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Author: Ted Nolan Ted Nolan Date: Jul 4, 2008 07:48
In article k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
Dave bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>From the Fall of 1934; bantam #26
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>1. What a great title!
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>2. Is this the first one with just Monk and Ham helping? Renny,
>Johnny and Long Tom all overseas.
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>3. Pat has opened her big NYC beauty salon. by the chronoplogy of
>BRAND OF THE WEREWOLF, she would have been 20, at best.
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>4. No mention of the Crime college in this one.
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>5. This one is really good. The action is mysterious, but not silly.
>Habeus is left behind early on. An odd all New York city and nearby
>at sea adventure.
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>6. We see DOC having to face off against another gadget guy. Ull is
>a practical inventor -- not above stealing the occasional invention,
>but he's got a variety of gadgets, and he's studied DOC'S. Pretty
>neat.
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>7. One of those rare, "better than i remembered it" DOC'S -- think I
>was getting it confused with the MArvel comics adaptation.
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>FYI -- The Hidalgo trading company and the float planes were essential
>to DOC -- New york City has no airport until North Beach (La Guardia)
>openes in October. 1939.
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>dave
And, iirc, in just a few years, the idea that the crooks' secret could be kept
would be ridiculous given all the planes over NYC by that point..
But a great Doc for sure.
Ted
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