It was a weird, new weapon in the annals of crime. It sucked screaming people, automobiles, huge buildings-everything-into its hungry vortex of destruction, while its owner, a monster called the Brand, safely conducted his awful reign of terror! Such was the enemy Dick Wentworth sought to destroy. But how could even the inimitable Spider hope to win, when Kirkpatrick assigned a human bloodhound to the sole task of eliminating... the Spider!