When a dead woman disappears and a man with everything to live for kills himself, the Black Bat tackles a weird crime puzzle! Tony Quinn puts his life in the balance when the scales tip for a baffling murder mystery!
A skill that made Norman A. Daniels, the author behind the majority of The Black Bat stories and the character’s creator, a truly great author was his ability to build solid, enduring characters. He proves that in his creation of Tony Quinn, a do or die District Attorney who almost does the latter when attacked in the face with a vial of acid while doing his job. In Quinn, Daniels gave readers a man on a mission, a man who was knocked down and got back up on his own two feet, and finally a man who attacked the criminal underworld with such a passion that readers simply had to follow along for fourteen years worth of adventures.
Every good hero, however, needs a good foil. Not necessarily an arch enemy, but someone who is out to get them. The Black Bat found that in Captain McGrath, a police officer. A good friend of Tony Quinn’s, McGrath determines to catch The Black Bat and becomes convinced that the masked vigilante may very well in fact be Special Attorney Tony Quinn, his friend. In various stories, McGrath attempts to prove his theory by trying to catch Quinn in slips of the tongue and even, on at least one occasion, having his eyes examined to prove he wasn’t still blind, which in reality he wasn’t. This didn’t even work for McGrath, however, who was convinced that due to their similar body structure and voices, that Tony Quinn and The Black Bat were indeed one and the same.
Thrill to The Dennison Document, originally published in Black Book Detective #87 Fall 1949 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: One Bullet
Chapter 2: Missing Payers
Chapter 3: Double In Black
Chapter 4: Under Observation
Chapter 5: The Fake Mr. Dennison
Chapter 6: The Dead Lady
Chapter 7: Night Shots
Chapter 8: Truth Serum
Chapter 9: The Doctor Makes a Call
Chapter 10: Black Bat at Bay
Chapter 11: An Attack
Chapter 12: Blackmail
Chapter 13: The Red Envelope
Chapter 14: Clue of the Bronze Statue
Chapter 15: Rendezvous
Chapter 16: Blue Flame
Chapter 17: Ambush
Chapter 18: The Framer Framed
Chapter 19: Explanations