"The Spider #81 - Judgement of the Damned"
Just finished listening to "The Spider #81 - Judgement of the Damned" released by Radio Archives.
Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of this outing of The Spider by Norvell W. Page - the master chronicler of The Master of Men is that Richard Wentworth/The Spider is shown to have once been compassionate enough to help a criminal go straight once he had served his prison sentence and paid his debt to society. While it's definitely not the first time The Spider had promised not to kill a criminal who was in the process of helping him, the criminal usually died in the end with little remorse shown by The Spider.
I suspect that while Norvell W. Page chaffed at the typewriter keyboard over having to eliminate The Spider's body count, he did find a way to thumb his nose at the self-appointed Literary Morality Police of the time by having the former criminal trying to go straight die a tragic death by Wentworth's gun that was used by an underling of the dreaded executioner known as Judge Torture.
Judge Torture's use of his victims' bodies served I suspect as a prelude/blue print to the Dexter novels decades later.
And also noteworthy in "Judgement of the Damned" is that Richard Wentworth is forced to contemplate and he feels more than a bit of remorse for killing a man in his great and ongoing service to humanity when the man's son comes a calling five years later to seek out and kill The Spider - the man who killed his father.
I may be wrong about this assumption, but I suspect that Norvell W. Page employed the use of a man determined to hunt down The Spider only to turn into a convert of The Spider's brand of unrelenting justice as another means to take a few well deserved swipes at the self-appointed Literary Morality Police.
Nick Santa Maria gives another outstanding and rousing performance as Richard Wentworth/The Spider, and nobody can match his ability of effortlessly catch accents of various regions of the country while giving each character a unique and distinct voice and personality.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
FIVE STARS!
https://www.radioarchives.com/The_Spi...
Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of this outing of The Spider by Norvell W. Page - the master chronicler of The Master of Men is that Richard Wentworth/The Spider is shown to have once been compassionate enough to help a criminal go straight once he had served his prison sentence and paid his debt to society. While it's definitely not the first time The Spider had promised not to kill a criminal who was in the process of helping him, the criminal usually died in the end with little remorse shown by The Spider.
I suspect that while Norvell W. Page chaffed at the typewriter keyboard over having to eliminate The Spider's body count, he did find a way to thumb his nose at the self-appointed Literary Morality Police of the time by having the former criminal trying to go straight die a tragic death by Wentworth's gun that was used by an underling of the dreaded executioner known as Judge Torture.
Judge Torture's use of his victims' bodies served I suspect as a prelude/blue print to the Dexter novels decades later.
And also noteworthy in "Judgement of the Damned" is that Richard Wentworth is forced to contemplate and he feels more than a bit of remorse for killing a man in his great and ongoing service to humanity when the man's son comes a calling five years later to seek out and kill The Spider - the man who killed his father.
I may be wrong about this assumption, but I suspect that Norvell W. Page employed the use of a man determined to hunt down The Spider only to turn into a convert of The Spider's brand of unrelenting justice as another means to take a few well deserved swipes at the self-appointed Literary Morality Police.
Nick Santa Maria gives another outstanding and rousing performance as Richard Wentworth/The Spider, and nobody can match his ability of effortlessly catch accents of various regions of the country while giving each character a unique and distinct voice and personality.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
FIVE STARS!
https://www.radioarchives.com/The_Spi...
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