Out of the night comes a menacing winged figure! Blind district attorney Tony Quinn takes his battle for justice from the courtrooms to the streets, battling evil as The Black Bat!
The Black Bat probes the strange mystery of the suicide that didn’t take — and its alarming aftermath of widespread crime and violence! Tony Quinn fights to learn the answer to a baffling big-city riddle of stalking death!
Even though other characters with a darkness theme came before him, The Black Bat struck a different chord with readers than his predecessors. Although he had a team like The Shadow, Tony Quinn’s mission was much more personal, a desire for revenge turned to a fight for justice. Where The Spider had darker adventures and higher body counts, The Black Bat stories showed a hero who brought evil to bear and made sure criminals paid their dues, but also showed restraint and control. This likely allowed readers to connect with him in a way they could not with other fictional pulp heroes.
The Black Bat debuted at a time when The Great Depression was ending and before World War Two truly began. Pulp readers were still stinging from poverty, unemployment, essentially the complete upheaval of their lives. They were also living in a world where crime was more prevalent and publicized than before. It is no surprise, then, that many latched onto a hero who not only went after crime with a deadly passion, but who most notably had been knocked down, defeated in his own way. The fact that Tony Quinn overcame his blindness to be one of the longest running features in Pulp Magazines owes quite a lot to this touch of humanity added to the character.
Murder Town, originally published in Black Book Detective #88 Winter 1950 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Self-Confessed
Chapter 2: Missing Evidence
Chapter 3: Prescription Blank
Chapter 4: This Time Dead
Chapter 5: Figure in Black
Chapter 6: Picture of a Crime
Chapter 7: Gun in the Darkness
Chapter 8: Siege
Chapter 9: Murder Gun
Chapter 10: Murder on Wheels
Chapter 11: A Killer Comes Calling
Chapter 12: Human Target
Chapter 13: “Get Out of Town”
Chapter 14: Fists in the Dark
Chapter 15: Midnight Foray
Chapter 16: Rifleman
Chapter 17: Narrow Escape
Chapter 18: Explanations
Chapter 19: Confidence Men
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