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As there is no description of this book, this review will stand in for that.

Doctor Death was a short-lived 'villian pulp'. That is, a pulp magazine (cheap fiction magazine of the early 20th century) devoted to a single character, in this case, a villian rather then a hero.

Doctor Death was published by Dell Magazines in 1935. It was a retitling of their prior "All Detectives" magazine, and just before the retitle they ran 4 stories about ANOTHER "Doctor Death" villian. You can read those stories in the "Complete Doctor Death in All-Detective" ALSO published by Altus Press.

Doctor Death ran 3 issues and was cancelled. ALL 3 issues are reprinted in this... More > volume: "Twelve Must Die", "The Gray Creatures", and "The Shriveling Murders". 2 more were written, and those are reprinted in the 2nd volume. All stories were published under the 'house pseudonym' of "Zorro", but were really written by Harold Ward, a long-time pulp author.

Doctor Death was really a crazy scientist named "Dr. Rance Mandarin". He felt the earth was overpopulated, and so to deal with that, went after the human race with a variety of evil means. He basically wanted to reduce the population and return us to the stone age. He was opposed by Jimmy Holm, a millionarie and criminologist, backed by a secret group of 12 that included the US President.

As an added bonus, the editor of these books worked with the Ward estate to add some additional items, including information on a planned Doctor Death comic strip. You can see what was written up for this, a several week script to adapt the first story into a comic strip.

The cover of the first issue is used as the cover of this volume, the second issue cover is used as the cover of the second volume. All three covers are shown on the back of this volume. In addition, the original interior art from the 3 published issues are included in this volume, a great bonus. < Less