Superhero-heavy comics blog Smash Pages has a new interview with Will Murray, mostly on Doc Savage. Black Gate has Will Murray on Doc Savage. I hadn’t realised he had published a 455-page Writings in Bronze ebook on Doc Savage in 2012. It seems to be well regarded and Murray had access to the Lester Dent archives. More of a compendium than a book of academic essays it seems…

“there’s more information on the history of Doc Savage than most Doc fans even knew existed. From Murray’s earliest fanzine writings to his latest commentaries on the fascmile reprints of Doc Savage magazine”

It’s good to know there are serious writings about Doc Savage out there, as I still have fond memories of him from the oversize Marvel b&w albums from the 1970s and 80s, and I also read and very much enjoyed a half-dozen or more of the books in the early 1980s.

I see this book was followed by the survey A History of the Doc Savage Adventures (2018) and the newly annotated The Savage Dyaries: The collected Doc Savage writings of Dafydd Neal Dyar, Volume 1 1979-1984 (2018), and there may be more.

Difficult to find more without digging though. Because Amazon spams with unwanted Shadow and Spider stuff in the search results — even when you’re specifically searching for “Doc Savage” in quotes.