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 the trap of all traps–the dark, inescapable pit of...
His purpose was to control America's vast resources, so that he might sell them to Europe's highest-bidding war monger for fabulous millions. So powerful were his weapons: induced insanity, living cholera bacteria, a hideous hypnosis… that all who opposed him became his vassals – until Richard Wentworth in the guise of the Spider risked all he held dear in the grimmest battle of his crime-fighting life! Follow the Spider, Master of Men, as he dodges gangland guns and police bullets in...
Thousands of busy persons bent over their desks in the tallest building in the world – conducting the commerce of the nation – when suddenly the steel girders began to creak and twist, and the gigantic edifice swayed giddily in the rising wind. Never before had criminal brains devised a more cunning or a more horrible weapon to garner their ill-gotten treasures. And never before was the Spider so strenuously put to test – for the Master, the man behind the devastation and death, eluded every...
The most fearful terror ever to be visited upon a city had struck with malicious force and suddenness at Cincinnati. So fiendish were the machinations of the misshapen and malignant little monsters who were making the city their unholy playground, Richard Wentworth, famed as the Spider, knew that only one man could be directing them in their devil's sport. Only Tang-akhmut, the sinister Egyptian, the man whose vices were ageless and uncounted, could be engineering those wholesale murders,...
America's greatest metropolis struggled hopelessly in the toils of starvation – victim of the world's most unscrupulous impostor – a criminal red Spider whose underworld cohorts had slashed the city's life-giving arteries and established a bloody rule! While hollow-cheeked Famine left its ghastly imprint upon whimpering, peaked-faced little children, Richard Wentworth, in the real Spider's eerie guise, took up their desperate cause – to wage death-battle against his most...
Exactly at eleven-thirty each Thursday night the Death Fiddler conducted his unholy orchestra in a symphony of murder which sounded the doom of some marked victim. A master of the grotesque, he held an entire city in the strangle-hold of a helpless terror; even the forces of the Law stood in shuddery, superstitious fear of this new destroyer. And then the Spider, Master of Men, modern knight-errant of mankind, rose up against him! But the Spider, too, was baffled; not all Richard...
Across these broad United States swept the grisly hordes of LaFitte, modern counterpart of ancient, blood-thirsty piracy. In their horrible wake remained only red ruin and the charred skeletons of the Nation's crack trains… Such was the criminal blitzkrieg of LaFitte, the brutal buccaneer no man dared challenge – save Richard Wentworth… alias the Spider! How can millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth, secretly the Spider, battle such an appalling menace and survive to tell the tale? Go...
A powerful menace has targeted the United States of America-the Silver King and his Silver Assassins. Their goal: the overthrow of the U.S. government by mob rule. Their method: wholesale murder-beginning with the nation's law makers! Tipped off to the threat, millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth sets out to smash the plot–as the Spider! The headlong action begins in the depths of a Colorado silver mine where U. S. senators have been targeted for slaughter, careens through the...
Richard Wentworth – who, as the swift-killing Spider, is the scourge of the Underworld – thought the Fly was dead. But once more that most formidable enemy had arisen, pillaging, slaying wantonly, armed with a ghastly new weapon, the Green Globes of Death! Ruthless and astute, heading a gigantic criminal syndicate, the Fly was butchering innocent persons only, it seemed, to see their red blood flow. It was with flagging hope and heavy heart that the Spider took up his newest battle with the...
Beautiful girls, in the first bloom of youth, suddenly struck blind, their once sparkling eyes turned to glassy gray marbles. Strong men groping, sightless and helpless, in terrifying darkness. The Blind Man, he called himself, and it mattered little to him how many people he blinded in his mad lust for wealth and power. Just as a cobra sprays blinding venom into the eyes of its victims, so the Blind Man paralyzed the eyes of all who stood in his way. Even Richard Wentworth, the avenging Spider,...