Emile C Tepperman

So devastating was the ghastly power Professor Secundus wielded over the hapless city-and over his sightless, kill-crazy slaves in particular-that Richard Wentworth asked New York to surrender to the King of Crime ... How could the Spider, himself doomed to blindness, prevent the mass tragedy that was due to follow-and at the same time save his sweetheart from Satan's Hell on Earth

Meet Ed Race who made his trade as a vaudeville gun-juggler supreme, known on stage as "The Masked Marksman" and for handling six loaded .45s to the delight of the crowds. But when this line of work became too tedious, Race took advantage of his multi-state P.I. licenses to solve crimes across the country. This collection includes his next seven stories: Overture to Doom: Ed Race believed in himself, and in his shrewd judgment of people... So in the case of the pretty girl wearing the caracul coat, he backed his guess with a courtroom tangle and a six-gun showdown Death Between the Acts: Ed Race was willing to lend his time, money, or six-gun skill to deserving friends... and Charley Wiener needed all three-desperately Bad Actors Die Young : Few people ever got the drop on Ed Race-and made it stick. But when that frail, hungry, lovely girl tried it, Ed was as meek as a lamb. Some folks even claim he helped her Murder on the Programme: Ed Race was willing to let certain people gamble with his money. When a frightened girl tried it and won, he decided to help her push her luck-even when he knew the final payoff would be in hot lead and spilled blood Death Steals the Act: Ed Race, sharpshooting vaudeville acrobat, gambles his life to save his boss-and discovers a high finance racket which makes his famous pistol act a prelude to bloody death.Death Goes on the Road: Things happened fast in Carrolltown... A voluptuous brunette's bribe, a machine-gun murder, and a hawk-eyed cabby gave Ed Race, pistol-juggling, sharp-shooting acrobat, a timely cue for a six-gun gate crash to a swindler's million-dollar show-with death as the pay-off Death at the Matinee: A torn copy of Variety and a little old lady lead Ed Race, ace vaudevillian, along a murderer's twisted back-trail-to a thundering climax of juggled six-guns, with only death as an audience to his off-stage act.

It was a horrible, false New Dawn breaking over the world-heralding the most powerful and ruthless autocracy known to man. America, like England and France, was under the heel of a dictator who had set out to make himself emperor of the earth To fight this evil force, Operator 5 and his volunteer aides crossed the sea to Europe-waging a fierce, relentless undercover war

What chance had Richard Wentworth-alone-of crushing Red Feather, an amazing murder mogul who drafted legions of innocent New Yorkers into his vile service by the infliction of unbearable, scientifically applied pain? Read, in this strong, book length novel, about the Spider's weird, pulse-quickening battle with the Torture Trust

Meet Ed Race who made his trade as a vaudeville gun-juggler supreme, known on stage as "The Masked Marksman" and for handling six loaded .45s to the delight of the crowds. But when this line of work became too tedious, Race took advantage of his multi-state P.I. licenses to solve crimes across the country. This collection includes his next seven stories: Juggler's Holiday: Ed Race, gun-juggler supreme, liked to help his friends out of tight places. But when that gun-active Samaritanism led him between the raking crossfires of both gangsters and police, Ed knew there was only one thing to do: blast his way out in a double gamble with death Death's Curtain-Call: Ed Race, who juggled guns for both business and pleasure, wanted to do a favor for a pretty girl friend... But a crooked poker game and a murder plot nearly made Death step forward to take Ed's final bow... Cue for a Gunman: Ed Race, six-gun magician, realized that a fast horse, a crooked bookie, and a quarter million dollars-mixed together-meant big-time trouble... But Slingel's mob didn't know Ed could juggle hot dough just as well as hot revolvers... Murder Backstage: Ed Race didn't like bandits-even the nervous and beautiful girl targeting him with an automatic... But when he understood the set-up, he barged head first into a six-gun ambush to help her out Death's Understudy: Ed Race couldn't say, "No " when a friend bid for his aid-even when it meant chancing a suit of hot tar and feathers... and a grim threat of more, and deadlier, hell to come Action Off Stage: Ed Race wasn't looking for a fight, but a pretty girl's lie and a crooked sheriff's stubbornness shoved it right into his lap. And good-natured as he was, Ed figured it was time to quit joking when the hillbillies rallied for a necktie party Prologue to Death: It gave Ed Race a queasy feeling when his Broadway pals treated him like a leper... And it took a bloody tommy-gun lesson to teach him that one determined enemy, hidden in a host of friends, can put a man on a cold morgue slab.

In the hot streets of Old Mexico, Operator 5 launched his great counter-espionage campaign-against a plotting Asiatic horde which threatened to loose the entire barbarous Mexican guerrilla Southwest upon America, in an attack that also combined modern Japanese mechanized warfare and dread tropical disease Then, in the final, decisive minutes, America seemed to turn back the very pages of history as she made her last stand for freedom at the Alamo

From friendly but helpless Canada had come the false feint at America's mighty, steel-armored line. Investigating that strange attack, Operator 5 learned that to save his country from the most astounding invasion in history, he and his volunteer aides must cross the sea to fight a desperate undercover battle with the three bandit nations of the Old World-and, man for man, match American agents against their foes in the grim hope that he might overwhelm a ruthless enemy

Meet Ed Race who made his trade as a vaudeville gun-juggler supreme, known on stage as "The Masked Marksman" and for handling six loaded .45s to the delight of the crowds. But when this line of work became too tedious, Race took advantage of his multi-state P.I. licenses to solve crimes across the country. This collection includes his first eight stories: Amateur Night-for Killers: It looked like Ed Race's last act when he tried to clean up the plague-spot that was Newbold City, and found himself alone on a blood-stained stage-with Death waiting its entrance cue Cue for a Corpse: Ed Race, vaudeville juggler and high-speed private detective, wasn't accustomed to finding corpses jammed into his wardrobe trunk. But even a dead body, unknown and unidentified, can lead a man into sinister, twisting paths where death lurks, waiting in the shadows...The Death Juggler: It took more than fast forty-fives to buck a crook of Pete Lucie's stamp... But Ed Race could juggle wits as well as weapons.Death's Spotlight: Ed Race, actor-detective, always managed to get in the spotlight when there was danger around-but the ease of the man from Amsterdam billed him to play a solo stand in a pine coffin...Billed for Death : Ed Race, vaudeville headliner and ace detective, leaped at the chance to help out the manager of the Trout City Theater. But that leap in the dark landed Ed fast in a killer's net, where the only out for a desperate criminal crew lay in making a corpse of one gun' juggling detective Death's Booking Agent: Ed Race awoke in that little mountain town to find that the Great Booking Agent, Death, had billed him to play a star role in the final, fatal drama of life Death Takes an Encore: Ed Race, gun-juggler supreme, heard the crackling of the electric chair as he listened to the police tell him how he had killed his friend. But Race knew that the life of any act may depend on those last few minutes-before the curtain drops Murder in the Spotlight: That bright spotlight revealed to breathless audiences the magic skill of Ed Race, gun-juggler extraordinary. But it also made him a target for a gun that wasn't juggled-that was trained on him with Death's own fateful accuracy...

Across ravaged America, exhausted from the long Purple Wars, Operator 5 and his gallant caravan trekked on their errand of mercy, step by step rebuilding once more a mighty nation out of a hopeless ruin-battling to the death a lawless horde that had been released by a Dictator of Doom who planned to transform the prostrate country into a vassal-state that never again was to know liberty

Klaw, Murdoch, and Kerrigan-AKA the Suicide Squad-are the best the F.B.I. has to offer. Through nearly two dozen adventures, they battled spies, saboteurs, and even super-villains This collection includes their final four stories: MOVE OVER, DEATH : Kerrigan, Murdoch and Klaw-the fabulous fighting Feds-had finally been given the assignment which no G-man could take-and live Gladly, with grins on their battle-scarred faces, they walked into the Nazi trap, with blazing guns punctuating their war cry: "Move over, Death "TARGETS FOR THE FLAMING ARROW: They had no clues, nothing but the charred arrow which had snuffed out the life of the American diplomat. But more important, Kerrigan, Murdoch and Klaw had almost no time at all in which to work, for within four days, the Flaming Arrow's medieval minions were scheduled to destroy America's vast war effort. Could even the famed Suicide Squad stop this Axis grand coup-before they too became living targets for the Flaming Arrow...?BLOOD, SWEAT AND BULLETS: The Ox had America neatly packaged to deliver to Hitler on Christmas morning. And, with only five shopping days left to Christmas, Kerrigan and Murdoch bartered their partner's life as the price of her freedom. But Steve Klaw found that he had to chase death three thousand miles to seal his bargain-while Kerrigan and Murdoch were helpless save to rush him to his doom THE SUICIDE SQUAD AND THE TWINS OF DEATH : When Blond Otto The Hangman and his Nazi aides told Murdoch that he would soon join the dead Kerrigan and Klaw, he waited until he did-then added the roar of a dead man's weapon to the blazing guns of his ghostly pals

Against the Mongol hordes on land, and the Purple Fleet, loosing its annihilating bombardment from the sea-New York had fought through the bitter, exhausting siege. Victory, at last, was within the grasp of Operator 5 and his fighting American patriots. Then, from out of the Emperor's devil cauldron, rose the scourge of the Black Plague

Through Pennsylvania's ravished countryside thundered that ruthless Mongol cavalcade, its goal the sacking of New York The severed heads of patriots dangled from their leaders' blood-stained saddles, and in their wake rumbled dread, primitive machines of death. Barring their advance was only that little band of patriots at Valley Forge. But on that sacred battleground, while Operator 5 fought to save a girl from being hurled to death by a giant catapult, and civilization was being turned back to the Dark Ages by a horde of Asiatic vandals-America struck against a Yellow Dictatorship for the freedom of the world

Klaw, Murdoch, and Kerrigan-AKA the Suicide Squad-are the best the F.B.I. has to offer. Through nearly two dozen adventures, they battled spies, saboteurs, and even super-villains This collection includes their next three stories: "Wanted-In Three Pine Coffins" The sinister tentacles of Naziism were finally making themselves felt in America, and those who dared fight back were mercilessly murdered Only the Suicide Squad could stand up before the deadly wave of destruction, but those three cavaliering conquerors of crime were already enmeshed in their own grim battle-dodging the very laws which they fought to uphold "The Suicide Squad's Private War" It started with a mock air-raid, which turned, fantastically, into a night of terror for many, when real bombs were dropped. And America's most precious naval secrets fell into the hands of the Little Gray Old Man and his horde of Black Troopers-who defied even the famed Suicide Squad to come and get them "-For Tomorrow We Die " Against the fabulous crime-czar whose thieving legions were undermining the morale of honest Americans, the Chief sent the Suicide Squad-Murdoch, Kerrigan and Klaw. And those three hellions of the F.B.I. found they had a murder carnival on their hands-as well as three fresh nooses already tightening about their necks