Our hero has had some truly wild rides here in the All-New WILD Adventures of Doc Savage, but none wilder than Death’s Dark Domain.
In the Lester Dent novel Fortress of Solitude (reviewed HERE), you may recall, evil John Sunlight broke into Doc’s Arctic hideaway and stole a bunch of WWDs (Weapons of Weird Destruction) that Doc had appropriated from assorted mad scientists. In true bad-guy fashion, Sunlight sold one to each side in a small European war. Now, in this previously untold tale by Will Murray, while Sunlight is off somewhere enjoying the proceeds, Doc and his crew are stuck trying to clean up the mess.
And it’s one hell of a mess. Some of the many menaces they’re up against are monsters who are invisible except for their eyeballs, a sudden blackness that makes everything dark as the inside of a lump of coal, and a squadron of bats the size of airplanes. Add to that the usual quota of quirky villains and dangerous dames (some even quirkier and more dangerous than usual) and you’ve got one of the toughest cases the Savage gang has ever tried to crack.
As always, Will Murray’s homage to Lester Dent’s style is dead-bang perfect. And if I’m counting my fingers right, this is only the fourth in a projected seven-book run, so we have at least three more WILD adventures to look forward to.