The Black Bat, scourge of the underworld, battles to stem a vicious tide of hideous crime — risking his own eyes to aid victims deprived of their sight!
Throughout over sixty stories, The Black Bat fought for the most part street level criminals, those that might terrorize any city’s populace. This came largely from Tony Quinn’s work as a District Attorney prior to the accident that left him blind for a period of time. Even though there were very few true monsters or even mad scientists that ever encountered The Black Bat, that doesn’t mean that Quinn’s enemies were always simply run of the mill thugs. He pursued murderous arsonists burning down tenements for money. He confronted an evil genius who essentially took over a hospital for his vile experiments as well as a hypnotist intent on having others do his criminal bidding. From jail breaks to bank robberies, The Black Bat faces crime of all sorts, but often finds himself against the weird and almost unexplained, such as two different instances where predictions of death come true as murder. The Black Bat even confronts The Devil, or at least a man who proves he’s The Devil, until The Black Bat reveals he’s only another criminal.
With the stories written primarily in the 1940s and 50s, it isn’t surprising that The Black Bat also battles against those wanting to destroy The United States. From chasing stolen diamonds that are crucial to America’s wartime involvement to taking on Nazi Bundhists, The Black Bat joined other Pulp heroes in making sure that readers knew they, too, supported the efforts of the United States in World War II.
Thrill to The Eyes of the Blind, originally published in Black Book Detective #49 January 1942 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Blinding Light
Chapter 2: Blind Visitor
Chapter 3: Laboratory Raid
Chapter 4: The Black Bat Takes a Hand
Chapter 5: Surprise Attack
Chapter 6: The Missing Inventor
Chapter 7: Death Masks
Chapter 8: House of Danger
Chapter 9: The Man of the House
Chapter 10: New Client
Chapter 11: Silk’s Problem
Chapter 12: A Bat Is Blind
Chapter 13: World of Darkness
Chapter 14: Orders Defied
Chapter 15: Trap for the Black Bat
Chapter 16: Death Advertises
Chapter 17: Silk Hits the Trail
Chapter 18: The Black Bat’s Warning
Chapter 19: Pink Eyes
Chapter 20: The Black Bat’s Victory
