Well - Life has interrupted this blog….
While I haven’t been posting, I still have been reading (slowly) more Doc Savage stories. Here are some mini reports…
The Midas Man - August 1936 - Bantam #46
This adventure is most notable for having a mind reading helmet that actually works.
There is a scene where a couple of crooks discuss what happened to a crook friend that got caught by Savage. “There’s a rumor that he don’t ever kill anybody,” explained the crook. “But he does something queer to ‘em. I know this guy that had a brother that this bronze guy got. My pal later met his own brother on the street. The poor guy didn’t even know him.”
Also Doc gas bombs a building and later has the police check on it to be sure that no one is injured (he doesn’t mention that he was the one that gassed the building, however.
At one point Ham gets hit by a bullet. “Ham’s head swam. Awful lights jumped in his eyeballs.” He was ok due to his bulletproof vest, but I liked the detail.
James Bama provided an evocative cover - the helmet is wonderfully low tech.
Cold Death - September 1936 - Bantam #21
Writer Laurence Donovan brings back the Cold Light from Land of Always Night as a horrible weapon that destroys a whole city block in Manhattan.
South Pole Terror - October 1936 - Bantam #77
Doc and crew chase down a world threatening weapon at the South Pole. A good story by Dent and the paperback has a Fred Pfeiffer cover that also graces The Stone Man.
next up - back to full reviews
