Something sinister causes a whole island to vanish! If Doc can’t uncover the fiendish plot behind this startling act, he might be the next to disappear!
The Bantam cover of this novel reuses a part of the artwork from the Bantam edition of “The Green Death.”
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Discovered Doc and crew in the 6th grade, and has been an avid reader and collector since. Prefer Street & Smith over Bantam, (mostly) Baumhofer and Harris over Bama, Emery and Clarke. Waiting for the grail, the March 1933 premier adventure, to fall into my lap and finish the original 181 issue pulp run.
Mystery Island may not be top notch Doc, but it has some really interesting things in it for Doc fans.
In this book we have the insatiable Monk romancing throughout as subtext. He is partying and out often in this episode and becomes a nuisance. He is such a dog that when he is on the phone about hitmen he starts hitting on the operator, Hester. This Hester bit really develops and this will lead later to some real trouble for Monk. Monk delivers a line about her to Ham that is worth repeating: