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The Spider #31 Audiobook
The Cholera King
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
Death in its ugliest form ravaged America. An ambitious, clever madman, master of a far-flung criminal empire, spread cholera germs through every rank and class of a large and totally unsuspecting populace. Numbed by terror, the citizens fled from certain death... while the police, baffled and powerless, campaigned relentlessly against the Spider, the only man able to save the stricken and bring the Plague Master to justice!
Meet the Spider—Master of Men! More just than the Law...more dangerous than the Underworld. Hated, wanted, feared by both! Alone and desperate, he wages a deadly, one-man war against the super-criminals whose long-planned crime-coup will snuff a thousand lives! Can the Spider prevent this slaughter of innocents? This was how the editors of The Spider magazine first introduced their avenging new hero.
During the difficult decade encompassed by the years 1933-1943, a commanding figure blazed his way through a legion of Depression-era super-criminals, Nazi spies and saboteurs. He was wealthy criminologist Richard Wentworth. He was also secretly the Spider!
Never before or since has there been a hero like the Spider. For ten grim years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. Driven, hunted, and violently committed to exterminating criminals of all calibers. A self-appointed savior of humanity, driven manic-depressive, and possibly undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, the Spider was known as the Master of Men.
Once more,the incomparable Nick Santa Maria reads another thrilling Spider exploit. The Cholera King originally published in The Spider magazine, April, 1936.
Chapter 1: The Black Cross
Chapter 2: Catapult
Chapter 3: Plague City
Chapter 4: Battle For a City
Chapter 5: Disaster!
Chapter 6: The Man in Scarlet
Chapter 7: “Save Me, Spider!”
Chapter 8: The Exodus
Chapter 9: Death for the Spider!
Chapter 10: Nita's Choice
Chapter 11: Death's Harvest
Nick Santa Maria Nick was born early in life in Brooklyn, NY. His theatrical background is based in Comedy Improv. He was a long standing member of the late lamented Miami based, Mental Floss, where he served as head writer/composer. From there he began his career in commercials, voice-overs, TV, Film, and theatre. He has performed in many roles on the stage including his award winning turn as Nick in Over The River And Through The Woods, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, in The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee as Mr. Panch (3-D Theatricals), Mr. Bromhead in No Sex Please, We’re British at The Norris, and as Pseudolus in, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Norris Theatre. Television: The Buffalo Bill Show, B.J. Stryker, and two Disney Christmas Specials. Off Broadway: Writer/Composer/Performer on Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know, Soundtrack on RCA Victor. Broadway: Vince Fontaine in Tommy Tune’s production of Grease. He also appeared in every domestic company of Mel Brooks’ The Producers, understudying everyone from Nathan Lane and Jason Alexander, to Tony Danza and David Hassellhoff. He was the original Genie in Disney’s Aladdin, a Musical Spectacular, soundtrack on Disney Records. Nick is a resident of Los Angeles and is currently writing a book about classic film comedians, Nick’s been a long time film historian, and has written several articles on the topic.
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