The Mountain Monster (Doc Savage #84)

About this book

The Doc Savage Magazine was printed by Street & Smith from March 1933 to the summer of 1949 to capitalize on the success of the Shadow magazine and followed by the original Avenger in September 1939. In all 181 issues were published in various entries and alternative titles. Doc Savage became known to more contemporary readers when Bantam Books began reprinting the individual magazine novels in 1964 this time with covers by artist James Bama that featured a bronze-haired bronze-skinned Doc Savage with an exaggerated widows peak usually wearing a torn khaki shirt and under the by-line "Kenneth Robeson". The stories were not reprinted in chronological order as originally published though they did begin with the first adventure The Man of Bronze. By 1967 Bantam was publishing once a month until 1990 when all 181 original stories (plus an unpublished novel The Red Spider) had run their course. Author Will Murray produced seven more Doc Savage novels for Bantam Books from Lester Dents original outlines. Bantam also published a novel by Philip Jos Farmer Escape From Loki (1991) which told the story of how in World War I Doc met the men who would become his five comrades. Clark Savage Jr. first appeared in March 1933 in the first issue of Doc Savage Magazine. Because of the success of the Shadow who had his own pulp magazine the publishers Street & Smith quickly launched this pulp title. Unlike the Shadow Clark Savage "Doc" to his friends had no special powers but was raised from birth by his father and other scientists to become one of the most perfect human beings in terms of strength intelligence and physical abilities. Doc Savage set up base on the 86th floor of a world-famous New York skyscraper (implied but never outright stated as the Empire State Building; Phillip Jose Farmer in his Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life gives good evidence that this is likely the case). Doc Savage fights against evil with the assistance of the "Fabulous Five".