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Title: Spider #15, December 1934
Subtitle: The Spider
Author: Grant Stockbridge, RadioArchives.com
Narrator: Nick Santa Maria
Format: Original Recording
Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-24-14
Publisher: RadioArchives.com
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic
Publisher's Summary:
During the difficult decade encompassed by the years 1933-43, a commanding figure blazed his way through a legion of Depression-era supercriminals, Nazi spies and saboteurs. He was wealthy criminologist Richard Wentworth. He was also secretly The Spider!
Never before or since has there been a hero like him. Driven, hunted, and violently committed to exterminating criminals of all calibers. A self-appointed savior of humanity, driven manic-depressive, and possibly undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, The Spider was known as the Master of Men.
For this latest release in our Will Murray Pulp Classics series of audiobooks, we asked our customers to pick their favorite Spider novel for recording. Many stories were nominated, but none outpolled any other. We did discover that most of you wanted to hear brought to life one of Norvell Page's epic tales pitting the Master of Men against a villain in the vein of Fu Manchu, Dr. Yen Sin or Marvel Comics' the Mandarin.
So we selected The Red Death Rain, the first of these white-hot face offs, wherein a malevolent mastermind has poisoned all of the liquor, cigarettes and coffee available to Manhattan. His name: The Red Mandarin. It's well known that Marvel Comics' writer Stan Lee was a faithful follower of The Spider magazine during his Depression youth. Could Lee have been thinking of this story when he created the Iron Man villain known as the Mandarin? You decide.
First printed in the December, 1934 issue of The Spider, The Red Death Rain is a thrill ride from start to finish, and boasts the most electrifying final scene in any of Page's thrilling works. Many consider it the most unforgettable novel of the entire series.
Once more, Nick Santa Maria brings the action to vibrant life, narrating with a fever-pitch intensity worthy of the bloody pulps.
Members Reviews:
The Spider storyline could have been better.
No red death rain but evil orientals and other villains cause people who smoke cigarettes to die horrible deaths, and The Spider is blamed. Nita is kidnapped by the villains and promised a horrible death unless The Spider joins the villains who plan to kill millions across America. Kirkpatrick is turned into Wentworth's/The Spider's deadliest enemy. With few clues, The Spider struggles to make sense of what is happening while one step ahead of death. Don't forget to read the Doc Turner backup story where the old chemist is chased by the police, accused of burning people to death.
Luridly wonderful
This is when the Spider books start to go ape-poop crazy (literally, as you'll see if you read it). I read the Carroll & Graf reprint of this in the 90s, and still vividly remember the last line of the novel, which has to be one of the all time great, bizarro ends of a pulp novel ever. What I had forgotten from the last read was the surreal Christmas tableaus thrown in, and the Lynchian seduction scenes. There must have been something in the water in 1934, and Norvell Page (aka G. Stockbridge) was drinking it. Reading this is a tall glass of that water. Enjoy.
THE SPIDER strikes again
I have not yet read this story but all the others were great , no time to catch breath all action I look forward to reading this!