The Polar Treasure 
Originally published: June 1933 in Doc Savage Magazine 		 Author Pulp Artist PB Artist
Lester Dent Walter Baumhofer Jim Aviati or 
Lou Feck

The story begins: "Something terrible impended". 
The adventure opens with Doc Savage attending a symphony concert to hear the blind violin virtuoso, Victor Vail, play among others, a piece written by Doc himself. Afterword, Vail is nearly kidnapped in a ruse to see his long lost friend Ben O'Gard. The blind Vail reveals to Doc that he was the sole surviving passenger of the lost liner Oceanic, which was marooned in the arctic wastes fourteen years earlier after being pursued across the Atlantic by a German submarine. Ben O'Gard had rescued him from a mutinous sailor named Keelhaul de Rosa who with his men massacred the remaining crew and passengers in their greed for the $50 million in gold and diamonds in the ships purse.

 Vail is kidnapped, but Doc has ways of tracking people, and he rescues the blind violinist from near death. His medical examination turns up a map tatooed on the blind man's back which only reveales itself to certain wavelengths of X-rays. The map is to the lost liner Oceanic! Doc knows that the liner's treasure could not have been carried off the arctic ice, it was too big a load. The villains tatooed Vail and had been keeping tabs on him until the time was right to find the liner and claim the treasure.

 Doc and his men decide to beat them to it. They charter the submarine Helldiver and after a trecherous journey under the polar ice they find the lost liner and engage a battle to punish the evildoers and claim the treasure for good deeds!  


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