Doc investigates as ships cursed with an Evil Eye, including Pat’s schooner transporting gold from Hidalgo, go missing in the Caribbean in an act of piracy on the high seas that threatens to plunge the United States into war!
Doc Savage develops a process that can bring a dead person back to life, but the elements are so rare that it can only be done once. After much deliberation, Doc decides to resurrect the wisest man in history, Solomon. But, through the vilest of trickery, the mummy of the wickedest pharaoh to ever rule Egypt is brought back to life instead. Rather than go along with his benefactors, the Pharaoh forces them to help him rebuild his lost empire.
An exact double threatens to destroy Doc Savage’s reputation while accidental deaths at a railroad yard are attributed to slimy crawling reptiles floating in the air and criminals plot to contaminate the country’s water supply and hold the citizenry hostage for the antidote.
New York City is swept up in a wave of terror, as an evil international conspiracy devises a crime so sinister that only Doc Savage and his five mighty cohorts can halt its fiendish plan. Led by a phantom master criminal with stupefying supernatural powers, the conspiracy sets trap after trap for Doc. Finally, in a fantastic underground empire, the fearless bronze giant and his courageous crew must fight for their lives – against a diabolical enemy that cannot even be seen!
Into a subterranean world of red-hot lava, Doc Savage and his fantastic five descend – to face the most fiendish foe of his career. Awaiting Doc is an irresistible power that can level mountains… that can enslave the world… and that threatens to make Doc’s most dangerous adventure his very last…
Death comes from both above and below, as the Pacific Northwest is shaken by earthquakes while strange floating figures fill the sky striking terror with their deadly dirge. Doc and his crew race to Vancouver to oppose this alien menace, but can even Doc’s most advanced super-science match that of the flying Zoromen?
How could it be possible for someone to be killed in San Francisco and the body turn up in New York within the hour? Balls of fires streak across the sky accompanied by peals of thunder, deepening the mystery as a criminal gang robs banks and mansions all over the country, only to disappear without a trace!
Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic at Street & Smith Publications, with additional material contributed by the series' main writer, Lester Dent.<P> The heroic-adventure character would go on to appear in other media, including radio, film, and comic books, with his adventures reprinted for modern-day audiences in a series of...