The Spider and the Flame King
by Grant Stockwell (Norvell Page)
December, 1942
Oil wells are being exploded in a protection racket by the giant, masked Flame King. Some diminishing returns on this series by the forties. There's one good scene of Nita handcuffed behind the wheel of a runaway truck of nitroglycerin, heading towards town center during a demonstration. She does the math and decides its better to run over scores of innocent people and drive the truck into the lake than to let the truck blow up in the center of town.
Also noticed Page used the term "oppressed minority" to describe Mexican migrant workers, certainly a step up in ethnic terminology for the pulps.
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