Emile C Tepperman

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: "Shells for the Suicide Squad" Steve Klaw, of the F.B.I.'s Suicide Squad, borrowed a traitor's name, when he went into battle against three world powers-to save Forge River's priceless military secret for America "Suicide Squad's Murder Lottery" Kerrigan and Klaw of the F.B.I.'s ace trio, came to mourn at the grave of their murdered comrade... and stayed to follow a fighting ghost to war-against the Twentieth Century Nero who held a third of the nation in abject slavery "The Suicide Squad and the Murder Bund" Murdoch, Kerrigan and Klaw, the F.B.I.'s dauntless Suicide Squad, must daily fight with dogged, unbelievable courage-merely to earn the right to live Could this fabulous team of crime-fighters lock guns in deadly combat with the Skull and Swastika Corps-and still remain a trio?

The goose-stepping armies of the Purple Emperor massed in the passes of the Continental Divide, ready to swoop down upon the last defenders of American soil and drive them relentlessly westward into the sea. Grimly the besieged force, without guns or supplies, waited the attack they could not hope to hold off. Then Operator 5 played his last card-a daring dash into the Occupied Territory, where his life was worth a province to the man who could deliver him into the eager hands of a torture-mad emperor

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: "The Suicide Squad Pays Off" The Black Sheep of the F.B.I. turn a terror-ridden town upside down in a finish-fight with a gang that had decreed death for all G-men "Coffins for the Suicide Squad" Boldly, New York's crime czar flung his challenge before the F.B.I., daring the full might of America's prize crime-fighting machine to a finish war And Washington answered with the Suicide Squad-three grinning, fighting Volunteers of Death-to tame a murder empire "The Suicide Squad-Dead or Alive " Storm Troop gangsters took over the Hill City government. Blue-uniformed killers picked up the blood-purge hunt for Kerrigan, Murdoch, and Klaw-the three F.B.I. aces who had to capture a city just to rescue a red-headed girl

The grim banner of the Purple Empire was flaunted over America from coast to coast. Americans labored in chains for the blood-maddened Emperor Rudolph. Defiant patriots found their heads under the guillotine. All hope seemed lost. But one man-Operator 5-clung to the vision and the courage to fight for an America once more free. Facing dismaying perils, he snatched the Purple Emperor's own weapons to fire the spark of battle in a mighty nation

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 first three stories: "Mr. Zero and the F.B.I. Suicide Squad" One for all, and all for one-even in death-was the fighting creed of the three wildest, gun-swinging law aces of the F.B.I. "The Suicide Squad Reports for Death" In all the Service they were the Law's toughest, shield-bearing crime fighters-and their job was to come through or die "The Suicide Squad's Last Mile" The F.B.I.'s ace manhunt trio fight their way to hell and back-to end the rule of a crime-czar who had decreed death for all G-men and paid highest cash prices for second-hand corpses

Can a beaten, subjugated nation fight back-and win? America was doing it Starting out with a handful of ragged, desperate men, Operator 5 went doggedly about the hopeless task of transporting his precious store of guns and ammunition-across two thousand miles of enemy territory-to our last crumbling defenses in the Far West. Read here of that amazing running battle with death. March with this swelling, triumphant legion of hungry patriots-in the greatest, most stirring epic of military history

Over the Rockies and down the Pacific slope the Purple Emperor's great war machine rolled on, to crush the last vestige of American resistance. Operator 5, seeing his cause already lost, decided upon the incredibly daring, typically American action-of a counter attack Read here of his mad, secret sortie through enemy territory-across two thousand miles of hell to the guns and ammunition which alone could stave off defeat.

In the far reaches of High Asia, the Purple Empire had set up its factories and its smelters, to forge the most powerful weapon yet devised in military history. That weapon was a fleet of super-dreadnoughts equipped with a strange secret device to render our Defense Force helpless... In this gripping novel of the historic Purple Invasion, giant guns ashore and turret magic at sea hurl death at America's crumbling bulwarks as intrigue knifes the stout defenders. And Operator 5, Secret Service ace, becomes a man without a country, with death and disgrace as his only reward.

Thundering across a ravished America comes a loot laden train bearing twenty million dollars in gold, hurtling toward the despoiled metropolis of New York, where the dread foreign conqueror, Emperor Rudolph I, has established headquarters. Suddenly the train trembles to a stop. A desperate little band of American patriots, who refuse to bow to the conqueror's yoke, make a bold attack. Their leader, Jimmy Christopher, known as Operator 5, realizes that with that trainload of gold he can flood the skies with a thousand fighting planes, the only chance for America to repel the brutal invaders Already they have ravished the Eastern seaboard. Even now they are hammering at the surviving citadel of American freedom-the Rocky Mountain stronghold of the brave men who will not yield.

The defense forces of the United States have been crushed by the powerful war machine of Emperor Rudolph, Warlord of the World... From the Atlantic to the Mississippi the brutal conqueror is subjecting millions to his merciless, bloody reign of terror-and his ruthless gray-clad hordes are steadily sweeping westward, leaving a vast path of death and destruction in their wake... Faced with the surrender of America's army, only Jimmy Christopher-known to the Intelligence Service as Operator 5-and a pitiful handful of desperate men stand between the Mad Emperor and his bloody conquest of the nation...

Invaders from the Central Empire held all New England and most of the Eastern Seaboard. The Purple Emperor, bloodthirsty and heartless, was subjecting millions of Americans to an endless reign of terror. Threat of the horrible Green Gas had driven our defenders to the Mississippi. The President had fled to a ramshackle courthouse in Florida. Despair filled every heart. Operator 5, leading a desperate guerilla band within the enemy lines, is America's only hope. This long novel, dramatized from Jimmy Christopher's own personal history of the invasion, presents a startling, thrilling picture of the Second War of Independence

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

Deep-hidden in evil, Satan's Suicide Club sat in council-and men died. What dreadful force drove these men, leaders of society with everything to live for, to end their lives at the behest of that sinister being who sardonically called himself Professor Mephisto? And why did men and women suffer the tortures of the damned rather than defy this mysterious being? Richard Wentworth once more assumes the cloak of the Spider to free these lost ones from a living hell and a disgraceful death-and steps into the jaws of a devil's trap that casts his life among the lives in pawn

A brawny coolie from the filthy waterfront of Hong Kong was Emperor of Asia and master of the vast reaches of Russia. Armed with mysterious new weapons which made the bravest man craven, he marched ruthlessly to conquer the world, and to win the proud daughter of the Muscovite nobility who scorned his amorous advances... Jimmy Christopher-Operator 5 of the United States Intelligence-had given America more than enough warning to prepare for the barbaric, invading yellow hosts. And when all seemed lost-when great cities were razed and countless thousands butchered-Operator 5 finally ignored restraining bureaucracy and pitted himself in a single-handed battle to wrest our nation from the Coolie Emperor's bloody grasp

War gongs clanged in Chinatown-but it was no tong war that tore the great Societies with fear and suspicion and deadly hate. For deeper in evil mystery than their own dark secrets lay the hidden temple of crime that loosed the Scourge of the Yellow Fangs-the menace that erupted in the yellow men's haunts and overflowed into white men's lives and threatened white men's rule. Victims lived long enough to curse the unknown Man From Singapore-who knew the Spider and planned his quick removal from the finish fight... While in a tenuous truce with baffled police, Richard Wentworth, by night the Spider, accepted the top-heavy odds-and gave grim battle

Those strange, impassioned orators preached peace and the brotherhood of man-as they tongue-lashed their eager, duped recruits to brutal deeds, bloody violence, and suicide... While dull-witted authorities ridiculed Jimmy Christopher-Operator 5 of the Secret Service-the Dragon Emperor ruthlessly conquered New England... When America seemed altogether doomed-when his loved ones had sacrificed themselves in vain-Operator 5 undertook one last, lone-handed counterattack-from which he could not hope to return alive

There was no clue to the kidnapping of wealthy, powerful men and beautiful, talented women-until the Man Who Dealt in Death broke into Richard Wentworth's stroll in the moonlight with the wanton wounding of his own lookout. From that stricken gangster Wentworth obtained the first hint of the devil-brain that was using science and surgery, death and torture and extortion, to enslave the city's great. And Wentworth, better known as the Spider, answered the challenge of the Laboratory of the Lost-gambling life and more against weird dangers that no man had ever faced before