Ling Tua

Ling Tua steps onto the page in the early 1990s courtesy of creators Mark Ellis and Darryl Banks, debuting in Millennium Publications' Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze #1 (1991) — a Copper Age entry into one of pulp fiction's most storied franchises. With only three catalogued appearances, Ling Tua is a rare and intriguing figure, the kind of character who makes devoted Doc Savage hunters dig deep into short-run back-issue bins. The company is formidable: sharing adventures with the likes of John Sunlight, Monk, Ham, and Long Tom puts Ling Tua squarely in the thick of Doc Savage's legendary world, and that alone makes tracking down this brief but vivid corner of the mythos well worth the effort.