the tradition of The Shadow, wanted by the law for executing his criminal antagonists, and prefigured later comic book superheroes like Batman. Page's innovations to the series included a hideous disguise for the hero and a succession of super-scientific menaces for him to combat. One of these, involving an invasion of giant robots, was copied by an early Superman story and helped inspire the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. The setting of Page's sword and sorcery novels is central Asia in the first century A.D., when the legendary Prester John supposedly established a Christian kingdom there. In Page's conception, the man behind the legend was hard-bitten Mediterranean adventurer Hurricane John, or Wan Tengri, a hero in the mold of Robert E. Howard's Conan, though more humorous, verbose, and exaggeratedly omnicompetent as a warrior. He comes close to taking over two cities in the course of his travels, but the series concludes before he establishes his empire. He was featured two stories Flame Winds and Sons of the Bear God. The magic John encounters is unconvincingly rationalized. Page was elected as president of the American Fiction Guild, serving the year from November 1934 through October 1935. Bibliography The Spider (as Grant Stockbridge) Wings of the Black Death (The Spider v. 1, no. 3, Dec. 1933) City of Flaming Shadows (The Spider v. 1, no. 4, Jan. 1934) Empire of Doom (The Spider v. 2, no. 1, Feb. 1934) The Citadel of Hell (The Spider v. 2, no. 2, Mar. 1934) Serpent of Destruction (The Spider v. 2, no. 3, Apr. 1934) The Mad Horde (The Spider v. 2, no. 4, May 1934) Satan's Death Blast (The Spider v. 3, no. 1, Jun. 1934) The Corpse Cargo (The Spider v. 3, no. 2, Jul. 1934) Prince of the Red Looters (The Spider v. 3, no. 3, Aug. 1934) Reign of the Silver Terror (The Spider v. 3, no. 4, Sep. 1934) Builders of the Black Empire (The Spider v. 4, no. 1, Oct. 1934) Death's Crimson Juggernaut (The Spider v. 4, no. 2, Nov. 1934) The Red Death Rain (The Spider v. 4, no. 3, Dec. 1934) The City Destroyer (The Spider v. 4, no. 4, Jan. 1935) The Pain Emperor (The Spider v. 5, no. 1, Feb. 1935) The Flame Master (The Spider v. 5, no. 2, Mar. 1935) Slaves of the Crime Master (The Spider v. 5,