Spider #28 The Mayor of Hell, The

Synopsis

One moment, Richard Wentworth he who was feared in the Underworld as the deadly Spider stood playing his priceless Stradivarius. A second later, he was fighting desperately for his life, hunted ruthlessly, like a rabid hound, by the combined forces of the Mayor of Hell: the corrupt Law and the vengeful, criminal syndicates. In a haze of gunsmoke, Wentworth vanishes, while his harassed friends mourn him as dead and his enemies rejoice. Alone without funds of friends or name the Spider must begin afresh, battling against overwhelming odds, to teach the lawless that the sure reward of crime is Death! The Mayor of Hell is torn from the pages of the January, 1936 issue of The Spider magazine.