
Builders of the Dark Empire
by Grant Stockbridge and Norvell Page
The little tramp steamer ploughed steadily over a hot, placid sea—then suddenly, terror stalked it and every man aboard was doomed! In swift succession, other vessels, large and small, meet the same ghastly fate. Swift and terrible, death was abroad upon the shipping lanes. And the SPIDER, for once taken off his guard, lies supposedly dying in a New York hospital at the same instant that the Terror from the Seas raises its ugly head above the city skyline—to menace the life of the nation!