There was no way to crush Judge Torture, the mad legalite whose weird court had strewn the city with broken, dismembered victims. But there was one individual — Richard Wentworth — who, in the guise of the Spider, dared steal the thunder from Judge Torture’s terror reign by assuming full responsibility for the master murderer’s crimes!... Never before has the Spider become so vulnerable to death — at the hands of policemen, blood-thirsty vigilantes and gunmen... alike!