Talk:Doc Savage

message: I think that this page should have an image of Doc Savage on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.100.91 (talk) 19:39, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Early text

message: There is a book called The City of Gold and Lepers. The main character is ridiculously similar to Doc Savage (his name is Doc Ardan, he is a surgeon/inventor/explorer and he fights a mad Oriental criminal mastermind in an undiscovered city) but the book was first published in 1911. Could this have inspired Doc Savage? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.113.15 (talk) 18:03, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, probably not, as the book was published in France.  There IS another early pulp character that some thing was more of an inspiration.  It was reprinted in a pulp fan mag a few years back, with a cover by Steranko.  Will have to pull it out of my collection.  --Emb021 22:55, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One of the biggest inspirations was the real life soldier-spy-adventurer-engineer-writer-etc Col. Richard Henry Savage, there is a write-up about him by Will Murrey in the two-part story 'Doom Dynasty' put out by Millenium Comics (which also features obscure 19th century villain Doctor Nikolai!). -- LamontCranston 04:45, 08 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  French Doc Savage? 

message: This paragraph certainly doesn't belong in the intro; maybe a place can be found for it later down, but it might make more sense as its own article.  The topic of the paragraph would not seem to be the character Doc Savage, but the novel The Red Spider. Anyway, I'm parking it here for now.
:The Red Spider was a novel written about the Cold War with Russia in April 1948 by Lester Dent and was lost. The manuscript was located amongst Dent's papers when it was found out to exist. The story was killed in 1948 by editorial decision though both Dent and the editors liked it. It finally saw print in Bantam, number 95 in their Doc Savage series (July 1979). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nareek (talk • contribs) 21:18, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I dropped it in the expanded Publication History section. Chuck Welch — Preceding undated comment added 01:30, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red Spider 

message: See Talk:Bran Mak Morn#Ownership edits. Nareek 12:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ownership edits

message: I've removed this bit here from the article:
:*It cannot but help be suspected that Sapper's Bulldog Drummond had a helping hand in the origin of Doc Savage. Over ten years before, Drummond and his gang (from WWI as were Doc's men), helped him fight super-criminals. Drummond even had the equivalent of "The Clinic" where Doc sent crooks. In the Black Gang where mysterious crime fighters wear garb very reminiscent of The Shadow, also a decade later), they turn out to be Drummond and his men who take criminals to an offshore island and give them a real good beating till they promise to give up their life of crime. The cover for The Black Gang book could be mistaken for a Shadow cover, as in black cloak and hat, a two gun figure is splashed across the cover.
Lack of punctuation and improper use of punctuation — in conjunction with an unsourced supposition that probably qualifies as original research or subjective opinion — make this very hard to read and understand.  There may be something here of value, so removing it here for someone else to "fix".  I can't make sense of it. 12.22.250.4 22:03, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can have a bash at this, but when I'm less tired! _> MonstaPro:Talk 00:28, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excised from '''Cultural references''' 

message: It might interest some here that Patricia Savage is a stub. Perhaps move the information into this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.129.187 (talk) 21:22, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Patricia Savage Stub

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Millmob2.jpg

message: Doc was created by Street and Smith’s Henry W. Ralston, with help from editor John L. Nanovic.  Not by Lester Dent.  74.12.201.147 (talk) 15:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creator 

message: Dictionary: Use one. No, I am not signing and I am not taking time to mess with it myself.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.184.80.30 (talk) 21:54, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Nick-name"? should be "nickname" 

message: Much of this article reads like a fan's loving, uncritical essay. Way too much goes uncited -- books given without page numbers of the claim, quotes without sources, etc. The article needs much substantive footnoting. It also cannot keep containing POV judgments such as "a mature, naturalistic bent" unless they're the opinion of a recognized and cited reliable-source critic/author. -- Tenebrae (talk) 12:58, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have every book. Put some fact tags where you'd like a page reference and I'll see what I can do. Czolgolz (talk) 13:43, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Had already done so -- do word search for phrase "page number?" --Tenebrae (talk) 14:20, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: POV and too much uncited

message: hand-held automatic weapons were around (in the 20's if not earlier) before Savage was written.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.239.21.74 (talk) 23:49, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: hand-held automatic weapons

message: I'm think of removing those tags, because tagging an article without saying anything on the talk page drives me crazy.  For instance, it says, "Its introduction provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject."  I've just read the intro, and I have NO IDEA what the tagger's problem is.  What do others say? Carlo (talk) 18:37, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tags

message: A character named Axel Brass, based on "Doc Savage", is a prominent supporting character in Warren Ellis and John Cassaday's "Planetary" comic book. This could be referenced in the article and linked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.201.148.69 (talk) 00:43, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planetary 

message: In the info box at the top of the article it lists Clark Savage as being an "alter ego". AFAIK, Doc makes no secret of his real name. It's not a secret alternate identity such as Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, etc. He only has one identity. Docsavage20 (talk) 13:49, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clark Savage, Jr. isn't an "alter ego" 

message: Doc Savage sounds so similar to Buckaroo Banzai that I can't help but wonder if this character was a major influence? I wonder if anyone might be able to find evidence of this. MarkoOhNo (talk) 10:20, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influence on Buckaroo Banzai? 

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message: In the main article, there are many cases of "citatation needed". As the information is taken from the original pulps, as any Doc Savage fan would know, is that really necessary? (171.7.90.250 (talk) 09:34, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation needed