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JOURNAL OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE INTRODUCTION PAGE 54

DOC SAVAGE, Continued.

1934 house ad for Doc Savage pulp magazine; see Jim Steranko's History of Comics, published by Supergraphics.

One of Doc's talents is the invention of gadgets that rival anything James Bond's Q offers. Doc looms over the Indiana Jones character like a ghostly grandfather. Superman? Clark Savage Jr.---Clark Kent. The Man of Bronze---the Man of Steel. Superman's Antarctic Fortress of Solitude? Doc's is in the Arctic. Pulp magazine advertisements promoted Doc as "Superman." Batman's super crime-lab? Doc's is on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. Doc Savage is one of the original twentieth century Super-Heroes that appeared behind Tarzan of the Apes, and one of the early founders of Modern Mythology.

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