Overlord of the DamnedOct. 1935
The Boss unleashes horrible death with his demonic acid guns...wait a vat of the same deadly corrosive reserved for those who talk too much! With his beloved Nita Van Sloan a hostage to a terrible doom, the Spider faced the soul-tearing prospect of planting the Spider seal on his friend Stanley Kirkpatrick, Commissioner of Police!
Dictator's Death MerchantsJul. 1940
The jaws of death gape open when El Crocodilo feasts! With uncanny skill, he forestalls even the Spider's best attempts to trap him. Striking without mercy, this menace from the past rises anew by demolishing a banking institution each night, in a mad scheme to take control of nothing less than all of America's finances!
Overlord of the Damned & Dictator's Death Merchantsde Soto - 07/40 Alternate Cover
The Corpse Broker & Volunteer Corpse Brigade
THE CORPSE BROKER
A ten percent commission on murder...that was the fee charged by the Master of the Green Death! In return, he guaranteed immunity from police prosecution, and any officer that dared to challenge him, died. With New York in the clutches of this deadly criminal mastermind, the SPIDER sets out to stop wholesale murder that turns the dead green!
VOLUNTEER CORPSE BRIGADE
Deadly plague-germs are used against the nation as Smiler Miordan issues the statement that "Might is Right!" crushing all who oppose him. Himself affected by the virus, Richard Wentworth, alias the SPIDER, rallied a band of patriotic lepers to stem the tide of murder set in motion by the criminal Underworld Union!
The Devil's CandlesticksMurder, mayhem, robbery...all committed by men whose names graed the upper ranks of society. Powerless under the mystic spell of a strange league of murderers from the East, the cream of the city's elite stage a campaign of crime that puts the Underworld to shame. Richard Wentworth saw the menace...but even the Spider may be too late!
Revolt of the UnderworldIn an effort to rule the land, a group of ruthless ciminals hire the Fox to do their dirty work. No murder is too ghastly, no crime too monstrous for him...as the men who thought to use him find out! No mere underling, the Fox soon takes charge and establish a reign of terror like no other. And his first challenge is to kill the Spider!
Slaves of the DragonThe Dragon heads a white slavery ring that is stripping America of its women! No woman is safe, and those that disappear into the harems are never heard from again. With his own beloved Nita a target, Richard Wentworth battles as the Spider to save his lvoe and the wives and sweethearts of scores of others from a fate worse than death!
The Spider and His Hobo ArmyThe Order of the Double Cross paralyzes America with a crimson reign of terror! With the nation reeling from their staggering assault, Richard Wentworth, alias the Spider, once more charges to save his country from destruction. Shunned by the forces of the law, a wounded Spider struggles on desperately, aided by a band of ragged hoboes!
7x10128 pagesISBN: 9780982089132Cover Artist: Rafael de Soto
#70 - The Spider and the Slaves of Hell
"A frantic warning that his home is about to blw up has Richard Wentworth racing against time to save his beloved Nita, who lies bed-ridden with crippling injuries! At the same time the police prepare to invade the house, with false evidence against him of murder. The SPIDER soon finds himself battling a mad dynamiter who blows his enemies to pieces!"
#110 - ZARA—MASTER OF MURDER
"He called himself Zara, and his specialty was murder...not just by his own hand, but by forcing strong men to yield to him and commit horrible acts they woudl never ordinarily contemplate! No ordinary person was safe from his evil will...not even the SPIDER's own fiancee, Nita Van Sloan...nor eve the SPIDER himself!"
The Silver Death Rain & Hell Rolls On The Highway
#66 - March 1939The Red Death Rain
#108 - September 1942Hell Rolls On The Highways
The Spider Magazine, #20 May 1935: REIGN OF THE DEATH FIDDLER
At exactly eleven-thirty every Thursday night, the Death Fiddler conducted an orchestra of doom for his next victim! Indulging a sinister sense of the grotesque, he appears the night before in the guise of his intended victims... complete with fake death-wounds. A terrified Underworld bowed to a new murder maestro until the Spider joined in!
The Spider Magazine, #55 April 1938: CITY OF WHISPERING DEATH
No witness would testify, no criminal dared talk while the Whisper of Doom lurked unseen... for those that heard those sibilant murmurs died horribly! What strange, invisible weapon sliced through flesh and blood without a trace? How can even the Spider hope to combat a criminal empire that none dare speak out against?
The Mayor of Hell & Fangs of the Dragon
GIRASOL PULP DOUBLES VOLUME 15: THE SPIDERBy Grant Stockbridge
Two action-packed 1930s & 40s adventures of the pulp-era hero, The Spider! The stories are complete including the original pulp black and white illustrations. This issue contains "The Mayor of Hell" (#28 January 1936) and "Fangs of the Dragon" (#107 August 1942).
Slaves of the Murder Syndicate [02/36]Betrayed by none other than Nita van Sloan, the SPIDER struggles alone against a deadly murder syndicate!
Pirates From Hell [08/40]Crippling vital railways, a band of murderous land pirates threaten to bring the nation to a halt!
Girasol Collectables
7x10128 pagesJohn Newton Howitt cover artist
THE SPIDER 06/34Satan's Death Blast by Grant Stockbridge [Norvell Page]
THE SPIDER 02/42Murder's Legionnaires by Grant Stockbridge [Norvell Page]
128 pages7x10Rafael de Soto Cover ArtReset type editionLimited copies on hand
THE SPIDER Scourge of the Yellow Fangs by Grant Stockbridge [Norvell Page]
THE SPIDER 04/42Death and the Spider by Grant Stockbridge [Norvell Page]
THE SPIDER 07/34The Corpse Cargo by Grant Stockbridge [Norvell Page]
THE SPIDER 04/42SLAVES OF THE RING by Grant Stockbridge [Norvell Page]
128 pages7x10John Howitt Cover ArtReset type editionLimited copies on hand
THE SPIDERSpider Strikes by R.T.M. Scott
THE SPIDERSatan's Workshop by Grant Stockbridge [Norvell Page]
7x10128 pagesAlternate Cover Available75th Anniversary Issue - Includes the very first Spider NovelJohn Howitt or Walter Baumhofer Cover Art
THE SPIDERSatan's Sightless Legion by Grant Stockbridge
128 pages 7x10 Cover Artist: John Howitt
The Gentleman From Hell
THE SPIDER 03/42The Gentleman From Hell by Grant Stockbridge
THE SPIDER 02/38The City of Lost Men by Grant Stockbridge
THE SPIDER - Unpublished storyThe Wings of Kali [Short Story] - 05/42
THE SPIDER 04/41Slaves of the Burning Blade by Grant Stockbridge [Norvell Page]
THE SPIDER 12/35Emperor of the Yellow Death by Grant Stockbridge [Norvell Page]
