The Black Bat combats seven mysterious criminals whose precise plan for a wave of murder and theft makes lawbreaking an exact science! Tony Quinn and his aides fight heavy odds to smash a gigantic conspiracy of plunder!
Throughout over sixty stories, The Black Bat fought for the most part street level criminals, those that might terrorize any city’s populace. This came largely from Tony Quinn’s work as a District Attorney prior to the accident that left him blind for a period of time. Even though there were very few true monsters or even mad scientists that ever encountered The Black Bat, that doesn’t mean that Quinn’s enemies were always simply run of the mill thugs. He pursued murderous arsonists burning down tenements for money. He confronted an evil genius who essentially took over a hospital for his vile experiments as well as a hypnotist intent on having others do his criminal bidding. From jail breaks to bank robberies, The Black Bat faces crime of all sorts, but often finds himself against the weird and almost unexplained, such as two different instances where predictions of death come true as murder. The Black Bat even confronts The Devil, or at least a man who proves he’s The Devil, until The Black Bat reveals he’s only another criminal.
With the stories written primarily in the 1940s and 50s, it isn’t surprising that The Black Bat also battles against those wanting to destroy The United States. From chasing stolen diamonds that are crucial to America’s wartime involvement to taking on Nazi Bundhists, The Black Bat joined other Pulp heroes in making sure that readers knew they, too, supported the efforts of the United States in World War II.
Thrill to Blueprints of Crime, originally published in Black Book Detective #89 Spring 1950 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Murder from the Sky
Chapter 2: Kangaroo Court
Chapter 3: Special District Attorney
Chapter 4: Avenger in Black
Chapter 5: Dangerous Men
Chapter 6: Dry Dive
Chapter 7: The Black Bat’s Band
Chapter 8: Colored Panels
Chapter 9: The Six Murder Men
Chapter 10: Missing Girl
Chapter 11: Murder Suspect
Chapter 12: Warehouse Rendezvous
Chapter 13: Plans for Action
Chapter 14: Inside Man
Chapter 15: Slated for Death
Chapter 16: Plan of the Crime
Chapter 17: Counter-Plans
Chapter 18: Brand of the Black Bat
