Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze

In 1936, Doc Savage returns to New York City and learns his father died mysteriously during an expedition in Hidalgo. He begins examining his father's papers for clues to the cause of death and the possible motives behind it.

While poring over the papers, an assassin targets Doc in a bold attack in the city. He chases the shooter to the nearby Eastern Cranmoor Building, where the would-be killer falls to his death. The corpse reveals the killer is a Native American with red fingertips and a Kukulkan tattoo. The incident confirms that someone is targeting Doc and his investigations.

Doc returns to his penthouse and finds that intruders have destroyed his father's personal papers, erasing crucial leads. The setback steels his resolve, and he vows to uncover the truth about his father's death. He decides to fly to Hidalgo with The Fabulous Five to continue the investigation.

Doc Savage travels to Hidalgo with his brain trust, The Fabulous Five, to pursue answers behind his father's death. The journey sets up the expedition into the remote interior and the political intrigue surrounding long-lost land grants. The group prepares for the dangers ahead.

Waiting for Doc's arrival, international criminal Captain Seas attacks to kill Doc and his friends, culminating in a wild melee on his yacht, the Seven Seas. The battle introduces Seas as a formidable foe who will stop at nothing. The encounter foreshadows the larger struggle over Hidalgo's secrets.

Doc's investigation reveals that Professor Savage received a vast land grant in Hidalgo from the Quetzamal, a Mayan tribe that disappeared centuries ago. Don Rubio Gorro explains that the original records are missing. Mona Flores, Gorro's assistant, has seen the papers and offers to guide Doc to the land claim.

Following Mona's guidance, Doc and his friends locate the hidden entrance into the Valley of the Vanished, where the Quetzamal still live. The discovery deepens the mystery behind the land grant and the true power behind Seas's scheme. The team prepares to enter the dangerous valley.

Doc separates from the group and discovers a pool of molten gold within the valley complex. He realizes the treasure is tied to the fate of the Quetzamal and the secret behind his father's death. The moment marks a turning point in the investigation.

Seas's men begin using the Quetzamal as slave labor to extract the molten gold for Seas's own profit. Doc's team learns of the exploitative operation and the growing threat to the natives. The rescue mission becomes urgent.

Seas's henchmen capture Mona Flores and The Fabulous Five, and Seas unleashes the Green Death, the airborne plague that felled Doc's father. The danger forces Doc to act immediately to save his friends and halt the spread of the plague.

Doc overpowers Captain Seas in a protracted clash of fighting styles and forces Seas to release his friends. He then administers a special antidote to counteract the Green Death and save Mona and The Fabulous Five.

Dynamite detonations cause the molten gold pool to erupt, coating Seas's henchmen, including Don Rubio Gorro, in molten metal. Chief Chaac then offers the gold and the land grant to Doc, and Doc vows to continue his father's work in justice.

Doc returns to the United States and sets up a private rehabilitation center in Westchester County. He performs acupuncture brain surgery on Captain Seas to reform him of his criminal tendencies.

During Christmas season, Doc encounters the former supervillain now serving as a bandleader for The Salvation Army, flanked by Adriana and Karen. The meeting hints at the ongoing moral complexities facing Doc's world.

Back at his penthouse, Doc receives an urgent message about a new threat that could cost millions of lives, recorded on his answering machine. He leaps into action and heads toward the next adventure.