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This is an outgrowth of a list I kept, as I collected the Bantam books. While I don't have all the information that's exhaustively supplied in Graphitti Designs' concise list (reprinted in the April 1996 issue of Baby Boomer Collectibles magazine), I have included Philip José Farmer's chronology -- both the numbers he would no doubt assign to the stories, plus the time period during which he theorizes these stories ACTUALLY happened (He necessarily puts them before their publication date, giving Lester Dent a chance to record and write them, and then places them, paying attention to time cues in the stories. Where possible, he keeps them in order). My list was created with the first edition of His Apocalyptic Life, then updated with the Bantam edition. I see Farmer initially included Land of Always-Night, The Monsters, and The Red Terrors, then went back and decided they were fiction and couldn't possibly have happened. (Land of Long Ju-Ju and World's Fair Goblin, he's always considered fiction -- World's Fair Goblin because the issue came out when the Fair started, so there was no way to have an adventure and get it written and published by then.)

I have also included notes on who among the supporting cast appears in each story--this information gleaned from Larry Widen and Chris Miracle's excellent Doc Savage: Arch Enemy of Evil which includes synopses of every pulp story, along with b&w reproductions of every pulp and paperback cover, with some foreign and comic book covers thrown in. (Wow!)

My concern in collecting and reading was never the number of each story, but what book the story was in, so omnibus stories have the omnibus number (indicated with a following close-parenthesis) and then a number representing the position within that book (1-4 or 1-5). With the double volume stories, I have followed the story number with a "+" if it was the first story in the book, or a "-" if it was the second. Up front I have Street and Smith's volume numbers -- this could come in handy if you are collecting the pulps.

Asterisks next to a writers' name indicates that Lester Dent helped out in some way with the story (usually rewriting).

Please, please, please contact me with any corrections or additions to this list.

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S&S B  S&S  Title                             Bantam                          Farmer
vol #  Date (& Author if not Dent)    Cast   PubDate  Note                    #:Dates

       1933
1   1  Mar  The Man of Bronze         MHRJL   64 Oct  "Kenneth Roberts"byline 1:3-4/31
    8  Apr  The Land of Terror        MHRJL   65 Aug  John Nanovic, editor    2:4-5/31
   68  May  Quest of the Spider       MHRJL   72 May  Bantam: Pfeiffer starts 3:6/31
    4  Jun  The Polar Treasure        MHRJL   65 Apr  1sts: Mayan/brain op.  17:6-7/32
   19  Jul  Pirate of the Pacific     MHRJL   67 Sep                         18:7-8/32
   17  Aug  The Red Skull             MHRJL   67 May                          4:6/31
2   6  Sep  The Lost Oasis            MHRJL   65 Apr  Doc Savage Club starts  8:8/31
   18  Oct  The Sargasso Ogre         MHRJL   67 Jul                          9:9/31
   22  Nov  The Czar of Fear          MHRJL   68 Mar  1st "Hidalgo Trading"  10:10/31
   10  Dec  The Phantom City          MHRJL   66 Mar  1st Habeus Corpus      12:3/32

       1934 
    5  Jan  Brand of the Werewolf     MHRJLP  65 Apr  1st Pat; Docs 1st kiss 13:4/32
   43  Feb  The Man Who Shook t Earth MHRJL   69 Dec  Johnny's Eye fixed     21:12/32
3   3  Mar  Meteor Menace             MHRJL   64 Oct                         22:7-8/33
    7  Apr  The Monsters              MHRJL   65 Jun  PJF later says fiction  5:6/31
   69  May  The Mystery on the Snow   MHRJL   72 Jul  1st bigwords by Johnny 11:11/31
   80  Jun  The King Maker            MHRJL   75 Feb  Dent rewrites entirely  6:7/31
            (Harold Davis*)
    2  Jul  The Thousand-Headed Man   MHRJL   64 Oct                          7:8/31
   35  Aug  The Squeaking Goblin      MHRJL   69 Apr                         23:6/34
4  11  Sep  Fear Cay                  MHRJLP  66 May  2nd Pat Savage         24:6/34
   26  Oct  Death in Silver           MH   P  68 Jul  Python Isle follows    25:7/34
   44  Nov  The Sea Magician          MH J    70 Jan                         26:8/34
   31  Dec  The Annihilist            MHR  P  68 Dec                         28:10/34

       1935 
    9  Jan  The Mystic Mullah         MHRJL   65 Nov                         29:11/34
   38  Feb  Red Snow                  MH   P  69 Jul                         31:12/34
5  13  Mar  Land of Always-Night      MHRJL   66 Sep  PJF later says fiction 30:11-12/34
            (W.Ryerson Johnson*)
   16  Apr  The Spook Legion          MH      67 Mar                         19:8/32
   20  May  The Secret in the Sly     MHRJL   67 Nov                         20:10/32
   88  Jun  The Roar Devil            MHRJ    77 May                         15:6/32
   12  Jul  Quest of Qui              MHRJ    66 Jul  Method of Phys.Dev.    16:6/32
   70  Aug  Spook Hole                MH JLP  72 Sep                         34:5/35
6  60  Sep  The Majii                 MH  L   71 May  Jade Ogre follows      33:3/35
   32  Oct  Dust of Death (Davis*)    MH  L   69 Jan  1st Chemistry          32:1/35
   15  Nov  Murder Melody             MHRJL   67 Jan                         35:5/35
            (Lawrence Donovan)
   14  Dec  The Fantastic Island(WRJ*)MHRJL   66 Dec                         27:10/34

       1936 
   71  Jan  Murder Mirage (Donovan)   MHRJLP  72 Nov                         40:7/35
   27  Feb  Mystery Under the Sea     MHR     68 Aug                         41:9-10/35
7  72  Mar  The Metal Master          MHRJL   73 Jan  White Eyes follows     43:10/35
   45  Apr  The Men Who Smiled        MHRJL   70 Feb                         36:5/35
            No More (Donovan)
   73  May  The Seven Agate Devils    MH      73 Mar                         44:11/35
   51  Jun  The Haunted Ocean(Donovan)MHRJL   70 Aug                         45:11/35
   76  Jul  The Black Spot (Donovan)  MHRJLP  74 Apr                         37:6/35
   46  Aug  The Midas Man             MH J    70 Mar                         38:6/35
8  21  Sep  Cold Death (Donovan)      MHR L   68 Jan  Last Baumhofer cover   39:6/35
   77  Oct  The South Pole Terror     MHRJL   74 Feb                         46:11/35-2/36
   36  Nov  Resurrection Day          MHRJL   69 May  RG Harris covers       47:2-3/36
   52  Dec  The Vanisher              MH      70 Sep                         42:10/35

       1937 
   47  Jan  Land of Long Juju(Donovan)MHRJ    70 Apr                         48:fiction
   74  Feb  The Derrick Devil         MHRJL   73 Jul  Renny in Love          49:4/36
9  53  Mar  The Mental Wizard         MHRJL   70 Oct                         63:12/36
   33  Apr  The Terror in the Navy    MHRJLP  69 Feb                         50:4-5/36
   34  May  Mad Eyes (Donovan)        MHRJL   69 Mar  Meth of PhysDev ends   51:5/36
   75  Jun  The Land of Fear(Davis*)  MH      73 Nov  Jujitsu backup starts  52:5/36
   54  Jul  He Could Stop the World   MH JLP  70 Nov                         53:5/36
            (Donovan)
   89  Aug  Ost [The Magic Island]    MHRJL   77 Jul  Bantam:Larkin starts   54:5-6/36
10 48  Sep  The Feathered Octopus     MHRJL   70 May  L Tom/Johnny in love   14:4/32
   28  Oct  Repel [The Deadly Dwarf]  MHRJL   68 Sep  Forgttn Realm preceeds 55:6-8/36
   49  Nov  The Sea Angel             MHRJL   70 Jun  WhistlngWraith follows 56:8-9/36
   55  Dec  The Golden Peril(Davis*)  MHRJL   70 Dec  Man of Bronze Sequel   57:9/36

       1938 
   61  Jan  The Living-FireMenace(Dav)MHRJL   71 Jun  Emery Clarke covers    58:9/36
   84  Feb  The MountainMonster(Davis)MH  L   76 Sep  Doc Savage Award       73:7/37
11 50  Mar  Devil on the Moon         MHRJLP  70 Jul                         59:9/36
   62  Apr  The Pirates Ghost         MHRJL   71 Jul                         69:3/37
   64  May  The Motion Menace(Johnson)MH  LP  71 Sep                         61:10/36
   63  Jun  The Submarine Mystery     MH      71 Aug                         62:11-12/36
   56  Jul  The Giggling Ghosts       MHRJL   70 Jan                         81:3/38
   58  Aug  The MunitionsMaster(Davis)MH  L   71 Mar                         60:10/36
12 83  Sep  The Red Terrors           MHRJL   76 Jul  Bantam: Boris starts   80:12/37-3/38
   23  Oct  Fortress of Solitude      MH  L   68 Apr  John Sunlight          75:8/37
   65  Nov  The Green Death (Davis)   MHRJ    71 Nov  Method of Self Defense 64:12/36
   79  Dec  The Devil Genghis         MHRJ    74 Dec  John Sunlight returns  77:10/37

       1939 
   66  Jan  Mad Mesa                  MHRJL   72 Jan  now 45-50,000 words    86:7-8/38
   59  Feb  The Yellow Cloud          MHR LP  71 Apr  Patricia,Inc.intro     65:2/37
13 67  Mar  The Freckled Shark        MH J    72 Mar  Bantam:Last Bama       66:2/37
   39  Apr  Worlds Fair Goblin        MH  L   69 Aug                         67:fiction
            (William G.Bogart*)
   42  May  The Gold Ogre             MH      69 Nov  End of Physical Depts  84:6/38
   30  Jun  The Flaming Falcons       MH      68 Nov                         76:9/37
   41  Jul  MerchantsofDisaster(Davs*)MHRJL   69 Oct                         68:2/37
   78  Aug  The Crimson Serpent(Davs*)MHR     74 Oct                         70:4/37
14 57  Sep  Poison Island             MHRJ P  71 Feb  Bill Barnes backup     87:9-10/38
   81  Oct  The Stone Man             MHR L   76 Mar                         79:11/37
   37  Nov  Hex (Bogart*)             MHRJ    69 Jun                         83:6/38
   40  Dec  The Dagger in the Sky     MHRJL   69 Sep  114pp/35,000 wds       88:10-11/38

       1940 
   29  Jan  The Other World           MHRJL   68 Oct                         82:3/38
   86  Feb  The Angry Ghost(Bogart*)  MHR L   77 Jan                         85:7/38
15 87  Mar  The Spotted Men(Bogart*)  MHR  P  77 Mar                         71:4/37
   82  Apr  The Evil Gnome            MHRJ    76 May                         78:10/37
   85  May  The Boss of Terror        MH  L   76 Nov                         72:4/37
   92  Jun  The Awful Egg             MHRJL   78 Oct                         95:8/39
   90  Jul  The Flying Goblin(Bogart) MHRJL   77 Sep                         92:6/39
   93  Aug  Tunnel Terror(Bogart)     MHR     79 Feb                         74:7/37
16 91  Sep  The Purple Dragon(Davis*) MHR     78 Jul                         94:8/39
  123+ Oct  Devils of the Deep(Davis) MHRJL   84 Dec                         93:7-8/39
  6)1  Nov  The Awful Dynasty(Bogart) MHRJLP  88 Aug  LTom admits loves Pat  89:4-5/39
  7)1  Dec  The Men Vanished          MH J    88 Nov                         90:5/39

       1941 
   25  Jan  The Devils Playground     MHRJL   68 Jun                        101:6/40
            (Alan Hathway)
  12)1 Feb  Bequest of Evil (Bogart)  MHR L   90 Jun                        104:8/40
17 1)1 Mar  The All-White Elf         MHRJ    86 Aug                         97:3/40
  117+ Apr  The Golden Man            MHRJL   84 Feb  Info about Doc's birth 96:9-12/39
   8)2 May  The Pink Lady             MHRJL   89 Mar                         91:6/39
  124- Jun  The Headless Man(Hathway) MHR L   84 Dec                        105:9/40
   24  Jul  The Green Eagle           MHRJL   68 May                        102:6/40
   4)1 Aug  Mystery Island            MHRJL   87 Oct                        103:7/40
18 2)1 Sep  The Mindless Monsters     MHRJL   87 Jan                         98:3/40
            (Hathway)
   9)1 Oct  Birds of Death            MHRJLP  89 Jul                         99:4/40
   9)2 Nov  The Invisible Box Murders MHRJLP  89 Jul                        100:6/40
  118- Dec  Peril in the North        MHRJLP  84 Feb                        106:11/40

       1942
   2)2 Jan  The Rustling Death(Hathwy)MHRJL   87 Jan                        108:5/41
   4)3 Feb  Men of Fear               MHRJLP  87 Oct                        113:9/41
1910)2 Mar  The Too-Wise Owl          MHRJL   89 Nov  Ham's brother         114:9/41
   6)2 Apr  The Magic Forest(Bogart*) MHR L   88 Aug                        107:3-4/41
  115+ May  Pirate Isle                 RJL   83 Jul                        110:7/41
  116- Jun  The Speaking Stone        MHRJL   83 Jul                        111:7/41
  112- Jul  The Man Who Fell Up       MHRJLP  82 Jun                        112:8/41
  121+ Aug  The Three Wild Men        MH      84 Oct                        120:5/42
20122- Sep  The Fiery Menace          MH  L   84 Oct                        124:6/42
  119+ Oct  The Laugh of Death        MHRJLP  84 Jun  Last Fortess          109:6/41
  105+ Nov  They Died Twice           MHRJL   81 Jul                        115:10/41
  10)1 Dec  The Devils Black Rock     MHRJL   89 Jun                        116:10/41

       1943 
  102- Jan  The Time Terror           MH J P  81 Jan                        119:5/42
  10)2 Feb  Waves of Death            MHRJLP  89 Nov                        128:8/42
21108- Mar  The Black, Black Witch    MHR  P  81 Oct                        130:10/42
  120- Apr  The King of Terror        MH      84 Jun                        131:11/42
  113+ May  The Talking Devll         MHR L   82 Dec                        117:4/42
   1)2 Jun  The Running Skeletons     MHRJL   86 Aug                        118:4/42
   96  Jul  Mystery on Happy Bones    MHRJ    79 Oct                        125:7/42
   8)1 Aug  The Mental Monster        MH JL   89 Mar                        126:7/42
22 99+ Sep  Hell Below                MHRJLP  80 Oct                        127:7-8/42
  125+ Oct  The Goblins               MH      85 Mar                        121:6/42
  126- Nov  The Secret of the Su      MHRJLP  85 Mar                        122:6/42
   3)1 Dec  The Spook of Grandpa Eben MH      87 Jun                        123:6/42

       1944 
  111+ Jan  According to Plan         MHR     82 Jun  Digest Sized,132 pp   129:10/42
            of a One-Eyed Mystic
  110- Feb  Death Had Yellow Eyes     MH J    82 Jan  Charles Moran, ed     132:3/43
2313)1 Mar  The Derelict of SkullShoalMHR     90 Oct  "Lester Dent" byline  138:9/43
  103+ Apr  The Whisker of Hercules   MHRJL   81 Apr  LTom only on phone    135:6/43
   3)3 May  The Three Devils          MHRJ    87 Jun  Renny in love         134:4/43
  101+ Jun  The Pharaohs Ghost        MH JL   81 Jan                        139:11/43
  104- Jul  The Man Who Was Scared    MH      81 Apr  Last Chemistry        136:6/43
  109+ Aug  The Shape of Terror       MH      82 Jan  William DeGrouchy, ed 140:12/43
24 8)3 Sep  Weird Valley              MH      89 Mar                        133:3/43
  107+ Oct  Jiu San                   MH      81 Oct                        144:3/44
   97+ Nov  Satan Black               MHR     80 Jul                        137:6/43
  100- Dec  The Lost Giant            MH      80 Oct                        141:1/44

       1945 
   94  Jan  The Hate Genius           MH      79 Jun  Doc captures Hitler   142:1/44
            (Retitled: Violent Night)
   3)4 Feb  Strange Fish              MH      87 Jun                        148:9/44
25114- Mar  The Ten Ton Snakes        M R     82 Dec  emotional Doc         149:11/44
   98- Apr  Cargo Unknown             MHR     80 Jul  emotional Renny       147:8/44
   4)2 May  Rock Sinister             MH      87 Oct  Last Habeus Corpus    143:2/44
   7)3 Jun  The Terrible Stork        MH      88 Nov  introspective Doc     145:4/44
   2)3 Jul  King Joe Cay                      87 Jan  Doc solo              146:6/44
   9)3 Aug  The Wee Ones              MH      89 Jul                        152:5or6/45
26 9)4 Sep  Terror Takes 7            MH      89 Jul  HTC warehouse"unused" 153:6/45
   2)4 Oct  The Thing That Pursued            87 Jan  Doc uses firearm      159:10/45
   8)4 Nov  Trouble on Parade                 89 Mar                        158:8/45
  106- Dec  The Screaming Man         MH J    81 Jul  Sown back in Fr.Fish  156:7/45

        1946 
   3)2 Jan  Measures for a Coffin     MH      87 Jun                        150:12/44
  11)1 Feb  Se-Pah-Poo                MH      90 Feb                        155:7/45
2710)5 Mar  Terror & the Lone]y Widow MHR     89 Nov                        157:8/45
   7)2 Apr  Five Fathoms Dead         MHR     88 Nov                        151:4/45
  11)4 May  Death Is a RoundBlackSpot MH   P  90 Feb  Rewritten Dent novel  162:3/46
  11)2 Jun  Colors for Murder         MH      90 Feb                        163:4/46
   6)3 Jul  Fire and Ice (Bogart*)    MH      88 Aug                        164:5/46
  11)3 Aug  Three Times a Corpse      MH      90 Feb                        165:6/46
2812)5 Sep  The Exploding Lake(Davis*)MHR     90 Jun  Dent rewrites entirely160:11/45
  12)2 Oct  Death in Little Houses    MH      90 Jun                        154:7/45
            (Bogart*)
  11)5 Nov  The Devil ls Jones        MH J    90 Feb  Rewritten Dent novel  166:7/46
   6)4 Dec  The Disappearing Lady(Bog)MH      88 Aug                        168:10/46

       1947 
  12)3 Jan  Target for Death (Bogart) MHR     90 Jun  2nd to last Renny     167:9/46
  12)4 Feb  The Death Lady            MH  L   90 Jun                        169:11/46
29 7)4 Mar  Danger Lies East          MH      88 Nov  Babette Rosmond,ed.   161:11/45
   5)1 May  No Light to Die By        MH      88 Feb  1st person (& next 4) 170:2/47
   5)2 Jul  The Monkey Suit           M       88 Feb  1st Person            171:4/47
   5)3 Sep  Lets Kill Ames             H      88 Feb  now"Science Detective"172:4/47
   5)4 Nov  Once Over Lightly         M       88 Feb  1st Person            173:6/47

       1948 
   5)5 Jan  I Died Yesterday          M    P  88 Feb  Last Pat(39th),narr.  174:7or8/47
30 4)4 Mar  The Pure Evil             MHR     87 Oct  Last Renny            175:11/47
  13)2 May  Terror Wears No Shoes     MH  L   90 Oct  Cold War;Last LongTom 176:11/47
   1)3 Jul  The Angry Canary          MH      86 Aug  Daisy Bacon, ed.      177:4/48
   1)4 Sep  The Swooning Lady         MH      86 Aug  Last Digest-sized     179:6/48

       1949
  13)3 Wntr The Green Master          MH      90 Oct  Retro Thirties story  180:10/48
  13)4 Sprg Return from Cormoral      MH      90 Oct  Retro                 178:4/48
3113)5 Sum  Up from Earths Centcr     MH      90 Oct  Unresolved Ending     181:11/48

       1979
   95       Red Spider                MHR L   79 Jul  Rejected Cold War story
                                                      Follows "Swooning Lady"
       1991
            Escape From Loki          MHRJL   91 Aug  "by Philip José Farmer" 0:3-7/18
            (Philip José Farmer)
            Python Isle(Will Murray)  MHRJL   91 Oct  From Rejected Outline     25.5

       1992
            White Eyes (Murray)       MH J    92 Mar  Unused Annihilist-Vanisher  
            The Frightened Fish(Murry)MH J    92 Jul  Outline following "Up From..."
                                                      RSpider/Screaming Man sequel
                                                      follows Return from Cormoral
            The Jade Ogre (Murray)    MHRJLP  92 Oct  Curt Flagg outline

       1993
            Flight into Fear (Murray)         93 Mar  rewrite:Kill a Red Lady,1952 
                                                      preceeds Green Master
            The Whistling Wraith(Mrry)MHRJL   93 Jul  Vanisher outline
            The Forgotten Realm(Murry)MHRJL   93 Nov  1000-headed/Phantom City stuff

PLANNED, BUT UNPUBLISHED:

       1994
            The Infernal Buddah(Murray)       94 Mar  Metal Master false start  
            The Phantom Lagoon(Murray)        94 Jul  non-Doc "Hell Cay" 1939
            The War-Maker (Murray)            94 Oct  Fortress followup

       1995
            The Yesterday Man (Murray)        95 Mar  unused Outline  
            The Smoking Specter (Murray)      95 Jul  7-Agate/White Hot Corpses
            The Nullifier (Murray)            95 Oct  Johnson outline

 
Recommended:
Plot synopses of every Doc Savage story can be found at Jeff Sine's Doc Savage Web Page. This awesome effort follows the order of the Bantam reprints, and sports thumbnails of all the Bantam covers!

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