Doc Savage: El hombre de bronce

# Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze

This Spanish-language pulp serial, written by Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent) and originally published in 1933, opens with an assassination plot against Doc Savage himself. A mysterious man with crimson-fingertipped hands scales a New York skyscraper under cover of darkness, speaking in an ancient, extinct language while carrying a deadly device. He targets Doc Savage's office, spotting a bronze bust of the legendary adventurer through binoculars—which suddenly reveals itself to be the living Doc, a bronze-colored man of extraordinary physical and intellectual capabilities.

Doc's five specialist companions arrive to inform him of his father's death three weeks prior in the Central American Republic of Hidalgo from a rare disease. However, Johnny Littlejohn, the group's geologist and archaeologist, insists the death was murder. The narrative establishes Doc's rigorous upbringing—trained since infancy in physical and mental disciplines—and his team's specialized expertise: Renny (engineering), Monk (chemistry), Long Tom (electrical engineering), Ham (law), and Johnny (archaeology/geology).