It crept furtively along a steel girder. Hundreds of feet below yawned glass-and-brick-walled cracks---New York streets. Down there, late workers scurried homeward. Most of them carried umbrellas, and did not glance upward. (from The Man of Bronze by Lester Dent, writing as Kenneth Robeson) Thus begins the greatest adventure series to come out of the pulp magazine era. The adventure opens when a bullet from the assassin's rifle, a double barrel .577 Nitro Express made by Webley and Scott of Birmingham England. Written by Lester Dent in December of 1932, published March 1933.