Emile Tepperman 
The Avenger 

THE AVENGER was on the prowl tonight. Swiftly, the word spread through the slimy alleys and the dark corners of the great city’s underworld. Hard men who flaunted the police and scoffed at the law sought hurried cover as the word reached them. At fly-specked bars, in closed and shuttered rooms, men buzzed in furtive whispers: ’What’s he after? Has anybody got the dope? Who’s The Avenger gunning for?’ Those were the questions which flew around on the wings of fear…