“When your people need you most… When Death walks the earth like a man…” spoke Mar-lar-delan, Richard Wentworth’s counsellor in the ancient mysticism of the East, “… in that hour, my son — you will die!” Had the black hour come? Surely, mass murder had the world by the throat. New York City itself listed countless slayings by innocent people! And a man called Death — whose only profit was more death — was behind it all! In such a crisis, the Spider undertakes what may be his last foray!