Doc Savage: El País de la Noche Eterna

Catalog Note This issue of the Doc Savage pulp magazine features the Spanish-language serial "El país de la noche eterna" (The Land of Eternal Night) by Kenneth Robeson, beginning with Chapter 1, "Revoloteo de Muerte" (Fluttering of Death). The narrative opens with a mysterious, otherworldly assassin named Ool—characterized by an unnaturally pale complexion, enormous watery eyes, and a distinctive ghostly white hand that moves with hypnotic slowness—confronting a criminal named "Beery" Hosmer in a darkened street. Ool kills Hosmer with a touch and retrieves a pair of unusual large dark-lensed goggles, which Hosmer had stolen. Chapter 2 shifts to the apartment of Earl Maurice "Watches" Bowen (a wealthy New York criminal who collects timepieces), where Ool reports Hosmer's death and reveals he belongs to an ancient non-human civilization. Bowen expresses fear of Doc Savage becoming involved. Ool claims to possess knowledge of Savage and his five specialized assistants, and proposes using Savage himself to advance their unspecified plans involving a dirigible-based scheme observed from a Park Avenue window.