Lester Dent created the pulp hero Doc Savage in 1933 and wrote more than 180 novels starring the famous Man of Bronze. Dent also wrote for the seminal pulp Black Mask, which also published Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, as well as authoring the hardboiled Chance Malloy crime novels for Doubleday and penning scripts for the Scotland Yard radio drama.
