The Annihilist 
Originally published December 1934 in Doc Savage Mag. 		 Author Pulp Artist PB Artist
Lester Dent Walter Baumhofer James Bama
 
The story begins: "John Henry Cowlton was the first pop-eyed dead one." 

One of Doc Savage's most guarded secrets is in serious jeopardy. A man is murdered in cold blood in the office of The Association Of Physical Health. The murdered man's name is Leander Court. He is a surgeon trained by Doc himself, and employed at Doc's Crime College.  Stranger still is the fate of his killer- a horrible convulsive death which forces eyeballs from their sockets.

Doc learns that a criminal gang has uncovered the truth about his facility in Upstate New York- a facility to which he sends all the crooks he captures. The gang's next victim is Dr. Robert Lorrey, another of Doc's surgeons. The gang tortures Lorrey in an attempt to learn the secret of Doc's criminal-curing operation- they hope to reverse it to forcibly create criminals from honest men of power and influence. Lorrey escapes without talking, but at the cost of being horribly mutilated.

Soon the horrible eye-popping death strikes across New York City taking victims each day. After causing panic of a strange new epidemic, it is found that the deadly malady strikes only those who display violent anger. Criminals in fear of their lives start to think of going straight. Then comes an ominous discovery- it is the work of The Crime Annihilist!

Doc races time to stop the gang, secure the secrets of the Crime College, and solve the mystery of the eye-popping death and it's source.


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