Doc Savage en français: L'homme Midas (The Midas Man)

About this issue

This French-language pulp magazine contains "Midas," the first installment of a Doc Savage adventure serialized in multiple chapters. The narrative opens with Philadelphia banker Jethro Mandebran's mysterious disappearance while golfing, followed by discovery of twenty million dollars missing from his trust company. When Clark Savage Jr. (Doc Savage) appears on the list of depositors affected by the theft, journalists swarm his New York headquarters on the eighty-sixth floor of a skyscraper. His associate, the eccentric but erudite William Harper Littlejohn—a renowned archaeologist and geologist known for incomprehensibly complex vocabulary—deflects reporters. Criminal operatives posing as journalists and photographers steal an ancient Egyptian tablet from the Museum of Natural History, then lure Littlejohn away under false pretenses, ambushing him in a taxi. They imprison him in a basement containing a sarcophagus. The story breaks off mid-narrative as complications involving Jethro Mandebran's son multiply.