertlehnert4148]

I have a slightly closer connection to Doc Savage than most-- I married the Granddaughter of Lester & Peg Dent's cleaning lady, and my wife as a very little girl remembers playing in the basement of the Dent's house in La Plata MO and remembering Lester himself before his 1960 death. In 1992 I got to visit Peg Dent, and see the home, including Lester's office, and handle the man's swordcane.

[@jeffshadow2407]

Mr. dent passed away in 1959.

[@robertlehnert4148]

Thank you @@jeffshadow2407

[@Forcemaster2000]

I saw the 1975 film as a child, and fell in love with Doc Savage, I read many of the books and have never forgotten him!

[@Firebrand1967]

Buckaroo Banzai was also an inspirational nod to Doc Savage.

[@kurtjk01]

I remember walking out of the theater after seeing the movie, and saying to my date, "That was new wave Doc Savage. Very cool." Then I had to explain to her who Doc Savage was . . .

[@rodneymarsden3003]

I remember Buckaroo Banzai as an awful film. Doc Savage might have inspired it but it was a mess.

[@kurtjk01]

@@rodneymarsden3003 It was an adventure comedy; a parody and an homage.

[@scottmantooth8785]

*without question*

[@arthurtripp6922]

BAD TIME FOR THE MOVIE TO BE MADE THE CAMP PERIOD.

[@ThunderWarrior01]

I’ve loved this movie since my childhood and proudly own the DVD. Great Saturday afternoon movie to sit, switch off with popcorn and soda and enjoy

[@gregorymuhammad7308]

The Tarzan guy was crushing it. Great casting.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Ron Ely. He did a great job for the era. Dwayne Johnson could be a Doc Savage. John Cena is a 🇨🇳 puppet.

[@ourkeving]

@@DavidLLambertmobile say what?

[@nortondumont9711]

Indeed, Ely was perfectly cast as Savage and that is why it is even more of a shame that the film bares little resemblance to the novel.

[@loochboy]

I was introduced to Doc back in the early/mid-seventies, and loved him! A local used book store kept getting them in and I kept buying them. I read them all, got the comics, loved the Bama covers-as for the movie well, it could have been better. I think what made it bad was the Sousa score! That being said, Ron Ely was a good choice. I still love Doc to this day.

[@valentynyevenko5047]

And everyone underestimates how worthy his father was as a "father figure" in the life of Doc Savage. It is really a feat to raise such a son.

[@baldeagle5297]

Read Skull Island by Will Murray, it explores the relationship between Doc and his father.

[@michaelrodriguez1676]

As a eugenics experiment.

[@shinjaokinawa5122]

Doc Savage was very popular in my youth. Just having a book with that fantastic art was reason for envy. At school in the morning the book would be passed around just to look at the cover.

[@TruckieLooks4Aliens]

So the original actor was Ron Ely who’s daughters were my closest bffs in my 20s until I moved. I moved back a year before the son Camron stabbed his mother & was killed by the cops. I won’t go into the reasons but it is devastating. I didn’t know he played Doc until I saw this.

[@Data_Base_Stats]

When I was a kid I read every paperback there was of Doc Savage. Love them all!

[@robertfuller3578]

Doc Savage was a big part of my childhood. I got hooked on the reprints in the early 70s. It is cool to that after I read them my Dad would read them, he read the original pulps as a kid. Took me many years, but I collected the entire reprint run from Bantam. Have the books on the bookshelf in the office.

[@RoomAtTheTopStudio]

I know Doc Savage from his stories in Marvel comics back in the 70's. Still want a part two to the movie

[@dinomonzon7493]

Same here! 👍

[@Qochoc]

I read the novels in the 70s

[@jmen4ever257]

What the comic needed. First, a MUCH longer run then a mere 8 issues. Second, more Steranko covers. Third, Every issue inked by Tom Palmer.

[@dinomonzon7493]

Philip Jose Farmer also wrote Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (Bantam Books 1974) which gave a very good overview of Doc Savage’s history, as well that of his aides, and Patricia Savage. You failed to cite a scene near the end of Dark Horse’s The Shadow/Doc Savage: The Case of the Shrieking Skeletons. Doc, the Fabulous Five & the Shadow rescue a scientist named Dr. Reinstein, who Doc suggests work for a US military camp, implying that Doc Savage had a hand in the creation of Timely/Marvel’s Captain America.

[@dinomonzon7493]

WOW! Thanks for considering my request! My first exposure to Doc was Bantam’s Doc Savage reprinted novels. I also managed to get a copy of DC’s Doc Savage TPB, ironically, reprinting the Marvel Comics series of the 1970s. Doc was the major inspiration and influence indeed on Superman. Stan Lee himself noted in Comics Scene 2000 #1 that he has read the original Doc magazines, citing his aides Renny (Col. John Renwick), and Monk (Lt. Col. Andrew Blodgett Mayfair). My fave was Brig. Gen. Theodore Marley “Ham” Brooks, and Doc’s cousin, Pat. The 1975 Doc Savage film was fun. I enjoyed it very much. Ron Ely was perfectly cast as Doc. Its flaw was the touches of camp. Doc Savage & Sherlock Holmes? I know I would’ve watched it and read the novelization had it come out. I also read Giant Size Spider-Man # 2 (Spider-Man and Doc Savage). Missed Marvel opportunities: teaming Doc with Captain America or Nick Fury & his Howling Commandos. Thanks again also for citing Bill Finger - he was the True creator of Batman, after all. Great video!

[@PhoenixLyon]

Sgt. Fury and his howling commandos and Doc Savage would be great.✌🏻🐱

[@dinomonzon7493]

Especially as the Doc Savage novels set from 1943 or so had Doc and his crew undergo behind the lines missions, with completing the mission was half the story & the other getting back to allied lines without being caught by the Axis as spies.

[@manofbeard]

Bill Finger doesn’t get enough credit for his input in the creation of Batman. If Bob Kane had gotten his way Batman would have been the hybrid that became Man-bat. It was finger that drew up Batman as we now know him. The rest is history as they say.

[@artedwards8536]

I remember doc savage. There were pulp comics next to the glossy ones in the 70s. Besides the fangoria and creepshow type stuff. I found some black and white ink stuff about Doc Savage. Early 20th century adventurers were the base for many of them.

[@55Quirll]

Loved reading the books when I was younger, 66 now. Tried to do the exercises Doc would do every day. 😊😊😊. Thanks for a great video 👍👍👍

[@baronbattles4681]

As a fan of Ron Ely, it was sad more weren’t made, perhaps it was “too” comic book for 1975.

[@Failedprodegy42]

Doctor Savage is the precursor to Batman and Superman. I'll explain. Doc was the man of bronze who often went to his fortress solitude in the arctic where he invented a manner of inventions. He carried those inventions in his utility vest. Ring any bells? He was also the son of a slain billionaire and he devoted his life to fighting crime. Cough cough.

[@williamb6266]

you missed his first name which was Clark. ring any bells?

[@JackClayton123]

And for Batman, Kent is the first name of the Shadow.

[@hemidas]

Doc Savage=Superman. The Shadow=Batman.

[@Gaybraham.Lincoln]

The video just told me all of that

[@geraldstephens6612]

The creators of Superman & Batman readily admit that Doc Savage was their inspiration for those characters

[@didierfavre2356]

Each novel was published in French and I read them all with a lot of pleasure. I totally forgot him but now you opened the floodgates of my memory. More than hundred stories and I enjoyed them all.

[@TheCasualFanatic]

When I was at Shane Black's mansion several years ago, shortly before he had finished The Nice Guys, I had gotten to see his extensive library full of pulp novels! They had ranged from Doc Savage all the way to entire collections of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew stories! I think he even mentioned that he was working on the Doc Savage project, but I was a little too busy helping my friend film some scenes for his reel, during that crazy weekend!

[@VFXking]

What?

[@gmmeier321]

That was the planned version with The Rock as Doc.

[@TruthTellert63]

@@gmmeier321 Thank GOD that appears to have gone nowhere -- I can't think of a WORSE choice for Doc Savage than "the Rock."

[@jamesmcclure3907]

Back in the 70s, I was obsessed with all the Bantam reprint paperbacks...he's a great character...the stories were sort of repetitive and a lot of potboiler stuff, but the characters were unforgettable and in general they were a lot of fun.

[@glennbrymer4065]

I read Doc Savage series starting in 1964. I read them all. Along with the Hardy Boys and the Tom Swift series. I read Tarzan and Conan stories. I feel so sad and sorry for today's kids. They will never know the fun of reading a real book. Cell phones and computer games sad replacements

[@thewkovacs316]

im a member of the world and i havent forgotten i bought the paperback reprints of the pulps...along with the reprints of the shadow pulps without doc savage, there would not be superman, batman or the fantastic four (which means there wouldnt be superheroes as we know them and marvel comics would never have been created) dont know if it's still in print, but a great book on savage is "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip José Farmer...written from the pov that doc and his crew as well as other pulp heroes, were all real people...it's brilliant

[@Elementa2006]

Doc Savage, the amalgamation of the strength of Tarzan and the intelligence of Sherlock Holmes. No really, that's what his creator Lester Dent stated along with other inspirations. In fact author Philip Jose Farmer actually made Holmes, Tarzan and Savage part of the same family tree in his World Newton Universe series.

[@mikegrossberg8624]

Farmer actually connected Savage to just about every fictional "super" character in literature, not only Holmes and Tarzan, but the Shadow, Philo Vance, Nero Wolfe, Alan Quartermain, and several others, INCLUDING Superman and Fu Manchu!

[@Elementa2006]

@@mikegrossberg8624 I need to read those books, sound like the most glorious fanfiction ever. (and I mean that in a good way)

[@mikegrossberg8624]

@@Elementa2006 I suspect you'd find them very difficult to get hold of. I don't think anyone's printed them in more than two decades

[@TsukiumisGuy]

You can find them or reprints on ebay.

[@chrisrobinson9178]

@@TsukiumisGuy they are in print at the moment got mine this year

[@WWeronko]

As a young boy I had read and collected most of the Bantam Books on Doc Savage. I had kept them and started rereading them recently. Being they were written in the 1930s it is fascinating to see the cultural norms of the era. Doc Savage inspired me as a boy and I think it would be helpful for another generation if a movie or series was developed that displayed the clean cut super hero of his type.

[@tracymickelson5944]

Doc Savage is the BEST!!

[@the60skid48]

Chuck Connors would have made a great Doc Savage. Clint Walker as Renny, Neville Brand as Monk and Roddy McDowell as Johnny. David Niven as Ham, I’m not sure abut Long Tom but there were lots of great character actors who could have been cast.

[@jefferynelson]

sounds like you know Doc Savage material rather well, I remember there was a pet pig named Habeas Corpus, or something like that

[@the60skid48]

@@jefferynelson Yes, It was Monk’s pet pig and he named him that to annoy Ham…being a Lawyer.

[@garysofko]

I like your casting choices, I was a big fan and had 81 books in total. Helped spark my interest in science.

[@siegfriedkleinmartins7816]

OH MY....THE PERFECT CASTING FOR THIS MOVIE....AND NOW WE CAN "RESSURECT" THIS ACTORS WITH CGI

[@the60skid48]

@@siegfriedkleinmartins7816 Glad you think so.

[@Swampthing86]

My favorite pulp magazine characters are The Shadow The Phantom Conan The Barbarian Solomon Kane Kull of Atlantis Buck Rogers Doc Savage

[@matthewhood7844]

Just to clarify on number two, I presume you mean the character that was in the Phantom Detective pulps not the comic strip character in the Bengalla jungle.

[@jamiebraswell5520]

You forgot to mention that Dave Stephen's used Doc Savage and two of his team members in his comic book, The Rocketeer. Doc Savage was the creator of the rocket pack. Dave did not have the rights to Doc Savage, so he used imagery and character attributes only to imply who the characters were, much like he did with Betty, who was obviously Betty Page. Disney did not own the rights to Doc Savage, so Dave changed the story to having Howard Hughes be the creator of the rocket pack for the 1991 film of The Rocketeer.

[@undeadgentalmen]

Superman lands in the artic, cape flapping in the wind. Face towards the sun. Doc Savage: Hi diddly ho, Neighbor!

[@siegfriedkleinmartins7816]

OH MY GOD....L OOOO L....

[@johndrippert3289]

I had pretty much the whole Doc Savage paperback series as a kid. Really liked those growing up.

[@dariobava]

Love Doc Savage!! And have many of his stories on paperbacks! And really enjoyed the film and wish they made sequels!!

[@ericphillips3810]

I read all the Doc Savage books I could get my hands on when I was a kid!! I have always longed to see his story brought to the modern day big screen!!

[@henrymccoy7171]

I inherited 22 Dock Savage paperbacks from my dad. I loved his adventures and read every book multiple times!! I didn't know that someone made an actual movie, however! Now i'll be looking for 1975's "Doc Savage, Man Of Bronze"!!

[@kmbbmj5857]

Doc Savage was my favorite. Better than batman and superman and James Bond. Devoured the books I could find as a kid.

[@dakotaloven1362]

My grandfather was never really into superheroes but doc savage was always his favourite he talks about him anytime I even bring up comic books lol

[@reynaldolunajr.6909]

As a kid I loved watching the movie whenever it came on TV. The first time I saw it I thought he was still playing Tarzan and he had created an organization to fight evil on a whole new level.

[@MrCjosue24]

Many superheroes I've never heard about and this character is one of them.

[@candykane8474]

American manly character in pulp hell yeah

[@michaelmcfarland1716]

Should look into the avenger, also his Justice, inc team.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

I never clearly got why Arnold Schwarzenegger or Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock made a Doc Savage movie or streaming show. 🎬

[@TruthTellert63]

@@DavidLLambertmobile Don't know -- but I'm glad they didn't. Either one of those would suck.

[@adrianomendonca]

Awesome Doc Savage

[@coyoteboy5601]

As a teen in the 70s, I went through the Doc paperbacks like M&Ms! Still have a soft spot for them. Writing Jim Bama praising his amazing cover art was the first (and, to date, only) fan letter I ever wrote.

[@wtk6069]

Doc Savage also directly inspired Captain Future, which was the top sci-fi pulp series dedicated to a single character. Ed Hamilton's Captain Future series structure was very deliberately just "Doc Savage in space", though the series does go in different directions from Doc Savage and soon found its own unique voice thanks to Hamilton's clean, efficient writing style that went against the purple prose in most pulps.

[@TsukiumisGuy]

And the Japanese loved the books so much they created an animated series of Captain Future in the late 70s just before or after Edmond Hamilton died.

[@MrStonelion63]

Growing up in the 60's, I remember seeing Doc Savage novels.

[@frespt]

I started reading Doc's books in the 1960 s. I still have about 60 of them. He was an inspiration to me. I pumped weights like mad always looking for the specifics of Doc's two-hour daily exercise routine. I wouldn't have been able to keep that up anyway. Doc went the way of James Bond also in the 60 s, but I still occasionally and nostalgically read some of both. The books are far from literary masterpieces, but I have no doubt that they began my road to reading those too.

[@jmen4ever257]

Sterankos history of comics related the formula that Dent used, for every story, and it worked for 16 years.

[@jerrystott7780]

I remember reading the doc savage books in paperback form in the seventies. There were many printed and Farmer wrote some strange versions that were entertaining as well.

[@matthewjacobs141]

In my youth, Doc Savage and his crew were the first books I read...From there it was on to John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

[@docireland]

Every time I see Doc Savage and his crew I also think of Buckaroo Banzai

[@Kels1701e]

Loved Doc Savage. Saw the film at the cinema when it was released and later bought the DVD. Such a shame there wasn't more.

[@nortondumont9711]

One thing this video did not mention was a week after the Savage film was in theaters “Jaws” was released and pretty much took audiences away from any other feature at the time and this had to not be good for the chances of any Doc follow-up.

[@harrylime8077]

I saw the movie ‘Man of Bronze’ at a movie theater in Wolverhampton England back in the day. I understand it was a made for tv movie in the US. Pity that it did not have sequels with great storylines, bigger budget, sterling cast etc.. It could have been a forerunner to the ‘Indiana Jones’ series.

[@TruthTellert63]

Actually, it was a feature film -- I remember seeing the trailer for it at the theater (I think I was there to see "Jaws.") However, it flopped so badly that it disappeared from theaters within weeks, & was on television in a couple of years.

[@MrWorf35]

I've never read the books, but the comics are very good at capturing the ambiance and the essence of this time period mixed with imaginative high tech. And the movie is... something.

[@spiritusmundi70]

Lmao

[@MrWorf35]

@@spiritusmundi70 In France Doc Savage is dubbed with an actor who plays with a fake lisp (in French, a "hair on the tongue" :0)) in order to push the campy meter to the max. There is a fancut of the movie out there which is pretty fine and less campy.

[@spiritusmundi70]

@@MrWorf35 I think I would still watch it. If only to see what the difference. Although I'm American I'm not ignorant of how the way the rest of the world sees us I like the idea of different views.

[@MrWorf35]

@@spiritusmundi70 You are wise.

[@dennisburgess8986]

You really should read his books! 181 plus new writers taking up the mantle

[@garyjcsizmar4636]

Wow! I read all of the books way back when! Loved the series!

[@Failedprodegy42]

Same. I love those books!

[@spiritusmundi70]

70s kid?

[@71160000]

In my 70's now but at one time I had well over a hundred doc savage paperback books. I remember him more as a tarzan figure swinging through the trees. Remember these stories are old. He was described as an imposing figure standing six feet tall. A head taller than the average person. He had high speed cars, planes, ships, etc. I loved every book and always marveled at how he had made preparations in advance for each adventure. Then I read one novel written from his viewpoint and it ruined the entire mistique. A few of the novels are available on line from an australian source. Many years back I thought that hulk hogan was the perfect person to portray doc savage even looking a bit like the book covers. I think they'll always be my favorite books and I won't even tell the story of the wagon train of gold at his beck and call.

[@jeffreyk5734]

Doc was only 6 foot in the first Novel. In subsequent stories Doc was a towering 6" 8" inches and weighed 270 pounds. He was a giant of Bronze. Ron Ely was 6"5" and weighed about 240 pounds. No small guy. When a series is finally made as promised, I hope Doc doesn't have the James Bamma Widow's Peak. The hair should look like it did in the original pulps. I would be OK with just the tiniest hint of the widow's peak, but no more.

[@kevinintheusa8984]

Doc Savage was the first real superhero and Clark Kent's name was taken from Clark Savage Jr. Man, I loved the books and I have collected 50 percent of the pulps and all of the Bantam Books with 2 to 3 copies of each one. One to read, the other to save. I was so disappointed in this movie when it came out. I went to see it a few times and it was just so bad that I now can only watch it every few years but my son laughs at it. Such a great character and I was very hopeful that we would get a new movie that is faithful to the character. Lester Dent was a very prolific writer back in the day and he had a formula for cranking these adventures out like clockwork. He wasn't going to win any awards but he was very good at keeping the action moving in each book and could keep you guessing until the end.

[@IJLook]

Did you know that Will Murray wrote some new stories from Lester Dent's notes and outlines. One contained an encounter with King Kong and two had the Shadow.I think he wrote about 20 books.

[@jeremybiwer8756]

I have this on blu-ray. Such a classic 70s movie.

[@gregnatsch8787]

I read a couple of his books and saw the movie in 75. The same year we got a new doctor in our facility, named Savage. I introduced myself and he told me, “don’t ever call me Doc” and I never did! The movie was pure camp, but So many folks took it seriously, too bad.

[@michaelmcchesney6645]

I read many of the Doc Savage novels as a kid in the 1970''s and 80's. The Ron Ely movie was OK, but it's really a role Duane Johnson was born to play. The plot of the movie follows the plot of the first book relatively closely. Savage's team is made up of 5 men, each of whom is the second greatest practitioner in their field. Doc Savage is better than each of them after training his entire life to be the peak of humanity both physically and mentally. He and his men carry "super machine pistols" that shoot anesthetic bullets. I never read any of the comics but I may have to see if they are on the Marvel or DC apps. If they do make a new Doc Savage movie, I will be there opening night.!!!

[@cha5]

I grew up with the James Bama depictions of Doc Savage and always pictured him as having a facial profile that was a weather beaten chiseled out of granite combination of a Clint Eastwood and a Johnny Cash face

[@jmen4ever257]

The actor who stared in the 1950s flash Gordon's was the model he used.

[@TruthTellert63]

@@jmen4ever257 Correct -- Steve Holland.

[@carlmorrison9789]

Oh i haven't forgotten that really fun movie. When he dodges the bullet on the ledge that was great. 😝

[@kylerogerspowers2935]

Loved the movie. Read the books and had the comic bookz to. It would be awedime if the shadow Doc and the ghost who walks teamed up. Yes sir that would be EPIC.

[@spd579]

Yes, I saw the film when it came out at a drive in. My Dad and me will still talk about it. My Grandmother read the comic's when she was in nursing school. Wild!

[@Atlantianreborn]

Ron Ely was one of my older favs.

[@TheAyeAye1]

Ragaholic told me to reject the modern fantasy and embrace the pulp. This is some of the best advice I've gotten on KZbin. To hell with Marvel and D.C.. The pre-comics pulp are mostly free and better than things that came after them.

[@atompunk5575]

Currently reading Doc Savage Tunnel Terror from 1940, reprint 1979

[@lennyfair6177]

I read the books as a kid and loved them. I had the first comic issue of The Monster Men and was angry when I couldn't get the rest because there were no comic book shops. But I'm looking forward to seeing Doc Savage again on any screen 🙂👍

[@douglasmacaulay2301]

I want to see a Doc Savage, Buckaroo Banzai crossover.

[@PhoenixLyon]

OMG. For some weird reason, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" has been on my mind lately. A crossover would be fun ✌🏻🐱

[@bigguy130]

Personally I would rather see a Buckaroo Banzai, Robocop crossover, for obvious reasons. The same actor playing both the starring roles.

[@brianknapp6215]

Ultimate team-up movie: Doc Savage, The Shadow, Buckaroo Banzai and The Phantom!!

[@theattitude]

Damn good idea. He has an analogue in the Planetary comics so that's as close as an crossover that we'll get for a while

[@theattitude]

@@bigguy130 I would like to see a Buckaroo Banzai reboot with some real enemies.

[@danielbridges7260]

My mom use to get grocery bags of paperback novels ..she loved to read..I use to sneak into those bags before she got to them and take out the Tarzan ...John Carter and of course the Doc Savage books..I loved them all..my favorite villain in the Doc series was the Tingler

[@johnmarkmcintyre4204]

I had read and collected some thirty-plus of the Bantam novels during my late grade school and junior high years in the late ‘60’s and early 70’s. They didn’t cost much at the time, but that’s where most of my allowances and Christmas money would go. I prized them and thought one day I’d own them all. Sometime while I was away at college and later away getting started in life, my parents put the paperbacks into cardboard boxes, along with some of my other treasures (fossils and arrowheads found at Boy Scout camp, tickets to professional baseball games, etc.), and when I next found them the silverfish had eaten them all. The science and technology in them were dated (although at my age at the time I wasn’t aware of much of that) but the characters were believable (unlike Superman - who I knew from the black and white serials on TV - and Batman - who I didn’t know until the ‘60’s TV show) and Doc Savage’s qualities were ones that I wanted to emulate.

[@arielbustamante9333]

Been a fan of Savage since I was a kid in the 70s

[@matthewzampogna7189]

I actually found the book because the illustration was done with one of my favorite illustrators. I don't remember which book it was but it was pretty good had to look up some words cuz it was stuff we didn't use in English anymore

[@josephmelcher1312]

I loved Doc Savage.

[@johnfroehlich2628]

I read doc savage in paperbacks, loved everyone I could get my hands on

[@paulspo]

Nice overview of Doc Savage! I'd love to see more!

[@theobolt250]

It is sooo jam packed with talk-talk-talking... how does she ever breath? 😳😨

[@vulcan-raven7394]

I also enjoyed Ron Ely as Tarzan.

[@madwitch58]

I have been a Doc Savage fan for years. I would love to see Him become popular again.

[@OGSontar]

I fondly remember reading and rereading these books. At one point, I think I had the full set.

[@Khultan]

My mom took me to the movies back in the mid 1970s and this is one of them. ENJOYED!!!

[@c.a.t.732]

It's worth noting that along with Doc's cousin Patricia, author Lester Dent created scores of other smart, brave, resourceful, independent (and, yes, beautiful) female lead characters in the stories, starting with the Mayan princess who our hero was strongly attracted to in the first novel. These weren't faint-hearted damsels in distress in need of rescue, but tough cookies in their own right. Only Doc's code of honor, where he knew his enemies would use any romantic attachment he might have to strike at him, caused him to hold himself aloof from these really interesting and attractive women.

[@mikescott9012]

I have all the bantam books that came out in the 70s loved the characters. Still waiting for a good Doc Savage movie or streaming series.

[@JohnJBrowne11209]

A character from a better time. I remember the movie and have enjoyed many of the books

[@Hayabusa0268]

Doc Savage was the first Avenger, Batman, Stark and Superman all rolled into one.

[@darrylwiggins4799]

Thank you for this.I discovered the man of bronze in the seventies by way of comics .I loved the movie and always wondered why a updated version was never made.This is a billion dollar blockbuster just waiting to happen.

[@chrisinfiesto835]

The late William Smith would’ve been the perfect Doc Savage imo..... 🤙🏽😎

[@boatingman11]

I second that.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Howie Long could have done it in the 1990s. Not now...

[@pabloide3792]

I cant be the only one going crazy by the shot of the dude flying from that punch, its excellent !!!

[@TruthTellert63]

That was Dick Durock -- one of the great movie stuntmen. (He was uncredited in this movie -- not sure why.)

[@blockmasterscott]

Doc Savage ruled!

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

I'm 68 and grew up reading those books as a kid.

[@quodnomenmihiest6283]

I'd rather just keep enjoying my old comic books and gloriously cheesy movie than have Doc Savage be brought back to life into this cesspool we have today. I shudder to think what they'd do to his character if he's brought back to film or comics.

[@vinnyc365]

Cope.

[@scottmantooth8785]

*we don't need a trans gender Doc Savage or a gender and race swapped one either...the movie was actually a lot of fun in it's own cheesy way*

[@DWNicolo]

We’ll never know until they try.

[@leroypreston2973]

I think that an altered doc savage could work if they do something with the changes like if he was gay, explore him being gay, have him into a woman, explore being a woman, have him be non-white, explore it. I don't think it's necessarily wrong to add more diversity to a franchise, just do something with it.

[@quodnomenmihiest6283]

@@leroypreston2973 Or create an all new and original swashbuckling buttpirate.

[@fredmonroe6042]

There were 4 Doc Savage books in my school library when I attended grade school. A small Christian grade school😇. They were the gateway to my science fictitious addiction 🤯😁

[@brettread6373]

When l was about 12 (1972) my Mum bless her found a big pile of Doc Savage comics in a charity shop knowing l loved comics she bought them ,cost her about 10 shillings . Which was a lot her at the time l loved them They were fun A forgotten comic Hero I had forgotten until seeing this

[@johnanthonylucock7833]

Doc Savage a far better hero than Ironman

[@Iron-Soul]

Hollywood would have to emasculate the shit out of Doc Savage for modern woke times.

[@alankohn6709]

I loved the Doc savage movie it was pure Pal; fun colourful cheesy as hell and just enjoyable. He was a good guy who was doing good. These days you have to wonder why most of the heroes bother they all seem to hate being heroes and all they want to do is brood. Fingers crossed for the TV series but can Doc defeat Wokenstein and Count Broodlar

[@Mattmurdockk431]

Planetary's Doc Brass and Tom Strong are two thinly disguised versions/homages of Doc Savage.

[@leebirdwell7783]

I love Tom Strong. Alan Moore definitely modeled him on Doc Savage

[@trence5]

Doc Brass is obvious, Tom Strong instantly brought him to mind when I saw the character and read his origin. Tom Strong was a good series.

[@jakarnilson]

And in the original Rocketeer comic, an unnamed Doc Savage was the creator of the rocket pack.

[@flatebo1]

As is Buckaroo Bonzai.

[@theattitude]

Planetary should be a streaming show. It's a crime that hasn't happened.

[@brokenbridge6316]

This was a fine video. And it's a shame more people don't remember this guy today.

[@RightURKen7]

Strength of Tarzan. Played by Tarzan in the movie.

[@memercat-dz5ms]

Basically duke nukem mixed with doomslayer