“The Crime Doctor”baron_wasteJuly 15 2015, 05:45:21 UTC
Speaking of Without a Clue as we were earlier, that would be the problem: No one would be interested.
This story, then, fits well into that 1930s Doc Savage blurb I mentioned earlier, which stressed that each of the other five were respected leaders in their chosen fields, called upon in their own right. That der Ubermann aus Bronze was just as good as any of them in all of their fields combined was no reflection upon them; he was, after all, the Superman, and this was only to be expected!
Re: “The Crime Doctor”dochermesJuly 15 2015, 17:36:31 UTC
I don't know, Pat Savage narrated I DIED YESTERDAY and that is one of the books often mentioned as a favorite because it reveals so much of her. I think a few stories starring one of the aides on his own, with Doc and the others mentioned but not appearing, would have been a nice change of pace. In the early books, before Monk and Ham took over,we saw more variety. In THE SEA MAGICIAN, Johnny does well on his own and in THE KING MAKER Renny essentially has his own adventure. I'd love a story where cranky short-tempered Long Tom has to escort some orphans safely through a war zone, or Ham deals with a locked-room mystery by himself.
"Henry" Renwick
anonymous
February 7 2016, 02:23:22 UTC
The 1946 adventures seem to have a high incidence of typos - "to" instead, that sort of thing. I could see this as "Renny" being keyed as "Henry"...only two letters off. (Why the typos weren't caught is another story.)
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This story, then, fits well into that 1930s Doc Savage blurb I mentioned earlier, which stressed that each of the other five were respected leaders in their chosen fields, called upon in their own right. That der Ubermann aus Bronze was just as good as any of them in all of their fields combined was no reflection upon them; he was, after all, the Superman, and this was only to be expected!
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