Download Spider #38, November 1936 AudioBook Free
Looting, murdering bands of desperadoes roamed the avenues of New York like wanton jackals who damaged what they cannot devour. An underworld Juggernaut had been unleashed upon Manhattan, making it a place of desolation and terror. The Thuggees of the East, those experts of murder, the cruel minions of Tang-akhmut, organised metropolis in a state of siege. One man could save New York - Richard Wentworth, the avenging Spider, and Richard Wentworth, hunted by the police, hated by the underworld he fought, had been ordered shot on sight! The fantastic pulp newspapers of the 1930s and 40s produced many heroes, but none as action-oriented as the Spider. From Oct 1933 to Dec 1943, the Spider was the scourge of the Underworld, doling out his own particular make of justice and imprinting his feared red Spider seal on the foreheads of these he has wiped out for the nice of mankind. The Spider implemented the proven pulp pattern of any prosperous man-about-town, Richard Wentworth III, get better at of disguise, dilettante of the arts, in perfect health, and completely devoted to the quest for justice for the down-trodden. Secretly donning a decrepit dark head wear, a tattered dark cape, a incorrect hunch to his shoulders, a lank wig of stringy hair, an application of sinister face make-up and a pair of .45 automatics, Wentworth prowls the avenues of New York as his alter-ego the Spider, running after down unlawful masterminds bent on enslaving or destroying humanity. Nick Santa Maria assumes the dual persona of Richard Wentworth and his arachnid alter-ego because of this nail-biting music rendition of City of Dreadful Nighttime. Originally released in The Spider magazine, November, 1936.
