Doc Savage Quarterly

Doc Savage Quarterly #7 (October 16, 1981) This fanzine devoted to Doc Savage pulp fiction contains reader correspondence, administrative notes, and editorial content. The issue includes a follow-up article by Steve on Doc Savage comics, reproducing pages from pulp magazines. Contributors include Tom Johnson, Nick Carr, Bill Laidlaw, Dafydd Neal Dyar, Link Hollar, and calligrapher Allyson Whitfield. The letters section features correspondence from Clark Savage Jr. (claiming to be the character's namesake and an aircraft designer), discussing Doc Savage chronology, the Spear of Longinus, and Japanese zaibatsu history; Norma Dent; Philip José Farmer; and others debating Doc's characterization during wartime, the 13th Floor laboratory, and Farmer's *Lord of the Trees/Mad Goblin* (Tarzan/Doc Savage pastiches). Editor Bill Laidlaw provides publishing deadlines and advertising rates for future issues.