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The Spider #68 Audiobook
King of the Fleshless Legion
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
The Spider faces a grim mass murderer who holds sway over Manhattan — when poisoned drugs paralyze the medical profession and turn New York’s hospitals into a hell of betrayed human sufferers!
The Spider fought crime draped in black, his identity hidden from those he sought to stop, the very evil that threatened his city month after month. And here lies the genius of Norvell W. Page’s 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.
Once, during a respite in a typical blood-and-screaming-bullets carnage of urban combat, Police Commissioner Kirkpatrick ticked off a long list of suspects. 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. When the Spider-madness came over him, he might pick up his treasured Stradivarius violin and launch into a night-long serenade to soul-searching. Or, he might putty up his face, don black hat and cape, go out Spidering.
Nick Santa Maria reads King of the Fleshless Legion with the crackling intensity you have come to expect of his superb talent. Originally published in The Spider magazine, May, 1939.
Chapter 1: Death at Midnight
Chapter 2: Skeleton Without Arms
Chapter 3: Murder Charge
Chapter 4: The Spider Walks Again
Chapter 5: The Fleshless Ones
Chapter 6: The Skull Speaks
Chapter 7: Death Marches On
Chapter 8: A Clue at Last
Chapter 9: The Embrace of Death
Chapter 10: Victory — and Defeat
Chapter 11: Fugitives
Chapter 12: Captured!
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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