Hex and The Running Skeletons, Plus The Cult of Satan and Supersnipe's Guest Super-Doer (Doc Savage Book 21)

128 pp. Hex: From the moment Miles Billings arrived in a little town near Salem Corners called Witches’ Hollow, Hannah the witch began her reign of terror. While innocent people were being “hexed” and reduced to mumbling nonsense, The Man of Bronze went into action, risking his own life and those of his bold allies. Doc Savage plunged into nightmare horrors to subdue the most terrifying Master of Crime alive. Authored by William G. Bogart & Lester Dent. The Running Skeleton: Doc Savage and his crew are suddenly guinea pigs in an experiment of terror -- and a fiendish gang of gun slinging skeletons are out to skin them alive. Authored by Lester Dent. Plus The Cult of Satan, a lost radio classic by Edward Gruskin and Supersnipe's Guest Super-Doer, with new historical essays by Anthony Tollin and Will Murray. Doc Savage is a fictional character of the competent man hero type, who first appeared in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. Real name Clark Savage Jr., he is a polymathic scientist, explorer, detective, and warrior who "rights wrongs and punishes evildoers." He was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic at Street & Smith Publications, with additional material contributed by the series' main writer, Lester Dent. Doc Savage stories were published under the Kenneth Robeson name. The illustrations were by Walter Baumhofer, Paul Orban, Emery Clarke, Modest Stein, and Robert G. Harris. The heroic-adventure character would go on to appear in other media, including radio, film, and comic books, with his adventures reprinted for modern-day audiences in a series of paperback books, which had sold over 20 million copies by 1979. Into the 21st century, Doc Savage has remained a nostalgic icon in the U.S., referenced in novels and popular culture. Longtime Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee credited Doc Savage as being the forerunner to modern superheroes.