The Spider Returns

The Spider Returns is a 1941 15chapter Columbia movie serial based on the pulp magazine character The Spider. It was the fourteenth of the 57 serials released by Columbia and a sequel to their 1938 serial The Spiders Web. The first episode runsminutes, while the otherare approximatelyminutes each.

Columbia Pictures used their original serial The Spiders Web as the basic template for many of its early serials the daring hero and his assistants adopt disguises to battle an exotic, secretive villain and his lawless gang. In The Spider Returns, The Gargoyle wears robes which would not look out of place being worn by Flash Gordons longtime nemesis Ming the Merciless.Both serials feature a dramatic wardrobe enhancement to the Spiders original magazine appearance his simple black cape and head mask are overprinted with a white spiders web pattern and then matched with his usual plain black fedora. This striking addition gave the silver screen Spider an appearance more like that of a traditional superhero, like other pulp and comics heroes being adapted for the eras movie serials it also made the serial Spider look less like the very popular Street and Smith pulp hero The Shadow, which also had been produced by Columbia and starred Victor Jory. ........

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