fi" author and pulp fiction fan  Philip Jose Farmer (qv) wrote a book entitled "Doc Savage: His  Apocalyptic Life", a biography of "the man of bronze". In it, he  theorized that Clark Savage, Sr. (the father of Doc Savage) was  James Clarke Wildman, who appeared in the Sherlock Holmes story "The  Adventure of the Priory School". Farmer wrote an unused script for a  sequel to "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze" entitled "Doc Savage:  Archenemy of Evil", in which Holmes himself made an appearance,  commenting on Savage as the greatest student of deduction he ever  had and referencing his encounter with Savages father. It remains  unknown whom Farmer wanted for this role.