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The Spider # 39 : Reign of the Snake Men

1 review
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures, Inc., 2000

Panic on Fifth Avenue!
The SPIDER fights bad guys. Real bad guys. No had-a-difficult-childhood bad guys. No want-to-steal-lots-of-dough-and-live-on-easy-street bad guys. He fights guys like th Living Pharoah, who comes up with a plan to recruit an army of lepers, and have them invade a fashionable Fifth Avenue department store and infect hundreds of innocent women shoppers with the dread disease, thus bringing New ...

The Spider (#45): Voyage of the Coffin Ship

1 review
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures Inc, 1998

Something A Little Different......
THE SPIDER is noted for slam-bang action. In this adventure, the action is there, as always, but there's a real mystery to the plot as well. Very interesting to see how THE SPIDER works his way through the confined-aboard-a-ship plot device.

The Spider (#12): Reign of the Silver Terror

1 review
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures, Inc., 1998

PULP THRILLER!
Pure slam-bang pulp adventure action here. THE SPIDER fights bad guys all across the country. The action is everywhere -- in the sky, in the capital, in the deep mines of Colorado. From a start-in-the-middle-of-the-action opening scene, until the very last page, the pace of pulp action never stops!

The Spider (#48): Machine Guns Over the White House

1 review
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures Inc, 1998

Out of the Headlines..........
Big-time Asian money-men seek to buy into the American political system for their own nefarious purposes. No, it isn't another Al Gore fund-raiser -- it's THE SPIDER battling the Cult of the Cobra, with the fate of the nation at stake.

Hordes of the Red Butcher: The Spider: Master of Men (Hordes of the Red Butcher)

1 review
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures Inc, 1999

The Beasts of Kentucky
No, it's not the UK basketball team, it's a collection of giant wildmen, under the control of a vicious master criminal, bent on -- Well, it's never exactly clear what they're bent on, but clear plots have never been part of THE SPIDER, nor are they that important. The important thing, as always, is slam-bang action. This has somew of the most intense action of any SPIDER story. ...

The Spider #85 : The Council Of Evil

1 review
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures Inc, 2000

...Rising from the Grave, to Kill The SPIDER!
The SPIDER'S normal practice is to ensure he gets credit for his bodycount of criminals by marking them with a vermillion seal of a spider upon their recently deceased foreheads. But, incredibly, a number of these evil-doers have seemingly returned from the grave, to form a veritable Council of Evil, dedicated to destroying The SPIDER. Almost as an afterthought, they want to pull off the ...

The Spider #38 : City Of Dreadful Night (City of Dreadful Night)

1 review
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures Inc, 2000

The SPIDER is Doomed!
Things look bad for Richard Wentworth. The Living Pharaoh, Tang-akhmut, controls the police force. Wentworth's millions are gone, his best friend is accused of murder, his trusted servant is tortured, his girl friend is kidnapped, and there's a $100,000 dead-or-alive price on his head. The SPIDER is about as popular in New York City as John Rocker. But this is just a normal day at the ...

The Spider(#47) : Slaves of the Black Monarch

1 review
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures Inc, 1998

The Jury is Out -- Permanently !
The verdict in New York City is "Not Guilty!" Any judge and jury that doesn't see it that way will meet quick death at the hands of "The Sign of the Scar". Naturally, THE SPIDER stops them. This one is worth it for the great illustration of THE SPIDER rising up out of a coffin to gun down the bad guys.

Zorro The Masters Edition Vol. One (Zorro the Masters Edition)

8 reviews
Johnston McCulley

Pulp Adventures Inc, 2000

Zorro Lover? You'll like this!
McCulley started Zorro and this first collection of his pulp stories are great! Z forever!

Zorro: The Masters Edition Volume Two (1944-1946) (Zorro the Masters Edition)

1 review
Johnston McCulley

Pulp Adventures, 2002

Zorro Rides Tonight!
We tend to forget what a great fictional creation Zorro is. Here are 11 of his classic adventures -- 10 short stories and a novelette -- which have been unavailable for over a half-century. As Zorro or as the languid Don Diego, our hero is resourceful and witty. He fights for the oppressed. Thew soldiers he fights against are honorable and brave, and Zorro respects them, reserving his ...

The Spider (#46): The Man Who Ruled in Hell

1 review
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures Inc, 1998

Mass Transit Strikes Back!
An evil criminal organization is blackmailing New York City's mass transit organizations, and only THE SPIDER can stop them. OK, granted, this is a pretty lame premise, but the action picks up right at the start and never flags. Lots of runaway buses and crashing subways in the fight to the finish.

The Spider (#36) : The Coming of the Terror

5 reviews
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures Inc, 1999

Super Deal
SPIDER stories so inexpensive -- what a great deal! In SLAVES OF THE LAUGHING DEATH, we get the master of disguise super-criminal, while in SATAN'S MURDER MACHINES, we've got giant robots pounding through the streets of New York. These reprints of the 1930's pulps have more action and adventure than anything being published today.

The Spider (#44): The Devil's Pawnbroker

1 review
Grant Stockbridge

Pulp Adventures Inc, 1998

And the winner, for worst SPIDER title - the envelope please
With a title this bad, you know the story has to be good. THE SPIDER is out-of-town fighting bad guys again, with the usual twists and turns to the plot, and two bonus short stories from the 1930's to boot.

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