Doc Savage - Cultural References

Cultural References

• Doc Savage and his brain modification technique are suggested as a possible outcome to the trial in Truman Capote's book In Cold Blood.

• In his book Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, Farmer lays out Savage's key role in the fictional Wold Newton family, linking Doc to Tarzan and numerous other fictional heroes and villains from popular and classical literature. Farmer theorizes Doc is the grandson of Wolf Larson, master of the Sea Wolf, in the novel of the same name, by Jack London.

• In the novelization of The Rocketeer movie by Peter David, the characters speculate that perhaps Doc Savage invented the rocketpack and his boys ("probably Ham and Monk") are due to come any moment. In the Rocketeer movie itself, the inventor was Howard Hughes.

• In the original comic The Rocketeer by Dave Stevens, Doc appears, along with Monk and Ham, searching for the missing rocket pack discovered by Cliff Secord.

• On the BBC 606 football phone in one of the hosts, Robbie Savage is referred to as Doc Savage and they play a small sound bite to emphasize the point.