The Land of Terror / Kenneth Robeson

• The Land of Terror by Kenneth Robeson (Doc Savage #2, April 1933). 155 p.
  
  I realize that a monthly pulp magazine--especially one that's just getting established--had to reintroduce its main character every month in case it's the first time a reader has picked up the magazine. That said, I think the first two pages of this novel qualify as the clunkiest, most ham-handed info dump I've ever read. A well-respected chemist spends those two pages talking about how wonderful his friend Doc Savage is, then immediately gets murdered. Doc spends the rest of the book catching up to, and then punishing, the killers. Doc kills a lot of people in this book. Towards the end the setting shifts from NYC to a veritable lost world full of dinosaurs.
  
  First appearance of: Doc's special miniature machine guns (although they shoot regular bullets at this point). Doc "treating" bad guys instead of sending them to jail.