She called herself Captain Kidd. As a buccaneer, she put the bloody rogues of the Spanish Main to shame. Merchant ships did not interest her. She and her Pirates went after passenger trains and skyscrapers with a devilish new weapon called the Green Fire. When a looted train filled with electrified corpses crashes into Grand Central Station, Richard Wentworth again dons the dark garments of the Spider-Master of Men! His mission: to track down this distaff demon and bring an end to her vicious reign of citizen slaughter. But-is this one time that the Spider faces a foe more fearsome than he? Can even one man-no matter how superhuman- defeat a force of nature in female form? The Spider versus Captain Kidd. One will live. And one must die.... Adapted from the July, 1934 issue of The Spider magazine.
For ten grim years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. No one knew his name. His face was unknown. Pursued by the police, sought by the mob, the Master of Men crushed crime with a blazing intensity never witnessed before or since. Now he's back in a series of riveting audiobooks adapting his most intense adventures from the pulpy pages of The Spider magazine, as chronicled by Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge! When a vicious new supercriminal calling himself the Fly appears on the scene, pillaging and slaughtering with impunity, criminologist Richard Wentworth takes up the sinister disguise and punishing guns of the Spider to hunt him down. But when the Spider and the Fly cross swords, which one will perish in the Spider's web? The wily Fly or the Spider himself? Adapted from the August 1934 story, appearing in The Spider magazine.
A powerful menace has targeted the United States of America-the Silver King and his Silver Assassins. Their goal: the overthrow of the U.S. government by mob rule. Their method: wholesale murder-beginning with the nation's law makers! Tipped off to the threat, millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth sets out to smash the plot--as the Spider! The headlong action begins in the depths of a Colorado silver mine where U. S. senators have been targeted for slaughter, careens through the nation's Capitol, climaxing in a stunning showdown on the Senate floor when a cold corpse rises from the dead to finger his killer! Ripped from the September, 1934 issue of The Spider, magazine.
By what strange twist of Fate did the fearful menace which was to shadow every man and woman in New York City first rear its venomous head in the distant Caribbean? When terror suddenly boarded a little tramp steamer and left crimson havoc littering its narrow decks a spluttering wireless flashed the doom of every living thing aboard. Within a week, the same ghastly fate struck a gigantic new ocean liner, its luxurious cabins occupied by the elite and powerful of a dozen different nations! Death - swift and terrible - rode the ocean lanes. And the Spider - taken for once off guard - was supposedly dying in a hospital room on the very day when that terror from the seas first showed itself in all its terror above the city skyline. How can the Spider, fighting death himself, help the nation he loves in her hour of greatest need? Builders of the Black Empire is torn from the pages of the October, 1934 issue of The Spider magazine.
Hideous maniacal laughter shattered the dark silence of ghostly tenements. Sleepy-eyed men and women, stumbling through the dim halls of the building, found a sight that chilled their souls with terror. On a blank wall, spikes driven through her, hands and feet, blood coursing down her arms and breasts in tiny rivulets, a beautiful young woman was hanging, crucified, dying. Still another victim of the Torture Trust! And while panic spreads, while hundreds die victims of the Killers, the Spider is blinded, his faithful servants imprisoned, his friends dishonored! How can Richard Wentworth, desperate and alone, combat the powerful, well-organized Murder Syndicate whose gun hirelings hunt him down like a vicious mad dog? Death's Crimson Juggernaut is torn from the pages of the November, 1934 issue of The Spider magazine.
It began with the appearance of a creepily-gaunt apparition on the streets of New York. The Skeleton Man, they called him. A veiled figure as stark and unnerving as the Grim Reaper. Then, innocent citizens began dying like flies sprayed by DDT! Smokers. Drinkers. Even common coffee was laced with tasteless death. Into this living hell plunges Richard Wentworth, determined to root out the faceless terrorist behind the wholesale poisoning of everything from tobacco to tea. And where Wentworth ventures, the Spider also stalks....and slays! Ultimately, the trail of terror leads to a New Year's Eve showdown with the mysterious Red Mandarin, creator of The Red Death Rain! Ripped from the December, 1934 issue of The Spider magazine.
Thousands of busy persons bent over their desks in the tallest building in the world - conducting the commerce of the nation - when suddenly the steel girders began to creak and twist, and the gigantic edifice swayed giddily in the rising wind. Never before had criminal brains devised a more cunning or a more horrible weapon to garner their ill-gotten treasures. And never before was the Spider so strenuously put to test - for the Master, the man behind the devastation and death, eluded every suspicion, foresaw every contingency, left no tell-tale clues behind him as he ravaged, slayed and pillaged... Richard Wentworth, working for once hand in hand with the organized forces of law and order, fights the grimmest battle of his long career. Can the Spider avenge the countless dead who have already fallen? Can he bring the Murder Master to the justice he so richly deserves? The City Destroyer is torn from the pages of the January, 1935 issue of The Spider magazine.
In a hundred thousand homes, families sat down together at the supper table. A few hours later, those persons were dead - killed by poison in canned foods! Thousands of women used cosmetics, and acid made their faces forever hideously scarred. A master criminal, daring and clever, was ruthlessly slaughtering Americans to win immense illicit profits for himself. Only one man was powerful enough and wise enough to stop this wholesale murder - Richard Wentworth, champion of oppressed humanity, better known as the Spider. And the Spider was engaged in the bitterest battle of his career, fighting the Avenger, a false, wily crusader who was determined to destroy him! The Pain Emperor is torn from the pages of the February, 1935 issue of The Spider magazine.
For ten exciting years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. No one knew his name. His face was unknown. Pursued by the police, sought by the mob, the Master of Men crushed crime with a blazing ferocity never witnessed before or since. Now he's back in a series of riveting audiobooks adapting his most intense adventures from the pages of The Spider magazine, as chronicled by Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge! A weird new threat lashes Manhattan in the form of a giant lion-headed man-creature who wields lighting bolts as his weapon of conquest. Even the vaunted Spider stands in awe of this powerful being who claims to have come to Earth from the planet Mars! Come into my web, said the Spider to the Lion Man...? Adapted from the March, 1935 story appearing in The Spider magazine.
Never before has the Spider, Master of Men, crusader extraordinary against the Underworld, been faced with such overwhelming difficulties. A magically persuasive radio voice luring thousands of young people to crime; a scientific madman dealing germicidal death over the nation; every criminal gang in the country organized to levy toll by stark terror... How can Richard Wentworth link these facts, weave a web of retribution for the Doom Dealer? With his beloved Nita captured and waiting for a ghastly old-world torture, his one-time friend Kirkpatrick ordering police on his trail to 'Kill at Sight!', his every movement hampered not only by outlaws but by the law itself - can even the Spider find a way to free humanity from the grip of wholesale destruction being planned for it by the greatest of all Crime Masters? Slaves of the Crime Master is torn from the pages of the April, 1935 issue of The Spider magazine.
Exactly at eleven-thirty each Thursday night the Death Fiddler conducted his unholy orchestra in a symphony of murder which sounded the doom of some marked victim. A master of the grotesque, he held an entire city in the strangle-hold of a helpless terror; even the forces of the Law stood in shuddery, superstitious fear of this new destroyer. And then the Spider, Master of Men, modern knight-errant of mankind, rose up against him! But the Spider, too, was baffled; not all Richard Wentworth's efforts seemed enough to destroy this new, this ugliest of all Hydra heads rearing out of the noxious slime of the Underworld... Reign of the Death Fiddler is torn from the pages of the May, 1935 issue of The Spider magazine.
In the gaunt desolation of those dark Kentucky hills, the Dixie Limited, crack flyer, stood gutted of all living passengers... The Spider, the only survivor, stood alone at that bleak scene, vowing silently, solemnly, to destroy the ambition-mad arch-criminal who had plotted this wholesale ruin. For this, and manifold like disasters, were occurring everywhere in the land - at the direction, Richard Wentworth knew, of some diabolical brain which was unleashing hordes of primitive barbarians to lay waste civilization. But later, at the very moment when the Spider should have struck his most telling blow, he was pacing a narrow cell in the death-house at Sing Sing! Hordes of the Red Butcher is torn from the pages of the June, 1935 issue of The Spider magazine.
