DC Comics’ Doc Savage information
–1990: DC series ends; no further information about Doc in the modern era
•How did DC Comics get their information?
–Current news reports, but DC also knew about more private details
–Doc Savage had a history of working with publishers to tell “fictionalized” versions of his real-life adventures
•He did this in the 1930s-40s with Street & Smith, publishers of the Doc Savage pulp magazines
–Doc must have contracted with DC Comics to tell his story, with a few details and dates altered.
•“The Heritage of Doc Savage”
–4 issue mini-series, 1987-88
–Doc Savage (Doctor Clark Savage, Jr.) disappeared in the 1940s
–Left behind a pregnant wife, a Mayan princess from the original pulp novels
–Son, Clark Savage III, killed in 1966; left behind pregnant girlfriend
–Doc’s grandson, Clark Savage IV, born 1967
–Doc Savage returns to Earth in 1987, un-aged, after being trapped in inter-dimensional rift for 40 years
–1988-90: Doc Savage, grandson, and new team fight crime and have adventures
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