Dates
- Cover date
- May 1993
- On sale
- March 18, 1993
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Story arc: The Tarantula
This is part 2 of 4. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Sandman Mystery Theatre #1
- Sandman Mystery Theatre #2
- Sandman Mystery Theatre #3
- Sandman Mystery Theatre #4
Creators
Stories
- The Tarantula Act Two · 25 pages
The Sandman pushes Dian aside and continues down the fire escape, having just eavesdropped on police plans to catch the murderer. Dian insists on viewing the body of the latest victim and claims it is not Catherine, who, at the moment is being tortured by "The Tarantula". A veiled female figure insists that Catherine knows something and orders the hooded man to continue. A tense dinner scene is enacted at the Goldmans'. The Sandman gets a clue from a taxi driver before the police do. As Catherine awakes she is shown a manacled woman next to her who is about to be tortured as an example.
Publisher’s description
His first victim dead, the Tarantula has caught another in his web. While the police try to untangle the kidnapper's plot, Dian Belmont tries to unravel the threads linking the murder, the masked stranger she cornered in the Ladies' Room at the police precinct, and the increasingly intriguing Wesley Dodds.
Reprinted in
Sandman Mystery Theatre (1995), Sandman Mystery Theatre (2016), Sandman Mystery Theatre Compendium (2023)