The Spider Ring
Originally offered to pulp readers for 25 cents in coin or stamp, Popular
Publication's Spider ring is one of the most sought after premiums today!
Less than 20 are known to exist.
Good $2000 | Fine $4750 | Near Mint $9000 (Hake's
premiums price guide)
In 1996, Diamond Galleries offered a 250-copy limited edition reproduction
(in gold) of the Spider and Operator #5 rings. $50 a piece/$95 for the
set.
 RIGHT
NOW you can download an official FREE paper Spider
Ring! It is a tribute to the metal original, as well as paper premiums
from the 1930s and '40s. It's also the best we can do over the existing
phone lines. First download the Adobe
Acrobat Reader, and follow its instructions on configuring your web
browser to identify PDF files. Then download the Spider
Ring page (106k), print it on your laser printer, and assemble. It's a small
taste of the The
Spider Kit, available at Pulp Fiction Central.
NOTE: Contrary to popular belief, the Spider did not leave his
Spider Seal by punching bad guys with the ring (that was the Phantom with
his Skull Ring!), he had a specially built cigarette lighter to mark his
victims.
 The Spider Ring QuickTimeVR
Want a better look? Now you can pan 360 degrees around Diamond Galleries' reproduction of the Spider Ring, with this QuickTime VR movie! Also allows 60 degrees of vertical panning! Very cool, but be warned: It's an 777k download!
Spider Ring QuickTimeVR page. QTVR object embedded in
an html page, with additional text about the Spider Ring phenomenon. Requires QuickTime
2.5 and Plug-In (with QTVR components).
Spider Ring QuickTimeVR File (777k), for viewing offline.
Requires QuickTimeVR Player.
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The Spider Pencil
Theater give-away. Have your card punched when you
see the first fourteen chapters and admission to the final chapter is free.
Or, don't have your card punched at all, and end up with a valuable collectible
sixty years later. The Spider Returns pressbook indicates that theaters also gave
away Spider masks, but no examples have turned up, to my knowledge.