When sabotage and slaughter stalk, the Black Bat gets into the biggest battle of his life as he strives to stamp out a Satanic Axis menace to America!
Even though The Black Bat donned a mask and outfit to carry on his fight against crime, that alter ego did not drift too far from his actual identity, Tony Quinn, Special Attorney. As both Quinn and The Black Bat, he fought evil, going after the underworld with tools tailor made to each identity, the law for Quinn and guns for The Black Bat. It wasn’t like putting the mask on made Quinn someone else, it simply gave him the ability to go outside of his own moral code and to strike at those who would do innocents harm. This aspect of the character is one of the likely contributing factors to the longevity of the series.
Even by 1939, readers still sought out Pulp magazines primarily for escapism. This became even more important when World War II began in earnest in just over a year. Needing a way to deal with the real world, readers of all types and ages turned to Pulps to get a break from reality. Even with that, however, they also tended to connect strongly with characters that they could identify with in some way. The Black Bat provided this kind of connection. Tony Quinn was a wounded soul, a man who fought his way back from blindness with a mission to strike out against evil. Even though a wealthy attorney, Quinn went after criminals that haunted headlines and threatened common people every day. This very probably proved important to readers, giving them multiple reasons to cheer The Black Bat onto victory.
Thrill to The Nazi Spy Murders, originally published in Black Book Detective #54 November 1942 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Counter-Spy
Chapter 2: Rat Nest
Chapter 3: Allies of the Black Bat
Chapter 4: Consultation
Chapter 5: Visitor in Black
Chapter 6: A Spy’s Cunning
Chapter 7: Hide and Seek
Chapter 8: Desperate Measures
Chapter 9: Silk’s Dilemma
Chapter 10: Heinrich — the Killer
Chapter 11: Spy Nest
Chapter 12: Satan’s Code
Chapter 13: Invitation to Paradise
Chapter 14: Tropic Island
Chapter 15: Island of Despair
Chapter 16: The Black Bat’s Ruse
Chapter 17: Midnight Conference
Chapter 18: The Devil’s Henchmen
Chapter 19: Battle to the Death
