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THE SPIDER-City of Doom


CoverThe Spider:  Master of Men!

Before there was Batman, before Peter Parker’s alter ego got the bug to slip on a mask, one Dark Avenger reigned supreme:  the Spider!   With sardonic wit and fanatical drive, the Spider faces down a literally faceless master villain, stops skyscrapers from melting, and corrals a mind-controlling madman. Let the Spider rise again:  a pulp legend forever!

Three no-holds-barred pulp blockbusters by one of the greatest story-spinners of all time, the inimitable Norvell Page.

“I suppose I've read about 40 Spiders, one after another, much the way some pop amphetamines . . . If I was a pulp novel, I'd be entitled Slave of the Spider!”
Doc Savage author and famed pulp historian, Will Murray.

Cover Art by Jim Steranko
Special thanks to consulting art director
J. David Spurlock and Vanguard Productions



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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, June 2008

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Page, Norvell W.
The spider : city of doom / by Norvell W. Page.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5555-1 (trade pbk.)
ISBN-10: 1-4165-5555-2 (trade pbk.)
1. Spider (Fictitious character)--Fiction. 2.
Vigilantes--Fiction. 3. Criminals--Fiction. 4. New York
(N.Y.)--Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: City of doom.
PS3531.A2355S63 2008
813'.6--dc22
2008013443


Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5555-1
ISBN-10: 1-4165-5555-2

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THE SPIDER™ is a registered trademark and the property of Argosy Communications, Inc.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

THE CITY DESTROYER
originally appeared in the January 1935 issue of THE SPIDER magazine. Copyright © 1934 by Popular Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed © 1962 and assigned to Argosy Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
THE FACELESS ONE
originally appeared in the November 1939 issue of THE SPIDER magazine. Copyright © 1939 by Popular Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed © 1967 and assigned to Argosy Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
THE COUNCIL OF EVIL
originally appeared in the October 1940 issue of THE SPIDER magazine. Copyright © 1940 by Popular Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed © 1968 and assigned to Argosy Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

THE SPIDER is a registered trademark of Argosy Communications, Inc.

 

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