My favorite Doc Savage cover(by Ken Barr)...I love the design, the colors, everything. Nothing's creepier than man-sized bugs...*shudder*The story is "The Mayan Mutations!" by Doug Moench(as always), Val Meyerik, and Tony DeZuniga. Doc and his team hear about a sacred temple supposedly full of wondrous treasures in Peru.
The temple comes under assault by a band of white men and when some of the local tribesmen tried to defend it, they were murdered. Yet one of them made it in and hasn't been seen since. When the man's wife tried to find him, she was scared off by a giant "night-flier" who looks a lot like the creepy bug depicted on the cover.
Doc and the team head to Peru, where they combat a whole menagerie of giant insects, snakes, and the like. After fending them off, plus the local tribe(who believe Doc and his team are there to steal the treasures, too), Doc makes it in and is attacked by a savage beast-man, who turns out to be genetically mutated by the band of white treasure hunters. One of them shoots Long Tom, and Doc is so disgusted at their greed he hauls off and punches them out, walking off, yelling "Collect the garbage, brothers." Ouch!
This was one of my favorite issues, since the plot is a little less sci-fi and more creepy adventure, and its nice to see Doc actually get really, really mad. He's usually written so stoic and perfect, this was a nice change of pace.
This issue also features two pin-ups by Ed Davis, and a prose story focusing on Little John. A solid issue; too bad it was the next-to-last. *sniff*
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