When John Todd is convicted of murder, the case has some amazing repercussions that put Special District Attorney Tony Quinn, the Nemesis of the underworld, in the toughest spot of his entire career! Follow the Black Bat as he battles to clear himself of grim charges made by his foes!
As Pulp heroes go, The Black Bat walks a fine line between self-made vigilante and actual superhero. As an aggressive, ambitious District Attorney, Quinn angered many of those he prosecuted. One such gangster hated Quinn so much that he threw acid in the lawyer’s face, blinding Quinn and seemingly forever taking him out of the fight against crime. Thanks to a revolutionary surgery, however, Quinn regained his sight due to receiving the transplant of a dead policeman’s eyes. This not only gave him the ability to see again, but it also granted Quinn a power of sorts, the ability to see in the dark as if it were daylight.
After this extraordinary event, Quinn decided to construct a costume and secret identity that would strike terror into the hearts of criminals, choosing to become a vigilante while also still working as a Special Attorney as Quinn. This connects him more closely with characters like The Shadow and The Spider or even Doc Savage, men driven to take the law into their own capable hands. This is why many experts and fans consider Tony Quinn sort of the transition character between the concept of the Pulp Hero and the Superhero in prose fiction. Although costumed types had already shown up in both pulps and comic books, The Black Bat is perhaps the first in the Pulp Magazines to take the best of both worlds and blend them into one stunning character.
Thrill to With Malice Aforethought, originally published in Black Book Detective #71 Fall 1946 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Innocent Dead
Chapter 2: Allies of the Black Bat
Chapter 3: Publicly Accused
Chapter 4: Death Moves Fast
Chapter 5: The Man in Black
Chapter 6: Voice on the Wire
Chapter 7: Deadline
Chapter 8: Booby-Trap
Chapter 9: Start of a Trail
Chapter 10: Home Work
Chapter 11: The Initialed Key
Chapter 12: Castle of Death
Chapter 13: Three Objectives
Chapter 14: Midnight Intruder
Chapter 15: Someone to Talk
Chapter 16: Frightened Witness
Chapter 17: Justly Dead
