Some of the issues did include a "Cover by" credit. And some others have a signature on the cover. There are only a few where there is some question. Hence my article at DocSavage.Org. I hope we eventually can make firm those attributions.
There are some questions regarding the cover artists for these Doc Savage pulp covers. What are your thoughts?
I’ve grouped the covers in question by who I propose was the actual cover artist. In a couple of cases, I haven’t hazarded a guess on the artist’s name.
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Bantam was having some issues with the Doc Savage line about that time.
I believe that to be a cover by Modest Stein.
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The cover for Bronze Gazette #99, February 2026
(Yes, it's a homage to that Lampoon cover. And that is Mr. Brooks hand on the gun. Doc Savage would never use a gun...on a pig.)
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Black spines were black spines through the different printings.* Those few that were released with a white spine were never reprinted with a black spine. The odd white spines have irritated many a Doc Savage collector. :)
* the placement of the Bantam logo did move sometimes.
At one point, that novel was considered to have sold the most reprint copies.
Kunstler got the job as James Bama had left on his honeymoon.
Artist Scotty Phillips once postulated that this Pfeiffer painting was scheduled for The Stone Man, but as the book was delayed it ended up used on another Bantam release.
Before comic books or cartoons there were pulp magazines. My latest audiobook profiles the greatest pulp hero of them all, Doc Savage!
That's just where Kenneth Robeson said he lived. It was a honeypot. His main place was in the Chrysler Building.
I mean, it's obvious. What hero announces where he lives? That just causes too many villains to try to catch him asleep.
Like the time they flew a plane right into the side of the ESB.
Congratulations. Those are some clean covers!
Have I got a book for you... :)
The cover for Bronze Gazette 98 (Feb 2026): Street and Smith Editor John Nanovic and author Lester Dent discuss the plot of a Doc Savage pulp.
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Only in the respect that Epstein would have talked about him to others trying to find Doc Savage's weakness. Which, of course, wasn't the kind of weakness Epstein could exploit.
Had Doc Savage gone to the island, Epstein would have gone to the Crime College.
If you want to read again one of those old Doc Savage novels, many have already entered the public domain in Canada:
www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?...
Well, Bantam Books reprinted Doc Savage. That company ended up republishing all 181 Doc Savage pulp novels, plus a few new ones written by Philip Jose Farmer and Will Murray. In the last few years Conde Nast tried to relaunch Doc Savage with books by James Patterson, but they were not well received.
While Doc & Rad had some similarities, it wasn't their publisher. "Paperback Library" was owned by Coronet Communications & soon after that novel was printed they were sold to Kinney National who then bought Warner Bros. & numerous other media companies & then spun them off as Warner Communications
Which announcement?
:) Thanks. I've been wanting to do that cover for years. I figured 99 was the time. :)
I would stay away from that. Except for 3-4 pulp novels, Doc didn't wear a skullcap. And when it did it was made with hair over metal.
People got the idea Doc often wore a skullcap because of how his hair was usually described: "The hair was straight, and lay down tightly as a metal skullcap.'
I will make sure to add an order link as soon as it is available.
Fans of Doc Savage have always felt a kinship with the Old Man. His stories have been collected in a book due very soon from author William Preston. Fans of Asimov's, F&SF, and Analog are sure to recognize the name.
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Republic entered into negotiations with Street & Smith in 1944, but nothing came of it.
In the late-1950s, Ramrod Productions made a play to do a TV series, but that also failed to go anywhere.
Hey, Doc Savage! Bronze Gazette 98/99 is out of the starting gate.
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Modest Stein was the cover artist for many Doc Savage pulps. #docsavage #pulp #adventure
Most probably with Doc and Johnny. Especially noted in the opening of the film.
I read Long Tom as asexual. Doc could be read the same way until the era when S&S tried to "humanize" him.
Some have also made Monk/Ham stories.
Just a slight note: Directed by Michael Anderson and Produced by George Pal. It was Pal's last film.
And, yes, way too silly.
Charles Moran was the second editor for Doc Savage Magazine. His tenure was a just a few months, but he made a huge change in the direction of the magazine.
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