The ebooks I’m reading are scans of existing books. They have to be, inasmuch as there were no book scanners in the 1930’s, and no computers on which we could read ebooks. In the scanning process an occasional error crops up, words are not caught exactly right, and the spelling and wrong-word errors often make it into the resultant ebook. Such is the case with “Terror in the Navy,” April 1937. Either that, or Doc was a really nasty fighter. Take a look:
“Doc Savage took the man by the anus first, and got the gun, then grasped the fellow’s neck, and the man became unconscious.”
If he got me like that I’d give him the gun too.