Doc Dodge T-Rex

Suddenly vegetation swished and crashed as the monster got into motion.

It was charging Doc!

Doc's mighty bronze figure flashed sidewise, moving with a speed such as it possibly had never before attained. But as he changed position, his golden eyes were sharpened for sight of the peril that rushed him.

He saw it--as fearful and loathsome a sight as human eyes ever beheld!

THE shocking size of the horror was apparent. It bulged out of the steam like a tall house. It hopped on massive rear legs, balancing itself by a great tail, kangaroolike.

The two forelegs were tiny in proportion--like short strings dangling. Yet those forelegs that seemed so small were thicker through by far than Doc Savage's body!

The revolting odor of a carnivorous thing accompanied the dread apparition. The stench was of decaying gore. The hide of the monster had a pebbled aspect, somewhat like a crocodile. Its claws were frightful weapons of offense, being of such proportions as to easily grasp and crush a large bull.

Perhaps the most ghastly aspect of the thing were the teeth. They armored a blunt, revolting snout of a size as stupendous as the rest of the hopping terror.

So great was the weight of the thing that its feet sank into the spongy earth the depth of a tall man at each step.

"What is it, Doc?" Monk shouted.

"Tyrannosaurus!" Doc answered him. "Look lively!"

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AN attempt to do this, however, nearly proved disastrous. The monster tyrannosaurus seemed to have very sensitive ears. Too, it could see them for a distance of many yards, now that the steam had nearly dissipated. It rushed them.

Doc, to save the lives of his friends, took the awful risk of decoying the reptile away while the others fled. Only the power and agility of his mighty bronze body saved him, for once he had to dodge between the very legs of the monster, evading by a remarkable spring snapping, foul, fetid teeth that were nearly as long as a man's arm.

Gliding under a canopy of overlapping ferns, Doc evaded the bloodthirsty reptile.

- The Land of Terror (1933) Chapter 16