When the Black Bat falls into a killer’s trap, he finds there’s more to the crime picture in his home city than meets the eye! You can send a killer like Spade Vernon to the Chair, but that won’t stop his crimes!
When the Thrilling Group wanted to lead the third wave of Hero Pulps, it tapped its most reliable author to create new characters to headline magazines and stories. Norman A. Daniels was the writer responsible for The Black Bat in terms of concept and description, although the name was derived from both previous characters and to match up better with the title of the magazine, Black Book Detective, that would feature Quinn’s masked exploits. Writing as G. Wayman Jones, Daniels wrote the majority of the over sixty Black Bat stories published over fourteen years. According to some sources, Daniels’ job was to make The Black Bat every bit as good as The Shadow and he received a raise each time The Shadow’s creator did.
Even with Daniels being the creative force behind The Black Bat, he was not the sole author of Quinn’s adventures. At least three adventures even remain in which authors have not been identified. Some experts believe that Pulp author Whit Elsworth may have been the writer behind the first non-Daniels tale, published in 1940, while others maintain that it was author Prentice Winchell, known to most pulp fans by the pen name Stewart Sterling. Regardless of the identity of the author, most fans recall the Daniels written stories as the best Black Bat tales told, due in large part to his distinctive style and creative voice breathing a different sort of life into the masked hero.
Thrill to The Black Bat Fights For Life, originally published in Black Book Detective #91 Fall 1950 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Murder Witness
Chapter 2: Open and Shut Case
Chapter 3: The Go-Between
Chapter 4: Danger Moves In
Chapter 5: Not Strictly Legal
Chapter 6: Shoot to Kill
Chapter 7: Second Contact
Chapter 8: Gun at His Elbow
Chapter 9: The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk
Chapter 10: Brand of the Black Bat
Chapter 11: On the Rooftop
Chapter 12: The Growing Pressure
Chapter 13: The Threat of Silence
Chapter 14: Indelible Brand
Chapter 15: Showgirl
Chapter 16: Double Menace
Chapter 17: The Double Cross
Chapter 18: The Black Bat’s Surrender
Chapter 19: Hideout
Chapter 20: The Men Behind Crime