Download Spider #64, January 1939: The Spider AudioBook Free
For our latest Spider audiobook, we've jumped ahead in time to 1939 and one of the most dramatic and horrific exploits of Richard Wentworth's nightmarish profession. "Exploits" is probably not the operative term for Claws of the Golden Dragon. It's actually one of the most extreme ordeals the Grasp of Men ever endured in his decade-long profession as a criminal offense hunter. And that is expressing a hell of an lot!It begins with the entrance in NY of a Chinese language supercriminal known as the Golden Dragon. His true id shrouded in secrecy, the Dragon projects to loot America to be able to gas his prepared conquest of Asia. Creator Novell W. Web page took his inspiration from Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu , naturally. The editors at Popular Magazines adored the sinister Oriental arch-villain. They printed Dr. Yen Sin, The Mysterious Wu Fang, and frequently pitted their other heroes, like Operator 5 and G-8, against similar individuals scourges. The Golden Dragon is one of the worst of the.Claws of the Golden Dragon dates from the period when The Spider mag was infused with Strange Menace elements, like the fare proposed by companion newspapers Terror Stories and Horror Tales. In cases like this, the Golden Dragon has cultivated a hothouse orchid that insinuates its suffocating root base and tendrils in to the victim's still-beating center! Forget Terror Stories, this is Strange Tales territory.Web page milks this new menace for many it's worth. Victims begin succumbing in the first section. And by enough time Richard Wentworth and the valiant Nita truck Sloan have battled to beat the Blood vessels Orchids, they too show up victim to the most hideous doom!Has Norvell Web page gone too far this time? May also the Spider endure this soul-paralyzing predicament? Or will he and his beloved be buried with the own private funeral flowers feeding from their quit hearts?Once again, Nick Santa Maria assumes the dual persona of Richard Wentworth and his arachnid alter-ego because of this nail-biting audio tracks rendition of the January, 1939 problem of The Spider. Michael C. Gwynne reads the thrilling Doc Turner history by Arthur Leo Zagat, "Death's Wedding March!"
