Operator #5, Volume 2, Issue 1, August 1934: #5 Cavern of the Damned

Operator #5 #5

by Curtis Steele (Pseudonym), Frederick C. Davis, Will Murray (Introduction)

Will Murray's Pulp Classics
Operator #5 eBook
#5 August 1934

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.

Jimmy Christopher, clean-cut, square-jawed and clear-eyed, was the star of the most audacious pulp magazines ever conceived — Operator #5. Savage would-be conquerors, creepy cults, weird weather-controllers and famine-creating menaces to our mid-western breadbasket... these were but a few of the fiendish horrors that Jimmy Christopher was forced to confront. Operator #5 returns in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
by Will Murray

Thrilling Feature-Length Novel of America’s Undercover Ace
Cavern of the Damned
by Frederick C. Davis writing as Curtis Steele
A young girl, her eyes glazed, a look of fixed ecstasy on her face, advanced step by step toward the leaping flames of the hidden altar. What sinister spell had fallen on American men and women to make them hurl themselves to such ghastly destruction? Can Operator 5 hope to conquer the forces of unseen evil in the Cavern of the Damned!

Traitor’s Pay — A Colonel Field Story
by Edward T. Turner
When his trusted aide took Judas gold, the Colonel was set to pay him off in blood-red toll...

Blood of the Iron Man — A Lieutenant Berry Story
by Owen Atkinson
It takes more than lurking death and stone walls to keep a real cop from a murderers' tryst.

The Secret Sentinel — A Department
More news for wearers of the mystic skull!

Will Murray’s Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.

217 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 1934

About the author

Henry Steeger, the owner of pulp publisher Popular Publications, launched the monthly pulp magazine "Operator #5," about a hero who would "single-handedly, or almost, save the nation from complete destruction regularly every month," in 1934. The novels were published under the pseudonym Curtis Steele, and were written by Frederick C. Davis until November 1935, then by Emile C. Tepperman until March 1938, and then Wayne Rogers for the remainder of the run.

Reviews

[Mark Harris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jimmy Christopher encounters a handful of several death traps, including Tiger Ants and garroting, and it’s all because of hashish (ganja)! You’d think this was Richard Wentworth we were reading about. Probably should be a four stars, but I’ve been hard to please lately. Frederick Davis wrote this one.

[Ronald · Rating 3 out of 5]

A drug is used on a mass basis to enslave people to do a master's bidding. A litle more gruesome than some other Operator No.5's adventures. Even Z-7 is affected & asks Jimmy to back down or be branded a traitor.

[Jeff J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pulp novel featuring Operator #5. Zaava terrorizes the US. Much chaos ensues.