Saturday's random pulp cover: Complete Underworld Novelettes "The Woman in the Chair": Summer, 1932

 Awesome cover from Lyman Anderson.  I absolutely love these vignette style images.  If you want to know a little more about Mr. Anderson just click here.

ON THE AIR: October 19 & October 20, 1939

 

Ep 84_A Visit From Florette

  Ep 85_Nyland Smith and Paul Sterling Zombies

 

The missing episodes.  It's too bad that we don't have a recording of episode 138 "The Purple Shadow". 

 Episodes #136-#137
Nayland Smith has successfully thwarted Dr. Fu Manchu's plans for world dictatorship. By a clever ruse, Smith and Petrie determine the headquarters of the Si-Fan, ruled by the nefarious doctor, but Fu Manchu escapes capture by jumping into the Thames River. The police spray the river with bullets and, when no dead body comes to the surface, it is assumed that Fu Manchu has at last been killed. Dr. Petrie and his wife Kâramanèh retire to their home in Cairo where Petrie resumes his work researching tropical diseases.

Episode #138
While continuing his research in Cairo, Dr. Petrie receives a visit from Paul Sterling, a botanist based in France who begs Petrie to fly with him to Paris to investigate a strange strain of sleeping sickness. The disease is known as "The Purple Shadow", as a strange purple stain forms on the victim's forehead just prior to death. Could this deadly illness be the work of the insidious Fu Manchu? 
1939 – 15:00 – Syndicated by Radio Attractions

Episodes #139-#141
Dr. Petrie has developed Formula 654, the remedy for a strange epidemic that has struck parts of Europe. However, the formula has gone missing and, with Petrie afflicted with the disease himself, Nayland Smith has been assigned to locate it. Smith returns from London and learns from Paul Sterling of Fah Lo Suee’s attempt to visit Petrie while in the guise of his wife. Smith sends Sterling and Superintendent Weymouth to Petrie's quarters, where both are overcome by mimosa fumes. When Smith arrives, he discovers Sterling gone. Smith and Weymouth, pursing a clue to the mystery, learn that Smith has died. Traveling to the hospital in a cab, he too is overcome by Mimosa gas and eventually returns to consciousness in a vast underground laboratory, where he also finds Sterling. Suddenly a glass panel opens, revealing Dr. Fu Manchu himself.

 

The Shadow #5 page 19

 

"The future is darker for tonight's butchery."

The Shadow #5 page 18

 

"Houdini's secrets led to war."

The Shadow #5 page 17

 

"Like a serpent in the grass, justice is ever watchful..."

The Shadow #5 page 16

 

"There is more blood on your hands than mine."

The Shadow #5 page 15

 

"He is a showman after my own heart!"