First performed at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 21, 1879, “A Doll’s House” is one of Henrik Ibsen’s most famous plays. It is the story of Nora Helmer who has secretly borrowed a large sum of money to help her husband recover from a serious illness, sometime prior to the beginning of the play. Nora who has borrowed this money by forging her father’s signature soon fears that her secret will be discovered when her husband, ...
First performed in 1913, “Pygmalion” is George Bernard’s Shaw’s play regarding two scholars of phonetics, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, trying to test their theories on an unsuspecting flower girl. When Higgins boasts he could pass anyone off as a lord or lady simply by teaching them to speak right, Pickering wagers that he can’t and offers to pay for the speech lessons of Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl. Eliza accepts the o ...
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known popularly by his stage name Moliere, is regarded as one of the masters of French comedic drama. When Moliere began acting in Paris there were two well-established theatrical companies, those of the Hotel de Bourgogne and the Marais. Joining these theatrical companies would have been impossible for a new member of the acting profession like Moliere and thus he performed with traveling troupes of actors in the French ...
In one explosive day, millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth was transformed into hunted fugitive. His home destroyed by the forces of the Butcher, and his reputation in tatters thanks to police incompetence, the man who is really the Spider fights his most desperate battle ever. Can the Master of Men repair his reputation, and reassemble his normal life? Or is there such a thing when you are secretly the Spider? Caught in a lethal crossfir ...
There was no way to crush Judge Torture, the mad legalite whose weird court had strewn the city with broken, dismembered victims. But there was one individual – Richard Wentworth – who, in the guise of the Spider, dared steal the thunder from Judge Torture's terror reign by assuming full responsibility for the master murderer's crimes!… Never before has the Spider become so vulnerable to death – at the hands of policemen, blood-thirsty ...
Summoned to the nation's capital by a cryptic warning, criminologist Richard Wentworth uncovers an insidious plot brewing to violently overthrow the United States of America! Before he can swing into action as the Spider, Wentworth's worst fears are realized! On the floor of the Senate, a courageous Senator commits suicide. The President of the United States has been targeted for assassination! Official Washington is in the grip of a v ...
A plague of blindness sweeps through Manhattan. Thousands of New Yorkers are stricken. Will the entire city go blind? Once again, Richard Wentworth dons the terrible black garments of the Spider. Once more, the Master of Men plunges into a nightmare of horror against which all lawful authorities are helpless. But this time he faces a foe more cruel and merciless than any before. Amoy! King of the Eyeless Terror. This time the Spider falls into t ...
From out of the mystic East comes a new foe for the Spider-and a vicious new threat! When tropical orchids begin taking root in living people, their insidious tendrils penetrating helpless bodies, strangling vital organs, Richard Wentworth knows that a hideous new menace has manifested in civilization. For the Golden Dragon has descended upon New York. The Golden Dragon, whose deadly Blood Orchids feed off living flesh, and whose goal is unknown ...
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 th ...
