Patricia "Pat" Savage is the cousin of the fictional 1930s and 1940s pulp hero Doc Savage, whose adventures in the Street and Smith publication of the same name ran for 181 issues. Pat Savage first appears in the 11th novel The Brand of the Werewolf. Doc helps her secure an inheritance, which is close to a million dollars. The 18-year-old is living in British Columbia,Canada at the time, though she later moves to New York City, where she opens a swank beauty salon that caters to the rich and famous, and some 30 women are on staff. Doc Savage refers to her father, Alex Savage, as an uncle he never met. Pat herself refers to Doc as her third or fourth cousin. She is supposedly Doc's only living relative.

Pat is tall, and is described as having bronze hair and skin, much like Doc. She is described as being a "knockout," someone who is so strikingly beautiful that she turns heads wherever she goes. She is an accomplished marksman and pilot (she occasionally borrows one of Doc's many aircraft for vacation, sometimes using the pseudonym 'Enola Emmel'; e.g. 'Lemme Alone'^[1]. ), and is well versed in self-defense. She loved Doc's adventures, and managed to include herself on many occasions, to Doc's discomfort (he was naturally protective of her), but to the delight of his five aides, particularly "Monk" Mayfair and "Ham" Brooks, who had more than a little crush on her.

After the Second World War, she comments on collecting a room full of Doc's gadgets to make a 'museum'^[2].

Pat appears in 37 of the original Doc Savage stories.

Pat Savage eschews the automatic pistols Doc has designed; her signature weapon is an old six-shooter handed down from her grandfather - a Colt Frontier Single Action .44 ^[3] with the trigger filed off and a fanning spur welded on the hammer, which she carries in her purse. Later it is stated that Doc Savage produced "mercy bullets" for it, which render those hit with them unconscious ( the same type of bullets used by Doc Savage's "Fabulous Five"). The gun becomes an important plot element in The Hate Genius, when a disguised Hitler thinks he's left his fingerprints on it, so Nazis keep trying to get the gun in order to protect his subterfuge.

Pat Savage is the main character of the 1948 Doc Savage story I Died Yesterday, which is recounted by her as a first-person narrative in Doc Savage Omnibus #5 .

Pat Savage, along with many other pulp characters, appears in Lin Carter's Prince Zarkon novels. In these she is named Pat Hazzard, having married pulp hero Rex Hazzard.

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