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Title: The Purple Scar, Volume 1
Author: Jim Beard, Jonathan Fisher, Gene Moyers, Gary Lovisi
Narrator: Alex Beckham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-09-16
Publisher: RadioArchives.com
Genres: Fiction, Horror
Publisher's Summary:
Horror has a new face
From the pages of the classic pulps comes the most frightening avenger of them all, the Purple Scar! The handsome, debonair Dr. Miles Murdoch was a world-famous plastic surgeon. His life was the stuff of dreams until it all turned into a heart-wrenching nightmare.
Murdoch's brother, a dedicated police officer, is brutally gunned down while on patrol. Before dumping his body into the river, his murderers pour acid over his face as a final act of contempt. When the body washes ashore days later, Officer Murdoch's face is beyond recognition, a scarred, purple visage unlike any horror ever imagined. It is the sight of this death grimace that transforms Miles Murdoch into an avenging angel.
Vowing to bring justice to those responsible, the skilled surgeon molds a pliable rubber mask from that repulsive, mutilated face; a mask he dons to become the Purple Scar, the scourge of crooks and villains everywhere. He has become the physical embodiment of their worst fears brought to fiendish life. Airship 27 now presents four brand new adventures of the creepiest pulp hero of them all, the Purple Scar!
Members Reviews:
New stories of this overlooked pulp hero
The last new pulp hero from Thrilling Publications was the short-lived Purple Scar.
This hero was published in Exciting Detective as their cover feature (maybe hoping to have another success like The Black Bat in Black Book). But it was not to be. After running for three successive issues in 1941-42, the last story was published in 1943. All four stories appeared under the name of John S. Endicott. Altus Press has reprinted the whole series in a single volume.
The Purple Scar is really Dr. Miles Murdock, a successful and well-known plastic surgeon. When his brother, a cop, is brutally murdered, he dons a purple mask made from a mold of his brother's face, to imitate the scarring caused by acid. Using contacts he had made among the down trodden, he starts to work against criminals.
The Purple Scar also has a few assistants. In the first story, we met all three: one is a police detective who is told his identity, and who accepts the Purple Scar's help; the second is his nurse (and possible love interest), Dale Jordon; and the third is the Sticky-Fingered Kid (Tommy Pedlar), a reformed thief now serving as the doctor's aide.
The underworld is apparently scared of the Purple Scar, yet he never kills. So he's by and large not being chased by the police, though he avoids them. He's treated more like a detective then a vigilante, usually bringing all the key players together at the end to expose the guilty party. This is typical of the various Thrilling heroes.
Now, finally, Airship 27 has brought out a collection of new Purple Scar stories after dropping hints for the past year or so. This collection contains four new stories.
One thing that is notable in this collection is that Airship 27 has been prominent in emphasizing what the Purple Scar really looks like. While we have him described in the stories, the artwork we had seen of him doesn't match. Kind of like how The Spider's covers rarely matches what he looked like. So the cover and artwork on this collection emphasis his real and horrifying appearance, as do the stories. I think this is good, as too often the pulp heroes were not used to their full extent.