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* IronWoobie: Through the series he's riddled with bullets, paralyzed, blinded, drugged, infected with rabies, framed, betrayed, disgraced, and comatose while fascists take over. All of this has an emotional effect on him, but he carries on.

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* IronWoobie: TheDeterminator: Through the series he's riddled with bullets, paralyzed, blinded, drugged, infected with rabies, framed, betrayed, disgraced, and comatose while fascists take over. All of this has an emotional effect on him, but he carries on.

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* BackFromTheDead: He appeared to die at the end of, but returned in. However,

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* BackFromTheDead: He appeared to die at the end of, of ''Prince of the Red Looters'', but returned in. in "Green Globes of Death''. However, it turns out the man using the identity in his second appearance was hired by the real Fly to take revenge, as the original Fly's seeming death permanently injured him and he couldn't do it himself.



* BackFromTheDead: He appeared to die at the end of, but returned in. However, it turns out the man using the identity in his second appearance was hired by the real Fly to take revenge, as the original Fly's seeming death permanently injured him and he couldn't do it himself.

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* BackFromTheDead: He appeared to die at the end of, but returned in. However, it turns out of ''The Spider and the man using Faceless One'', only to return in ''Slaves of the identity in his second appearance was hired by Laughing Death'' and ''The Spider and the real Fly to take revenge, as the original Fly's seeming death permanently injured him Deathless One''.
* MasterOfDisguise: Impersonates Kirkpatrick, Wentworth,
and he couldn't do it himself.Ram Singh at various times.
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* BackFromTheDead: He appeared to die at the end of, but returned in. However,

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* BackFromTheDead: He appeared to die at the end of, but returned in. However, it turns out the man using the identity in his second appearance was hired by the real Fly to take revenge, as the original Fly's seeming death permanently injured him and he couldn't do it himself.

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* BigBad: In ''Empire State'' (issues 60-62)
* OneSteveLimit: In an aversion, several unrelated villains are confusingly aldo called The Master

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* BigBad: In ''Empire State'' (issues 60-62)
60-62).
* OneSteveLimit: In an aversion, several unrelated villains are confusingly aldo also called The MasterMaster.
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* DeathIsCheap: Dies and is buried in ''The Pain Emperor'', but in a rare move he inexplicably returns in ''Reign of the Death Fiddler''.

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* DeathIsCheap: BackFromTheDead: Dies and is buried in ''The Pain Emperor'', but in a rare move he inexplicably returns in ''Reign of the Death Fiddler''.



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!! Villains
[[folder: The Fly]]
* BackFromTheDead: He appeared to die at the end of, but returned in. However,
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[[folder: Munro]]
* BackFromTheDead: He appeared to die at the end of, but returned in. However,
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[[folder: Tang-Akhlut, the Living Pharaoh]]
* BigBad: Of issues 36-39.
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[[folder: The Master]]
The leader of the fascist "Party of Justice" who takes over New York with his Black Police.
* BigBad: In ''Empire State'' (issues 60-62)
* OneSteveLimit: In an aversion, several unrelated villains are confusingly aldo called The Master
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* KilledOffForReal: Poisoned in ''Laborstory of the Damned''.

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* KilledOffForReal: Poisoned in ''Laborstory ''Laboratory of the Damned''.

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* MarkOfShame

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* MarkOfShameCallingCard: He brands the corpses of the criminals he kills with a spider symbol so that everybody will know it was The Spider who killed them.
* IronWoobie: Through the series he's riddled with bullets, paralyzed, blinded, drugged, infected with rabies, framed, betrayed, disgraced, and comatose while fascists take over. All of this has an emotional effect on him, but he carries on.



* TerrorHero

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* TerrorHeroMasterOfDisguise




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* TerrorHero: He dresses up as a fanged hunchback and murders criminals, branding their corpses with his spider symbol.
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!! Main Cast
[[folder: Richard Wentworth / The Spider]]
Richard Wenthworth is a rich playboy who sometimes aids the police, but more often operates outside the law as The Spider which makes him a wanted outlaw.
* MarkOfShame
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: He's engaged to Nita, but puts off their marriage until The Spider's work is done because he doesn't want her to be disgraced in the case he's unmasked.
* TerrorHero
* OpenSecret: A lot of people seem to know he's The Spider, but the authorities have no actual evidence.

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[[folder: Nita Van Sloan]]
Wentworth's girlfriend and partner in his war on crime.
* ActionGirl: Takes part in battles, and even acts as The Spider in Wentworth's stead in five stories. In ''Spider and the Slaves of Hell'', she creates her own alias to act under, the Black Widow.
* DamselInDistress: However, she's often abducted or otherwise victimized by the villains.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Her family's wealth is gone because of the war and the Great Deppression.
* TechnicolorEyes: Her eyes are called violet.

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[[folder: Ram Singh]]
Ram Singh is a sikh who became Wenthworth's aide, after Wentworth saved him and his father from a massacre in India.
* BigGuy: He's a big man, and gets bigger as the series progresses.
* BloodKnight: Enjoys fighting.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy
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!! Supporting Characters
[[folder: Ronald Jackson]]
Wentworth's man-at-arms since World War I, Ronald Jackson is now his chauffeur and aids him in his activities as The Spider.
* DeathIsCheap: Dies and is buried in ''The Pain Emperor'', but in a rare move he inexplicably returns in ''Reign of the Death Fiddler''.
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[[folder: Jenkyns]]
Wentworth family's old butler.
* SatelliteCharacter: He's never fully fleshed out, and only has a few lines.
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[[folder: Commissioner Kirkpatrick]]
Stanley Kirkpatrick is New York's commissioner of police, and Wentworth's friend. But he suspects Wenthworth is The Spider, and will arrest him if he finds irrefutable evidence.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist
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[[folder: Professor Brownlee]]
Ezra Brownlee is the Wentworths' family friend, a physics professor, and an inventor. He creates The Spider's gadgets, including the seal ring.
* KilledOffForReal: He's murdered in ''Dragon Lord of the Underworld''.
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[[folder: Apollo]]
Apollo is a great dane Wentworth gives to Nina to keep her company.
* KilledOffForReal: Poisoned in ''Laborstory of the Damned''.
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