Books: Back to the Gore of Yore

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But let's be fair. Doc did a lot of good in his time. He thinned out the werewolves in northern California, established a Brontosaurus preserve at the center of the earth and prevented an evil maharajah from hypnotizing the entire world. Too bad he could not have done more for the man who actually created him. Author Dent, who died in 1959, never got more than $750 for a Doc Savage novel. His widow, who lives in La Plata, Mo., has no contractual rights to the stories. Of the millions made by the Bantam reprints she will not get a penny.