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Spider (The Maser of Men! No 5)
by Grant Stockbridge
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub (1993-04)
ISBN: 0881849863
EAN: 9780881849868
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Paperback: 317 pages
SKU: 3398
Condition: As New
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: As New.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The Spider, a pulp favorite for 60 years, returns in two rapid-fire adventures. In the first, Judgment of the Damned, The Spider defends the innocent against the insidious evil of Judge Torture. The Master of the Flame Men sets all of Gotham City afire in Master of the Flaming Horde. Only The Spider can put a stop to this incendiary madness.
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Customer Reviews
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Adventures of a great pulp hero
Rating  (4)
Date: 2003-01-30
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
While the Spider has often been compared to the Shadow, he was really more like the now forgotten "Operator Number Five", or perhaps even Doc Savage, an adventurer, not a detective, literally a crime FIGHTER: The Spider didn't bring criminals to justice. He hunted impossibly wierd super criminals and killed them. Lots of them. The books are savage, colorful, and strangely enough, in Norvell Page's hands, far better written than most of the pulp novels of the day (as good or better than William Gibson's Shadow novels)However, Amazon.com has mistakenly listed the contents of most of these Carrol and Graff reprints. Volume one contains THE SECRET CITY OF CRIME and THE SPIDER AND THE PAIN MASTER, Volume three, DEATH'S CRIMSON JUGGERNAUT and THE RED DEATH RAIN, four, DEATH REIGN OF THE VAMPIRE KING and THE PAIN EMPEROR, five, JUDGEMENT OF THE DAMNED and MASTER OF THE FLAMING HORDE, while six contains the two listed on most of these pages, SLAVES OF THE LAUGHING DEATH and SATAN'S MURDER MACHINES
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All the excesses of the pulps without the guilty pleasures
Rating  (2)
Date: 2001-03-14
0 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was always curious about the Spider, described to me as a more bloodthirsty version of the Shadow. Well, the "bloodthirsty" part was correct. The Spider takes all the conventions of the Shadow, blazing guns, long suffering girlfriend, cape, slouching hat, and does a poor imitation. Hundreds of people die at the hands of evil masterminds in both novellas and the Spider is in a constant state of rage throughout. Rage is the basic emotion and even that emotion is not effectively conveyed to the reader. Exclamation points are used throughout the novels for the purpose of creating excitement, it's the written equivalent of constantly screaming at the reader, it loses it's effect very quickly and in the end becomes annoying. The only reason for two stars instead of one is the general excitement of the first tale(The Devil's Paymaster)which at least tries to be creative.These stories lack the sheer mystery of the Shadow or the escapist fun of Doc Savage. Stick with them if your a fan of this genre.
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Super Deal
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-04-29
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
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.
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Must...Destroy...Ohio!
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-04-27
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
You're a centuries old master villian. You're after loot and destruction and destroying everything good and decent in the world. So naturally you concentrate on destroying the bridges and sewer system of Cincinatti, Ohio! Kind of a kooky pulp-premise, but the SPIDER is up to the challenge as always! (Part II of IV)
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What next?
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-04-19
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
First they destroy his good name. Then they turn his friends against him. Then they take the millions. Then they kidnap his girl. They even take the penthouse apartment. But all this doesn't make THE SPIDER mad. Because THE SPIDER doesn't get mad; he gets even. Weather Forecast: Bad Times for Bad Guys!
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