Scientist and world-saving explorer Doctor Ardan was created in 1928 by French author Guy d'Armen in the pages of the magazine L'Intr pide five years before Doc Savage. In The Hurricane Master (1931), Doc Ardan is asked to investigate mysterious hurricanes that disturb maritime traffic in the French Pacific. He is able to expose and defeat the science pirate Krakatax, the master of Hurricane Island, and rescue the daughter of...