#paperback novels

Something cool to notice about this Bama cover: the gun he has is not a ray gun or phaser or anything similar, but a flare gun. This story was partially set at sea and Doc used a flare to signal. It led to a widespread misconception Doc used high tech energy weapons, when in reality, Doc Savage hated using any kind of gun, and his stories were not that high tech. 

This is what 1930s-40s flare guns looked like. Easy to see how they could be mistaken for Flash Gordon rayguns: