Just another pretty girl murdered, but it was far from an ordinary routine case for the Black Bat! Tony Quinn and his aides face the sinister challenge of international dealers in crime!
Even though The Black Bat donned a mask and outfit to carry on his fight against crime, that alter ego did not drift too far from his actual identity, Tony Quinn, Special Attorney. As both Quinn and The Black Bat, he fought evil, going after the underworld with tools tailor made to each identity, the law for Quinn and guns for The Black Bat. It wasn’t like putting the mask on made Quinn someone else, it simply gave him the ability to go outside of his own moral code and to strike at those who would do innocents harm. This aspect of the character is one of the likely contributing factors to the longevity of the series.
Even by 1939, readers still sought out Pulp magazines primarily for escapism. This became even more important when World War II began in earnest in just over a year. Needing a way to deal with the real world, readers of all types and ages turned to Pulps to get a break from reality. Even with that, however, they also tended to connect strongly with characters that they could identify with in some way. The Black Bat provided this kind of connection. Tony Quinn was a wounded soul, a man who fought his way back from blindness with a mission to strike out against evil. Even though a wealthy attorney, Quinn went after criminals that haunted headlines and threatened common people every day. This very probably proved important to readers, giving them multiple reasons to cheer The Black Bat onto victory.
Thrill to The Dangerous Corpse, originally published in Black Book Detective #93 Spring 1951 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Death At Her Heels
Chapter 2: Routine Case
Chapter 3: League of The Black Bat
Chapter 4: Killer’s Identity
Chapter 5: Command to Kill
Chapter 6: House of Mystery
Chapter 7: Another Visitor
Chapter 8: Dying Man’s Statement
Chapter 9: The Black Bat’s Way
Chapter 10: Transatlantic Call
Chapter 11: Underworld Tactics
Chapter 12: Gambler’s Records
Chapter 13: Human Bait
Chapter 14: Lethal Missile
Chapter 15: The Killer
Chapter 16: Behind the Crime
Chapter 17: Bullets in the Back
Chapter 18: Blind Man’s Bluff