Mark Hood #7: “Throne of Satan” by James Dark (James
E. MacDonnell). The story starts off as a case has come to a close. Mark Hood
and Tommy Tremayne have stopped Borja, a scientists, from stockpiling nuclear
bomb material on an island. Hood transfers the material to a waiting ship while
Tremayne remains with Bprja on another boat. Borja escapes and captures Tommy,
then a submarine appears and picks them up, and they are taken to a volcanic
island called Dominica. Hood soon finds a planted clue and heads for the island
with Murimoto, his Japanese karate trainer. They are captured and taken before
the giant Dominat; a man standing at least seven feet tall, with the build and
strength of Hercules, and the genius of Einstein. Dominat has created
scientific gadgets and machines that make him a literal superman, plus he has a
huge missile in the volcano aimed at America. It’s evident that he wants to
take over the world. This was one of the best of the Mark Hood stories, and it
was good to see Murimoto in action instead of Hood this time. Unfortunately,
several of the Mark Hood stories have dealt with the same plot, just a variance
of each.
Earl Norman
The Earl Norman books are becoming extremely rare, and publishers don’t seem to be interested in reprinting the series. The only way some of us may ever have all the stories is for collectors to scan and type the stories into PDF to swap with other collectors. I have already completed PDFs of HANG ME IN HONG KONG and KILL ME IN ROPPONGI. I am working on KILL ME IN YOKOSUKA. If other collectors would do the same for some of the other books, we could eventually have PDFs of all ten books. Why not help? I can be contacted at fadingshadows40@gmail.com
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