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From today's featured article Doc Savage was an American pulp magazine published from 1933 to 1949 by Street & Smith. The lead character was Clark Savage, a scientist and adventurer. Lester Dent wrote most of the novels that appeared in the magazine, often using the alias "Kenneth Robeson". A few dozen more novels were ghost-written by writers hired either by Dent or by Street & Smith. Dent's work was full of inventive ideas, and ranged across multiple genres. Science fiction elements were common, but there were also detective novels, westerns, fantasies, and straightforward adventures. Dent worked with Henry Ralston and (until 1943) John Nanovic, two editors at Street & Smith, to plot most of the novels. Covers were painted by Walter Baumhofer until 1936, then by R. G. Harris and later by Emery Clarke. The magazine was successful, reaching a circulation of 300,000, but was shut down when Street & Smith left the pulp magazine field completely in 1949. The novels were later reprinted as paperbacks. (Full article...)

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