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The Spider #45 Audiobook
Voyage of the Coffin Ship
by Emile C. Tepperman writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
Coffins and gold lay side by side in the strongroom of the liner that was sailing to its doom. And Richard Wentworth had picked that ship to carry Nita and himself to their long-delayed honeymoon in Europe! Denounced by Baron Otuna as a pirate, assailed by the green men in flaming chaos, he donned once more the Spider’s dusty cloak and well-oiled guns — for an epic battle at sea with a terror that stalked in the great ship’s wake and menaced a thousand lives!
Once, during a respite in a typical blood-and-screaming-bullets carnage tale of the Spider, Police Commissioner Kirkpatrick ticked off a long list of who just might be behind the mask to his friend, Richard Wentworth. Wentworth blurted out this self-revealing truth. “I’m suspicious of everyone,” he admitted, “even of myself sometimes.” And well he should be. For Richard Wentworth was an undiagnosed manic-depressive—if not paranoid schizophrenic—subject to violent mood swings, climbing to unutterable heights of exultation in one scene, then crashing into the blackest depths of despair the next.
Here lies just part of the genius of Norvell W. Page infused into the Spider. Wentworth had a secret identity, but hardly anyone was fooled by it! The white-hot relationships between the cast of characters were mature, even modern by our standards. This while he battled supercriminals such as the Fly, Iron Man and the Bat-Man. Authentically captured, the Spider would make a wonderful high-velocity movie.
Nick Santa Maria brings the action to vibrant life, narrating with a fever-pitch intensity. Voyage of the Coffin Ship originally published in The Spider magazine, June, 1937.
Chapter 1: Danger Books Passage
Chapter 2: Pirates to Starboard
Chapter 3: The Sea Master’s Warning
Chapter 4: A Call for the Spider
Chapter 5: Can the Dead Walk?
Chapter 6: Wentworth Sets a Course
Chapter 7: Trail of a Traitor
Chapter 8: The Baron’s Noose
Chapter 9: The Green Men Command
Chapter 10: The Baron Shows His Face
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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