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Sensing danger
in the air, widow Shannon Kane gets into her fighting costume in
order to break up a bank robbery as the Spider Queen! Foiling the
bank robbers, she trusses up one of them and sets off in hot pursuit of
the rest of the gang. But they are soon gone in their fast getaway car,
while the Spider Queen wonders where the police are. But the police, in
the person of plainclothes detective Mike O'Bell, are not far away...
"What's that? Sounds like a lot of shouting for
a quiet day! Suppose it might be..." wonders Mike O' Bell.
"Well, that's quick work. At least one policeman
seems to be on his toes today," remarks the Spider Queen from a nearby
rooftop. Arriving upon the scene, Mike O'Bell sees what the commotion
is all about...
"It's a bank robbery! But it didn't quite come
off, apparently!...But it doesn't explain what happened here...they got
the guard, but he got one of them" notes Mike. "But...say this guy wasn't
shot at all! Look at that filament! I bet I know whose work this is!"
And, with that, Mike O' Bell rushes back to police headquarters.
Once there he explains...
"Look, Chief! The Spider Queen again! She broke
up a robbery at the Gaxton Bank just now!" Mike excitedly relates.
"What! That vixen again! Why, I'll...uhh...by the way,
O'Bell, have you shown this bag to anyone but me?" asks his chief.
"Why...no, sir!" he replies.
"Well, just keep it under your hat, see? That
is...er...a departmental matter of course!" the chief hastily explains.
"Why surely, sir," Mike assures him. Looking into
the bag of money, the chief fumes...
"The young blockhead! This is one time the Spider
Queen won't cheat me on a job! And if O'Bell says anything, it's his word
against mine!" gloats the chief. Peering into the chief's window, the
Spider Queen sees all of this...
"Oho, my sweet! So you're the missing link in
our local crime ring! I'll just keep an eye on you!" she comments.
"But I'd better get this stuff to the hideout
the first thing tomorrow," the chief says aloud. Young Mike O'Bell leaves
the station house a bit puzzled.
"Now why the heck does the chief blow his top
that way...When the Spider Queen's on our side?" queries Mike. "And who
is this Spider Queen anyway? Wish I knew what her racket is..." He walks
down the street under the watchful eyes of the Spider Queen who is on
a nearby rooftop.
An interesting question--just who is the Spider
Queen?...Only two years ago she was plain Shannon Kane, wife and assistant
to a brilliant young government chemist on a special assignment.
"Uh-h...Shannon!" the scientist starts to ask
his assistant.
"Yes, dear?" replies the young wife.
"What about those tests on the new steel?" he
finishes.
"All ready for you, dear!" she says as she leaves
the room. But the enemies of his country have Dr. Harry Kane slated for
death. Breaking into his laboratory...
"Stop! You can't..." BANG BANG..."Ohhhh" and Dr.
Kane falls dead on the floor.
"Oh, yeah? Grab the papers, Rudy!" And the two
murdering thieves leave. Hearing the shots, Shannon Kane comes running....
"OH-H-H-Harry! What have they...HELP! SOMEONE!"
cries out Shannon. But it's too late.
Later, after the funeral...
"So, Harry's gone...and I'll have to carry in
somehow! First I must straighten up these old records, I guess." And,
as she does, Shannon makes a startling discovery....
"Spider-web fluid? That's a new one... No wonder
Harry never found a use for it. But say..." An idea comes to the widow
Kane. Shannon investigates the strange properties of this fluid...
"As you release it into the air, it becomes a
thin adhesive filament! My word! It sticks like glue! And it's actually
strong enough to swing on!" she notes. Ingeniously devising a set of special
bracelets to contain the fluid and to release it as needed, Shannon Kane
becomes the Spider Queen! Sworn enemy of saboteurs, racketeers, gangsters,
and criminals of every sort! Thus begins the career of the Spider Queen!
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