Master of the Flaming Horde — Grant Stockbridge

Over Manhattan's dizzy towers fell that insidious, invisible menace-an unseen cloud of death that first transformed the entire metropolis into a laughing, drunken riot and then blasted it to bits! Who was the evil Master of these Flame Men, who had found a real way to amass millions by gutting New York with fire? In defense of those reeling, giggling victims, trapped in their awesome death-spree, Richard Wentworth, in the Spider's weird robes, rose from the charred embers-to fight his greatest battle against an arson assassin no one had ever seen-for a doomed people so blind-drunk they could not see!