The Spider #59

<p>Overnight a bizarre crime wave had gripped New York turning America's First Families into criminals who for savage lawlessness outdid the Underworld! Society's Four Hundred had now become a ghastly blood-thirsting set of thieves and murderers. Embezzlements and bank frauds had terrorized Manhattan and pauperized a helpless people. In this topsy-turvy world of terror Richard Wentworth as the Spider set out to save a betrayed civilization-from a mystic Hindu crime-czar who had mastered the magic necessary to turn New York's moneyed class into inhuman monsters!</p>