Tony Quinn probes the fiendish evil of Voodoo to crush the crime it cloaks when a mighty band of the lawless hurls its defiance against justice! The Bat and his daring aides go forth to battle a sinister, mysterious organization of terror...
Although Norman A. Daniels was the writer behind the house name G Wayman Jones writing The Black Bat for the majority of the series, other writers contributed work as well throughout the character’s fourteen year run. Writers such as Whit Elsworth and Stewart Sterling have been connected to The Black Bat series over the years, but proving their contributions has been a bit difficult, due primarily to scarcity of records from both Thrilling and the authors themselves.
One author who did contribute three stories to The Black Bat series was Laurence Donovan, including The Murder Prophet, one of two stories with this title in the canon. A native of Ohio, Donovan broke into writing as a reporter for various papers. He also put in some time as a writer in the early days of Hollywood. His pulp career began in the late 1920s. He proved early on that not only was he willing to write in any genre, he actually had the skill to do so, adapting to more sophisticated subjects for some magazines, while contributing also to some of the wilder markets, such as Zeppelin Stories.
Donovan would go on to write nine Doc Savage novels and even create the well-known character The Skipper for Street and Smith. His work on The Black Bat bears the distinctive style he brought to all his other work, including an evenly paced build up of suspense partnered with well-constructed characterizations. Donovan’s stories stand up alongside some of Daniels’ best work in The Black Bat series.
Thrill to The Black Bat’s Crusade, originally published in Black Book Detective #39 May 1940 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Death’s Chessmen
Chapter 2: Ouanga Bag
Chapter 3: The Mute Death
Chapter 4: The Walking Corpse
Chapter 5: Wings of the Bat
Chapter 6: Again — Silent Death
Chapter 7: The Laugh on McGrath
Chapter 8: Plans for Action
Chapter 9: The Bat Revealed
Chapter 10: The Trap
Chapter 11: The Face Under the Mask
Chapter 12: Fifty Grand Bundle
Chapter 13: The Bat Intervenes
Chapter 14: A Double for Bait
Chapter 15: The Elusive Bat
Chapter 16: Butch Takes a Trip
Chapter 17: The Token
Chapter 18: The Bat Takes the Trail
Chapter 19: Five Go Free
Chapter 20: The End of Zuro
