Lester Dent. The Man of Bronze. Doc Savage and His Pals in a Novel of Unusual Adventure. By Kenneth Robeson. New York: Street and Smith Publications, 1933.
Introducing Clark Savage, Jr., polymath, physician, scientist, and brilliant inventor whose physical strength and endurance equalled his intellectual achievements. A superhero before the fact, Doc Savage used his secret wealth to fight arch criminals, oppose corrupt industrialists and politicians, halt the spread of deadly diseases, discover lost races, and travel to the empty places on the map.
Lester Dent (1904–59) wrote more than 130 of the Doc Savage adventures in brisk, headlong prose. First publication in book form.
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