In Michigan, a new menace arises to threaten the nation. The Green Hand, unknown and unstoppable. For he wields the horrific Green Gas, which strips the flesh off the raw bones of any mortal it touches! But Richard Wentworth, alias the Spider, is no ordinary mortal. Pledged to protect humanity from the most dire threats, he is determined to vanquish the Green Hand and his hideous gas. Yet when brilliant industrialist Jonathan Love devises a succ ...
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 wa ...
From the beginning, criminals have lived in terror of the Spider. Crime lords cower before his awesome shadow. Single-handedly, the Spider has decimated New York's Underworld. What happens when a bigger, badder arachnid comes to town? How will the Master of Men react when the Tarantula begins operations? Blacking out Manhattan, pillaging with impunity, transforming it into a City of Flaming Shadows, the Tarantula shows no fear of the Spider ...
The most fearful terror ever to be visited upon a city had struck with malicious force and suddenness at Cincinnati. So fiendish were the machinations of the misshapen and malignant little monsters who were making the city their unholy playground, Richard Wentworth, famed as the Spider, knew that only one man could be directing them in their devil's sport. Only Tang-akhmut, the sinister Egyptian, the man whose vices were ageless and uncount ...
Richard Wentworth – whose grim, anti-crime crusades as the Spider have made him world-famous – was the first objective in the Poison Master's murder campaign. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, lay in a death-like stupor. His beloved, Nita van Sloan, was stricken with the horrible living death! And at the same time, countless thousands were felled by the same fatal venom… Caught in the crossfire between the Law and the Underworld, the Spider mus ...
Richard Wentworth – who, as the swift-killing Spider, is the scourge of the Underworld – thought the Fly was dead. But once more that most formidable enemy had arisen, pillaging, slaying wantonly, armed with a ghastly new weapon, the Green Globes of Death! Ruthless and astute, heading a gigantic criminal syndicate, the Fly was butchering innocent persons only, it seemed, to see their red blood flow. It was with flagging hope and heavy heart that ...
Beautiful girls, in the first bloom of youth, suddenly struck blind, their once sparkling eyes turned to glassy gray marbles. Strong men groping, sightless and helpless, in terrifying darkness. The Blind Man, he called himself, and it mattered little to him how many people he blinded in his mad lust for wealth and power. Just as a cobra sprays blinding venom into the eyes of its victims, so the Blind Man paralyzed the eyes of all who stood in hi ...
Across these broad United States swept the grisly hordes of LaFitte, modern counterpart of ancient, blood-thirsty piracy. In their horrible wake remained only red ruin and the charred skeletons of the Nation's crack trains… Such was the criminal blitzkrieg of LaFitte, the brutal buccaneer no man dared challenge – save Richard Wentworth… alias the Spider! How can millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth, secretly the Spider, battle such a ...
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 ...
