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Got it right here Fortress of Solitude info
Its predecessor, Superman's "Secret Citadel", first appeared in Superman #17, where it was said to be built into a mountain on the outskirts of Metropolis. However, the formal introduction of the Fortress took place in the story "The Super-Key to Fort Superman", published in Action Comics #241 June 1958.
1930s and 1940s pulp fiction hero Doc Savage maintained his own Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic.
It was there that he did scientific research and study when he needed to get away from his life of adventuring. Doc's fortress was mentioned in the first Doc Savage pulp novel, Man of Bronze by Lester Dent, and was published in March 1933, which predates Superman's hideaway.
Fortress of Solitude was also the title of a Doc Savage novel published in October 1938, which provides extensive background information about the actual structure which was described as a massive, 100-foot-tall blue dome (see video clip below). It formed the background for a deadly confrontation between Doc Savage and his greatest foe, John Sunlight.
Later, in the October 1942 pulp novel The Laugh of Death, the fortress had been modified to resemble an ice-covered rock outcropping.
In the 1975 film Doc Savage: The Man on Bronze, the Fortress of Solitude is shown as a large igloo-like structure.
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