The All-White Elf & The Wee Ones

Doc Savage Sanctum Editions #70

by Kenneth Robeson (House Name), Lester Dent, Will Murray (Contributor)

The All-White Elf's blinding light inflicts severe illness on Monk and Ham!
Reports of a strange miniaturized woman set Doc on the trail of The Wee Ones.
Plus an illustrated adventure of Cap Fury.

112 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2013

About the author

Kenneth Robeson was the house name used by Street and Smith Publications as the author of their popular character Doc Savage and later The Avenger. Though most Doc Savage stories were written by the author Lester Dent, there were many others who contributed to the series, including:

William G. Bogart
Evelyn Coulson
Harold A. Davis
Lawrence Donovan
Alan Hathway
W. Ryerson Johnson

Lester Dent is usually considered to be the creator of Doc Savage. In the 1990s Philip José Farmer wrote a new Doc Savage adventure, but it was published under his own name and not by Robeson. Will Murray has since taken up the pseudonym and continued writing Doc Savage books as Robeson.

All 24 of the original stories featuring The Avenger were written by Paul Ernst, using the Robeson house name. In order to encourage sales Kenneth Robeson was credited on the cover of The Avenger magazine as "the creator of Doc Savage" even though Lester Dent had nothing to do with The Avenger series. In the 1970s, when the series was extended with 12 additional novels, Ron Goulart was hired to become Robeson.

Reviews

[John Peel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Two scientific mysteries for Doc and his crew this time around. First, in "The All-White Elf", a mysterious light blinds people and they are killed by a strange, white creature. Then Doc investigates reports of a woman only two feet tall who wields a knife and attacks people. Both stories are intriguing and a good deal of fun.

[Ronald · Rating 3 out of 5]

read The All-White Elf some time in 1987