Download Spider #13 October 1934: The Spider AudioBook Free
By what unusual twist of Fate did the fearful menace, which was to shadow every man and female in New York City, first back its venomous mind in the faraway Caribbean? When terror instantly boarded just a little tramp steamer and left crimson havoc littering its thin decks, a spluttering wireless flashed the doom of every living thing aboard. Within a week, the same ghastly fate struck a gigantic new sea liner, its luxurious cabins occupied by the elite and powerful of twelve different nations! Fatality - swift and horrendous - rode the sea lanes. Along with the Spider - taken for once off safeguard - was supposedly dying in a hospital room on the very day when that terror from the seas first revealed itself above metropolis skyline. How can the Spider, fighting fatality himself, help the country he is in love with in her hour of best need? The great pulp periodicals of the 1930s and '40s produced lots of heroes, but none of them as action oriented as the Spider. From October 1933 to Dec 1943, the Spider was the scourge of the underworld, doling out his own particular brand of justice and imprinting his feared red Spider seal on the foreheads of these he wiped out for the nice of mankind. The Spider followed the proven pulp pattern of a rich man-about-town, Richard Wentworth III, professional of disguise, dilettante of the arts, in perfect health, and completely devoted to the pursuit of justice for the downtrodden, regardless of what the cost to himself or loved ones. Secretly donning a decrepit dark-colored hat, a tattered dark-colored cape, a false hunch to his shoulders, a lank wig of stringy scalp, a credit card applicatoin of sinister face makeup, and a set of .45 automatics, Wentworth prowls the roads of NY as his Spider alter ego, chasing after down criminal masterminds bent on enslaving or destroying humanity. Nick Santa Maria reads "Builders of the Dark Empire" with all the current depth of his superb talent. Originally shared in The Spider journal, October 1934.
