Doc Savage was a pulp character from the 30s and 40s. In many ways, he was the inspiration for Superman, but was a "normal" human, trained from birth to be a mental and physical marvel. Obviously, he had good genes as well, but he trained for two hours every day, exercising mind and body. He could speak and read dozens of languages, was an expert scientist in many fields, an adept surgeon, and a guy who "righted wrongs and punished evildoers."

The pulp books were reprinted as paperbacks from 1967 or so until around 1990. I found them when I was in 7th grade and continue to read them. Comic book revivals seem to come along every 5-10 years since the early 80s, but have never been very successful.

If you do a we search for a company called radio archives, they are reprinting all the pulps again. Much nicer versions, often going back and restoring material deleted from the pulp versions due to space limitations.