The Black Bat tackles an unseen nemesis of society — a human scourge who battens on underworld and upperworld alike! Tony Quinn and his aides face grim doom in the pursuit of a master crook!
A skill that made Norman A. Daniels, the author behind the majority of The Black Bat stories and the character’s creator, a truly great author was his ability to build solid, enduring characters. He proves that in his creation of Tony Quinn, a do or die District Attorney who almost does the latter when attacked in the face with a vial of acid while doing his job. In Quinn, Daniels gave readers a man on a mission, a man who was knocked down and got back up on his own two feet, and finally a man who attacked the criminal underworld with such a passion that readers simply had to follow along for fourteen years worth of adventures.
Every good hero, however, needs a good foil. Not necessarily an arch enemy, but someone who is out to get them. The Black Bat found that in Captain McGrath, a police officer. A good friend of Tony Quinn’s, McGrath determines to catch The Black Bat and becomes convinced that the masked vigilante may very well in fact be Special Attorney Tony Quinn, his friend. In various stories, McGrath attempts to prove his theory by trying to catch Quinn in slips of the tongue and even, on at least one occasion, having his eyes examined to prove he wasn’t still blind, which in reality he wasn’t. This didn’t even work for McGrath, however, who was convinced that due to their similar body structure and voices, that Tony Quinn and The Black Bat were indeed one and the same.
Thrill to The Voice of Doom, originally published in Black Book Detective #48 November 1941 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Strange Awakening
Chapter 2: Confession of Guilt
Chapter 3: The Voice Acts
Chapter 4: The Black Bat’s Doubt
Chapter 5: Weird Rendezvous
Chapter 6: Pierlot’s Secret
Chapter 7: Tomb for the Living
Chapter 8: Treasure Hunt
Chapter 9: The Blind Man Sees
Chapter 10: The Man in Hiding
Chapter 11: Council of War
Chapter 12: Attorney for Crime
Chapter 13: The Voice Shows His Colors
Chapter 14: The Black Bat’s Fear
Chapter 15: Strike First
Chapter 16: The Voice Takes an Inning
Chapter 17: Three Glass Bulbs
Chapter 18: Reversed Fate
