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| Art by Jim Steranko showing Doc in his original vest rather than the shirt seen here |
Investigating the death of Doc's father in Hildago, the Man of Bronze and his five associates enter the Valley of the Vanished and encountered the Mayan residents of a hidden City of Gold.
Its' ruler, King Chaac and his daughter, Princess Monja, welcome the son of the late Professor Clark Savage (killed by an unknown disease) and those who accompanied him.
However, urged on by the costumed Son of the Feathered Serpent, others are not so friendly towards the outsiders.
Under cover of darkness, they kidnap three of Doc's aides and throw them into a sacrificial well filled with poisonous snakes.
Monk, whom they'd left unconscious, follows them and...
While Doc's skills as a physician were not usually spotlighted (except in reference to his performing brain surgery on captive criminals), he has used his surgical talents to save his aides' lives on several occasions (and devised innovative techniques at the same time) as shown in these excerpts from Marvel's Doc Savage V2N7 (1977)...
In the course of this adventure, one of Doc's friends and aides, electronics expert Long Tom is ambushed...
Doc, of course, catches up with the ambushers...
...who are, in fact, reformed by Doc's brain surgery!After Giant-Size Doc Savage, instead of reviving the color comic, Marvel decided to do a b/w magazine featuring book-length original stories rather than adaptations of the pulp tales.
(Marvel's foray into a field previously-dominated by Warren Publishing had proven successful, with b/w magazines in horror, martial arts, and the Planet of the Apes movie/tv franchise proving to be solid sellers.)
The eight-issue magazine run is considered superior by many (including me) to the earlier comic run, with longer, more involved, original tales, all written by Doug Moench, that followed the Doc spirit more than the Lester Dent-conceived story structure.
Not to say the color comic didn't have it's good points including a couple of Jim (The Shadow, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.) Steranko covers and some of penciler Ross Andru's best artwork ever!Next Friday, on the Eve of Halloween...
Nope, We're Not Telling You!
If You Want a Treat, You've Gotta Be Here to Receive It!
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