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"Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip José Farmer - May/1973

Doubleday edition published May 1973 and August 1973. Printed in paperback by Bantam

Books, July 1975. It doesn't appear that this will be reprinted in the near future and so it has been

electronically-archived. It may be read only for your personal interest and may not be otherwise

duplicated or published for profit.

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Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life

by Philip José Farmer (May/1973)

{limited editing/embellishing and electronic formatting by 'StealthSkater' - December/2010}

CONTENTS

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1. The Fourfold Vision

2. Lester Dent, the Revelator from Missouri

3. Son of Storm and Child of Destiny

4. The Bronze Hero of Technopolis and Exotica

5. The Skyscraper

6. The 86 th Floor

7. the Hidalgo Trading Company and Its Craft

8. the Crime College

9. the Fortress of Solitude

10. Monk, the Ape in Wolf's Clothing

11. Ham, the Eagle with a Cane

12. Habeas Corpus and Chemistry

13. Renny, Door-buster and "Holy Cow"- er

14. Neoverbalist Johnny

15. Long Tom, "Wizard of the Juice" and Misogynist

16. Patricia Savage, Lady Auxiliary and Bronze Knockout

17. Doc the Gadgeteer

18. Some of the Great Villains and Their World-Threatening Gadgets

Addendum

A. The Fabulous Family Tree of Doc Savage

B. Chronology

C. List of Doc Savage Stories

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Acknowledgments

I am especially grateful to Condé Nast Publications Inc. for permission to write this biography of Dr.

Clark Savage, Jr.

I thank Random House Inc. for permission to use the extract from In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

I owe Jack Cordes much. For without the loan of his complete collection of the Doc Savage

magazines, this project would have been impossible.

I thank the main reference department staff of the Peoria Public Library for their cooperation and

efficiency in answering my many questions on many subjects. The staff includes the Mses Jane Burch,

Betty Roberson, Nona Dutton, Bernhardine Gagneron, Elizabeth Hilderbrand, Velma Gorsage, Alma

Rosser, Gloria Shoup, and Mildred Ruch.

Gratitude is due Mrs. Lester Dent for her time and information during my 2 visits to her home in La

Plata, Missouri.

I thank Mr. Lawrence A. Wien for permission to print his letter replying to my request for

information about the 86 th floor of the Empire State Building. I am grateful to Judy-Lynn del Rey for

her efforts in ascertaining the identity of the true owner of the Empire State Building.

About the Author

Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1981, Philip José Farmer has long been recognized as one of the

foremost writers in the field of science-fiction and fantasy. He has also written 2 biographies: Doc

Savage - His Apocalyptic Life and Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke .

His most famous novel -- To Your Scattered Bodies Go -- won the Hugo Award for the best science-

fiction novel of 1972 and initiated his Riverworld trilogy, soon followed by the second book The

Fabulous Riverboat .

Some of Mr. Farmer's other recent titles include Flesh , Timestop! , Behind the Walls of Terra , Lorg

Tyger, Night of Light , The Stone God Awakens , and The Wind Whales of Ishael .

Mr. Farmer presently makes his home in Peoria, Illinois.

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Call up the fiends.

-- Prometheus Unbound

But first I mean

To exercise him in the Wilderness;

There he shall first lay down the rudiments

Of his great warfare, ere I send him forth

To conquer Sin and Death, the two grand foes …

-- Paradise Regained

Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate

I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,

And many a Knot unravell'd by the Road;

But no the Master-knot of Human Fate.

-- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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1 - The Fourfold Vision

1 -- The Fourfold Vision

I could find out how the weather was back on Friday, February 15, 1933 by checking an almanac.

But it doesn't matter whether it was cloudy or snowing or clear-and-sunshiny. Because that day will

always be bursting with a golden light.

That was the day that the first issue of Doc Savage magazine hit the stands. That is the day when I

first saw the Man of Bronze ; put down a dime (which I was lucky to have in that depth-of-Depression

time); and walked out of Schmidt's drugstore quivering with anticipation.

That day is indeed golden. Much like the day when the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson rowed

up the Isis with 3 little girls and there composed for their pleasure a story about Alice and a white rabbit

and a hole which led to Earth's center. (It was actually rainy that day. But Dodgson remembered it as "a

golden afternoon".)

That is the day I accompanied Doc and his 5 eccentric aides on the first of his 181 supersagas. It

was a long journey, lasting until the summer of 1949. And it ended -- sadly -- where Alice's adventures

began. In the Earth's center.

I was 20 days past by 15 th birthday when I first saw the Bronze Man with the strange golden e y e s in

his torn shirt clutching a little black idol and shadowed by 3 Mayan warriors peering from behind an

ancient Mayan pillar.

I never knew Lester Dent. But 39 years after my first encounter with Doc Savage, I met the widow

the man who had written most of the supersagas under the publishing house name of "Kenneth

Robeson". Mrs. Lester Dent told me and my companion Jack Cordes that the Doc Savage had been

written with the 15-year-old male in mind. It was presumed by the publishers that the majority of the

readers (at first, anyway) would be near that age group. I chuckled and replied that Jack and I still loved

Doc. So we obviously hadn't grown up yet.

This in a sense is true. There is a 15-year-old in my brain and he loves Doc Savage. There is also a

7-year-old who still loves Billy Whiskers; a 9-year-old who still loves Oz and the heroes of ancient Troy

and Achaea; a 10-year-old who still loves John Carter of Mars, Tarzan, Rudolf Rassendyll, King Arthur,

Og, Son of Fire, Umslopogaas and Galazi, the Ancient Mariner, Captain Nemo, Captain Gulliver, Tom

Sawyer, Hiawatha, Jim Hawking, and Sherlock Holmes.

"Smitty's" drugstore was half-a-block if you cut down from alley from the little old white house (it

had once been a country school) at 609 Hanssler Place, Peroria, Illinois. Smitty's stood on Sheridan

Road and Loucks Avenue on a triangular boat-shaped intersection. It was truly a vessel for me. One

which I boarded for many a fabulous voyage down the Mississippi of a boy's mind. It was here that I

came across my first science-fiction magazine -- the glowing first issues of Air Wonder and Science

Wonder published by Hugo Gernsback and illustrated by Frank Paul.

The Gernsback magazines came out in 1929. In 1931 amidst the odors of ice cream and chocolate

sauce, I first saw the dark broad-brimmed slouch hat and the pale burning-eyed hawk face of the

Shadow . And it was here that I dipped my line into the waters and brought up the fabulous Argosy

magazine once-a-week.

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