To talk to Sidney Trexel meant death — until Tony Quinn, wrecker of criminals, stepped into the case and began racing a sinister pattern of death and plunder that defied solution! Follow the Black Bat as he goes on the elusive and baffling trail of three mysterious ex-convicts!
The Black Bat has much in common with other heroes of the Pulps, including a wealth that readers are left to assume came from his career as an attorney before losing his sight. What overshadows most of these comparisons, however, is the fact that even from the very beginning The Black Bat saw a purpose in going to extraordinary lengths to fight what many would consider common criminals. Mad scientists and super criminals very rarely crossed Tony Quinn’s path in his fight for justice. The Black Bat’s rogue’s gallery included more urbane villains, from gang bosses to murderers to thugs and goons. Although many fans over the years have said that The Black Bat stories might have been better with more grandiose, extreme foes to fight, one of the appeals that kept this series running longer than even Doc Savage and The Shadow rests in the fact that The Black Bat went after evil that his readers likely encountered or at least read about every day.
From Tony Quinn’s first adventure, he is a crime fighter for the common person in his role as district attorney. Even the way in which he loses his sight, at the hands of a common criminal, concretes his resolve to not only continue striving for justice in his own way, but it gives him a laser focus on the type of crook that The Black Bat must pursue. In this, not only does Quinn continue the fight he began as an attorney, but he also proves to the readers that The Black Bat is a hero for the everyman.
Thrill to The Marked Man, originally published in Black Book Detective #65 Spring 1945 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Murder in a Crowd
Chapter 2: Special D.A.
Chapter 3: A Matter for the Black Bat
Chapter 4: Frightened Men
Chapter 5: A Grave for Butch
Chapter 6: Hand of the Law
Chapter 7: Something Beyond Revenge
Chapter 8: Captain McGrath’s Puzzle
Chapter 9: Request for the Unusual
Chapter 10: Flames of Murder
Chapter 11: Murder Is Never an Accident
