SPIDER RETURNS (THE ), 15 CHAPTER SERIAL, 1941

THE SPIDER RETURNS
15 CHAPTER SERIAL
1941

PLOT:
Amateur criminologist Richard Wentworth was formerly the masked vigilante, The Spider. Wentworth brings The Spider out of retirement to help his friend, police commissioner Kirk (Kirkpatrick in the pulps), fight a dangerous maniac. This new enemy is The Gargoyle, a mysterious crimelord who threatens America with sabotage and wholesale murder in an effort to wreck national defense.

CAST:
Warren Hull ... Richard Wentworth / The Spider / Blinky McQuade
Mary Ainslee ... Nita Van Sloan
Dave O'Brien ... Jackson, Wentworth's Aide
Joseph W. Girard ... Police Commissioner Kirk
Kenne Duncan ... Ram Singh, Wentworth's Hindu Chauffeur
Corbet Harris ... McLeod
Bryant Washburn ... Westfall
Charles F. Miller ... Mr. Van Sloan
Anthony Warde ... Henchman Trigger
Harry Harvey ... Stephen

CHAPTERS:
1. The Stolen Plans
2. The Fatal Time-Bomb
3. The Secret Meeting
4. The Smoke Dream
5. The Gargoyle's Trail
6. The X-Ray Eye
7. The Radio Boomerang
8. The Mysterious Message
9. The Cup of Doom
10. The X-Ray Belt
11. Lips Sealed by Murder
12. A Money Bomb
13. Almost a Confession
14. Suspicious Telegram
15. The Payoff

RUNNING TIME: 270 MIN