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Operator #5 #26 Death's Ragged Army
What has become known as the "War and Peace of the Pulps" commenced with the searing novel, Death's Ragged Army, which appeared in the July, 1936 issue of Operator #5 magazine. The legions of Emperor Maximilian swept in and took over New England, initiating the Second War of Independence. Jimmy Christopher and his friends and allies in the Intelligence Service were enlisted in a desperate undertaking to hurl back to Europe the forces of the Purple Emperor. The legendary Purple Invasion series had begun and lasted an amazing 13 installments. In order to enjoy the unfolding storyline, it's best to start with Death's Ragged Army and read sequentially through to The Siege that Brought the Black Death. These 13 novels represent the most daring and unique departure ever in this kind of pulp magazine. Operator #5 and the Purple Invasion series returns in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today's readers in electronic format.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #38 The Siege that Brought the Black Death
Pitted against the Mongol land forces, and the Purple Fleet, bombarding from the sea - New York's embattled army had stood off the long, bitter siege. At last, victory was within the grasp of Operator #5 and his little band of American fighters. Then came the Emperor's final trump card - a foul, slaying miasma which loosed itself over the land, bringing a torturing, horrible death - which all men knew and feared as Europe's medieval Black Plague! Never before had an action hero failed to resolve the main threat by the end of his own magazine's lead novel. But with The Purple Invasion in the Operator #5 magazine, Jimmy Christopher was forced to fight on and on, with no clear victory in sight. In fact, the situation simply got worse and worse with each intense installment. Long-time characters perished. New ones were introduced. They fell in battle. It was heroic tragedy on a scale never before seen. Tepperman also threw enough hopeless scenarios into the mix that each and every issue, readers believed Jimmy Christopher just might not make it. Yet he did in true hero fashion, always the worse for wear. Almost as a response, the next fearsome battle would be worse. It appeared Operator #5 might not ever stop the Purple Invasion. Just when all seemed hopeless, Emile C. Tepperman finally brought the Purple Invasion to a conclusion in the March, 1938 issue. The wrap-up was sudden, and almost entirely unexpected. In the novels leading up to this climactic story, it appeared that the Purple Invasion storyline was destined to go on and on and on. New York had fought through a horrific, nightmarish captivity. With an end in sight, Operator #5 and his ragtag army found hope. Then, from out of the Emperor's devil cauldron, rose a scourge from a dark past! The Siege that Brought the Black Death is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby. Originally published in the March-April 1938 issue of Operator #5 magazine.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #1 The Masked Invasion
James Christopher is the real name of the legendary Intelligence Service agent designated as Operator #5. Armed with a .45 automatic and a flexible rapier concealed in his belt, he stood against the fearsome forces-both foreign and domestic-who were bent on destroying the United States of America. During the dark days of the Great Depression, when Europe was overrun by fascist dictators, he was our greatest secret agent. Invisible, secret, deadly, the Masked Empire wielded its dread power of darkness throughout the nation. Havoc and ruin followed the terror-torn thousands who fled the country to escape the Thirteenth Darkness. America, faced with certain disaster, placed her chance of survival in one man's capable hands-and prayed that the warrior gods might smile once more upon the miracle man of her Secret Service-Jimmy Christopher!
Curtis Steele (Author), Richard Epcar (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #10 The Red Invader
A happy crowd, inspired by the spirit of Christmas, was milling joyously in Times Square, New York. Suddenly, cutting through the sounds of gayety, came a shrill whine. It became louder, and at the very second of midnight, a gigantic shell exploded, killing, maiming, destroying! At twelve hour intervals thereafter - no man knew in advance where - another shell burst devastatingly. Two great powers were openly accused in the newspapers. War - savage and bloody - was imminent, and Operator #5 realized that he had encountered his most cunning foe, the clever woman spy - Radi Havara! Go with crack Secret Service agent Jimmy Christopher as he meets the challenge of The Red Invader, torn from the pages of Operator #5 magazine, January 1935.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #11 The League of War Monsters
A group of bitter men - a secret League of War - was ready to plunge the world into a new, earth-wide conflict. They issued orders, and bloody organized murder was loosed in the heart of Europe! And behind this carnage, a single man was scheming to make himself the Dictator of the World! Never before had a single person conceived such a colossal plan for profiting from the slaughter of humans. He had overcome all obstacles - except one lone avenger, Operator #5, America's secret service ace. Can Jimmy Christopher, keep the nations of the world from hurling themselves into a war which can bring nothing but universal defeat, misery, and slavery? Go with crack Secret Service agent Jimmy Christopher as he meets the challenge of The League of War Monsters, torn from the pages of Operator #5 magazine, February 1935.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #12 The Army of the Dead
The news spread like wild-fire. A man had solved the problem of the ages - he was bringing the dead back to life! Operator #5, ace of the American Secret Service, recognized the grave menace. He realized the danger if the gigantic advances of modern science were employed selfishly by unscrupulous men. And that precisely was the danger facing his native land! The Master of Death, using the promise of life everlasting, was cunningly building an army of fanatic, half-mad followers, men who were burning, pillaging and slaying at the will of the man-monster they worshipped! Go with crack Secret Service agent Jimmy Christopher as he meets the challenge of The Army of the Dead, torn from the pages of Operator #5 magazine, March 1935.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #13 March of the Flame Marauders
Oil - black gold - the blood of Mother Earth! America had squandered its precious reserves and a syndicate of skilled saboteurs was destroying the remaining store! With all National defense rendered helpless for want of it, bitter despair gripped the hearts of the country's millions. Pillage, slaughter, and slavery - misery and death - threatened each American! And Jimmy Christopher, Operator #5 of the United States Intelligence, was gambling his life recklessly in a valiant effort to save his native land from extinction! Go with crack Secret Service agent Jimmy Christopher as he meets the challenge of March of the Flame Marauders, torn from the pages of Operator #5 magazine, April 1935.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #14 Blood Reign of the Dictator
By plague and fire, bribery and chicanery, terrorism and extortion, the insane dictator Ursus Young has established himself as the supreme ruler of America. Who is left with sufficient strength to thwart him? Already he has scattered far and wide the organization of which Operator #5, America's Secret Service Ace, forms so important a part. Against such tremendous, dictatorial power Jimmy Christopher finds himself battling with a desperation such as he has never felt before... Go with crack Secret Service agent Jimmy Christopher as he meets the challenge of Blood Reign Of The Dictator, torn from the pages of Operator #5 magazine, May 1935.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #15 Invasion of the Yellow Warlords
By land and by sea the ferocious Hordes descend upon the United States, dealing destruction with new and horrifying weapons: with viscid poisons, with lethal gases, with flaming thermite - and with an invisible death-force more fearful, more annihilating than any weapon yet known to man. Before the ruthless Asiatic Invaders even Operator #5, America's Secret Service Ace, stands helpless - hunted like a rat, harried and set upon by those who should be striving shoulder to shoulder with him to turn back the greatest Threat ever to assail the bulwarks of Western Civilization! Go with crack Secret Service agent Jimmy Christopher as he meets the challenge of Invasion of the Warlords, torn from the pages of Operator #5 magazine, June 1935.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #16 Legions of the Death Master
Like the tentacles of a gigantic and loathsome octopus, the ends of that infamous international espionage ring had stretched out across the United States. Lusting for power, the fiendish leader of that ring was stripping the country of its entire armaments; butchering, in the very capital of the nation, the patriots who pleaded for adequate war-strength. Operator #5, America's Secret Service Ace, tried to oppose that ruthless Death Master - but Jimmy Christopher fought a power that scattered his own helpers, crippled the Intelligence, and threatened invasions that would have spelled utter annihilation! Go with crack Secret Service agent Jimmy Christopher as he meets the challenge of Legions of the Death Master, torn from the pages of Operator #5 magazine, July 1935.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #17 Hosts of the Flaming Death
Gold - the mineral which fosters war! - threatened to plunge America into a chaos of revolt, misery and death. In Washington, the fortified vaults of the nation's Treasury lay empty - stripped of wealth. A madman, obscured in mystery, his face concealed by a mask of the precious metal, had allied himself with powerful foreign magnates to deliver the United States into misery and bondage. Robbed of her riches, her plans for military security disrupted, her strategic stores destroyed and her armament factories wrecked, the most powerful nation in the world seemed inevitably doomed. Go with Jimmy Christopher as he faces the Hosts of the Flaming Death, torn from the pages of Operator #5 magazine, August 1935.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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Operator #5 #18 Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult
Mysterious happenings - cloudbursts in the arid desert, churches and skyscrapers horribly destroyed, priests and pastors oddly maddened, Intelligence agents craftily slaughtered - all these heralded the attack on America by the Son of Kasma - spokesman for a vicious, Oriental cult. The populace flocked to the new religion in self-defense. Our country seemed helplessly doomed... And Operator #5, charged with treason by a power-drunk authority; his best friend's honor, and his own, held forfeit; his beloved Diane captive to the Messiah, must battle alone against a more cunning invader than ever menaced America before! Go with Jimmy Christopher as he meets the challenge of Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult, torn from the pages of Operator #5 magazine, September 1935.
Curtis Steele (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)
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