Movie Serials
There were two Spider movie serials produced, the first being 1938's The Spider’s Web; Spider pulp magazine novelist Norvell Page worked on that first serial's screenplay. The second serial was 1941's The Spider Returns; it was written by adventure and science fiction pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard. Both were 15-chapter cliffhangers produced by Columbia Pictures, starring Warren Hull as Richard Wentworth. Both serials featured a dramatic wardrobe enhancement to the Spider's magazine appearance: his simple black cloak and head mask were now over-printed with a white spider's web pattern and then matched to his usual plain black fedora. This striking addition gave the silver screen Spider an appearance more like that of a traditional superhero, like other comics heroes being adapted for the era's 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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