Looting, murdering bands of desperadoes roamed the streets of New York like wanton jackals who destroyed what they could not devour. An underworld Juggernaut had been unleashed upon Manhattan, turning it into a place of desolation and terror. The Thuggees of the East, those masters of murder, the cruel minions of Tang-akhmut, held the city in a state of siege. One man could save New York – Richard Wentworth, the avenging Spider, and Richard Went ...
In the heart of New York's Chinatown, on his imperial throne, guarded by swordsmen and gunmen and a labyrinth of death traps, sat the Arch-Criminal of all time. Master of life and death, of disease, of horrible, crawling things – the Emperor of Vermin released destruction over city and nation. The Spider, Master of Men, champion of humanity, fought with every ounce of his cunning, against the monster who personified evil incarnate – while o ...
Never before had the destruction of Richard Wentworih, alias the Spider, seemed so imminent. For El Crocodilo, mysterious crime king from the past, forestalled Dick's every move – even influencing Nita van Sloan to lead the man she loved into the most perfect deathtrap ever set to catch the Master of Men! Harried on all sides, the target of Underworld assassins and police arrest warrants alike, the Spider gives no quarter as he races to bri ...
When Nita van Sloan appeared ready to expose Richard Wentworth as a calculating cold-blooded murderer, Wentworth knew with stunning clarity that the Council of Evil – a body formed by his worst past enemies – possessed new, ghastly weapons with which to make the city a private field of slaughter!… Follow the Spider, Master of Men, through his most hazardous and mystifying exploit! How can millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth, secretly the ...
Never before had greedy, criminal genius loosed so loathsome and deadly a weapon! The Bat Man – leading a band of savages, releasing clouds of bloodthirsty vampire bats – planned to make himself a greater conqueror than Napoleon or Genghis Khan! One man stood in his way – Richard Wentworth, who when the Law fails, sallies forth as the dread Spider to spread red death in the Underworld. And the Spider – his beloved Nita forfeited, his loyal serva ...
Pitiless, astute, ambitious, yellow-skinned Wang-ba emerged from the mystic Orient to proclaim himself Emperor of America! Sight of his green face caused bloodcurdling terror; his anger could be appeased only by soul-twisting agony and writhing, long-lasting death… Such was the criminal genius whom Richard Wentworth had to kill. Never before has the Spider been squeezed so tightly between the vise-jaws of the Law and the Lawless. Nor has he ever ...
Throughout the dives of the Underworld and in the dens of criminals, the news was spread in eager whispers: «The Boss will get the Spider! He'll make himself the biggest shot in the country!»… But those nearest the criminal genius sat silent, remembering the horrible acid vat reserved for those who talked too much. Richard Wentworth – that grim Spider who strikes when the Law fails or dares not – faces the bitterest decision of his life. Hi ...
Over Manhattan's dizzy towers fell that insidious, invisible menace – an unseen cloud of death that first transformed the entire metropolis into a laughing, drunken riot and then blasted it to bits! Who was the evil Master of these Flame Men, who had found a real way to amass millions by gutting New York with fire? In defense of those reeling, giggling victims, trapped in their awesome death-spree, Richard Wentworth, in the Spider's we ...
How could a lone man, ceaselessly hunted by the law and a deadly under-world alike, hope to save the terrified city from the Iron Man – a super-being whose cohorts were giant, unconquerable robots of steel! Read how the Master of Men rose up to crush the invincible killers who dealt destruction at every step. Another dramatic, pulse-quickening Spider novel! Follow the Spider, Master of Men, as he dodges gangland guns and police bullets in anothe ...
