Monster of the Day #3247

Updated on August 23, 2021 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

I hope you guys like pulp covers, because when I get on those I stick with them for a while. For anyone who never read pulps, The Spider was basically the Shadow if he were also the Punisher. The Spider slaughtered criminals in every book. Anyway, whenever he wasn’t fighting mad scientists or Yellow Menace types, he occasionally fought some horror-themed villains. Or the covers featured probably metaphorical skeletons. Whatever, it all works for me.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    I’m pretty sure the Spider was Stan Lee’s original inspiration for Spider-Man.

  • bgbear_rnh

    I’m just a murder machine and wont kill for nobody but you

  • Gamera977

    ‘Satan’s Murder Machines’! I’d buy the darn thing just from the name! Why don’t we get titles like that anymore?

    And taking the puppet master and his murder machines on with a blowtorch while dressed in a suit and tie with a lady in a cocktail dress at your feet- people had style back then!!!

  • Rock Baker

    The Spider also had some comic book adventures. I actually drew one for a revival project in 1940’s style.

  • Eric Hinkle

    If you check around on Amazon and elsewhere you may find some of the reprints of these books. I know that Altus Press is doing the whole Spider series, issues #1 – #110.

    I have this one from a Baen ‘Spider Double’ of some years ago and it is every bit as insane as that art promises. The other story is even better: ‘Death Reign of the Vampire King’, where the Spider fights the Bat Man and his hordes of giant vampire bats. Best scene in the story: a crowded Times Square is attacked by the bloodthirsty bats and hundreds perish as the Spider battles like a madman just to save his own life!

  • Ken_Begg

    Neat!

  • Ken_Begg

    Most of these had “Satan’s…” as titles. Some of them are hilariously prosaic. “Satan’s Humidor”, that sort of thing.

  • Gamera977

    That sounds AWESOME!!!

  • Eric Hinkle

    I love the later books of both the Spider and G-8 just for how insane the titles got. Flying Coffins of the Damned, The Black Buzzard Flies to Hell, Bombs from the Murder Wolves…