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This story is attributed to Lawrence A. Donovan. It has a few problems.
First off, the part where the rope smoked as Doc slid down from the crow's nest on the Narwhal. There's nary a word about any friction burns on Doc hands or any trick he could have used to save his hand.
The business of Lanta shooting Doc and his men in order to get them aboard her Uni-ship makes no sence. Why was it necessary to shoot them?
Doc is strong but he
isn’t this strong: "The human eye showed the tower of gold
and mica to be as evenly surfaced as tranquil water. Vision indicated no hold
whatever. But the cabled wrists of the bronze man made steellike claws of his
fingers. The gold and mica sank under their pressure." This
is just too outrageous. This sounds like the Incredible Hulk rather than Doc
Savage.
What about Caulkins and Cassalano? Why don't they get an all expense paid trip to the Crime College? Instead we are told that they will now be too busy to get in any more trouble. Sheesh!
Doc is going to show the King's surgeons how to operate
on the crime gland but it must have been a quick lesson as it is insinuated
that not all that much time elapsed from the wrap up to their return to the
surface.
The list doesn't stop here. There are other items that seem inconsistent with
the series. But after a while one wonders just what is the point of counting
warts on a hog?
I guess that it is a little consolation that this stinker was written by Lawrence Donovan rather than directly by Dent himself. Prior to this read I had always enjoyed all the various stories but since last summer I've been reading them a little more seriously looking for clues to unanswered questions. Let me elaborate that statement. I've always enjoyed the first sixty or so of the paperback reprints. Ba Diamond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond
World’s largest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_diamonds
Flying Dutchman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman
Gorblimey – God blind me.
Hornspoon
Daily Pennant, St. Louis, April 28
horn spoon, by the: an exclamation of surprise, shock or anger.
http://home.att.net/~w.tomtschik/SD19C.html
ntam did a bang up job, in my opinion, of picking the cream of the crop to reprint.
November 8, 1935 – Aviator Kingsford Smith disappears while attempting to break the England-Australia speed record.
November 22, 1935 – The first airmail across the Pacific Ocean is delivered by the China Clipper as it flies from California to the Philippines.
