Doc Throw Pike

Seized with an idea, Doc grasped a pike and a cutlass. There was nothing fake about the weapons. They were genuine heavy steel. The cutlass was razor keen.

Doc retraced his route. He was in time to see one of his ratty quarry peering into the hatch. The villainous fellow got a glimpse of Doc's bronze form. He fired his revolver.

But Doc had moved. The bullet upset an image of a whiskered pirate. An instant later, the pike whizzed from Doc's long arm.

The steel-shod shaft found accurate lodgment in the gun fiend's brain. The man toppled headlong into the hold. His body, crashing to the floor, sent a gruesome papier-mâché head bouncing across the planks.

- The Land of Terror (1933) Chapter 3