The Spider - The Complete Pulp Story Guide
#49 / vol.13 no.1
October 1937

The City that Dared Not Eat

Author: Wayne Rogers

Plot: A false Spider organizes the underworld and uses mass murder and terror to drive up the price of food, causing people to flee the city, leaving their possessions unguarded; Wentworth moves to Sutton Place super-fortress.

Note: Rogers brings actual "weird menace" into the title. (Check that cover!)

Cover by John Newton Howitt

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