PHILIP JOSE FARMER AND THE WOLD NEWTON FAMILY, Continued.

Left: 1988 Sphere reprint of the original 1970 stories Lord of the Trees, and The Mad Goblin; Tarzan and Doc Savage battle the secret rulers of the world. Right: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Tarzan share an adventure during World War I. Published by Aspen Press in 1974.

The progeny of the radiation-exposed individuals at Wold Newton are the actual persons fictionalized into heroic and villainous characters these past two hundred years. Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, and Doc Savage are principal components of the Wold Newton family. Farmer wrote two "biographies," Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke, and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, which are the foundations of the concept. Other characters Farmer deduces are members of the family include master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu, Holmes antagonist Professor Moriarty, Patricia Savage (Doc's cousin), Allan Quatermain (from the H. Rider Haggard novels), Professor George Edward Challenger (from Conan Doyle's The Lost World), Mr. Moto, Raymond Chandler's philosophical private detective Philip Marlowe, and James Bond.

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