Columbia released this film featuring the Spider, whom Stan Lee cited as an inspiration for Spider-Man (especially due to the web-pattern imprinted cloak that the Spider wears in this film). Decades later Columbia released a Spider-Man film, and then a sequel to that film, where yet again a spider-themed protagonist fought an opponent named Octopus (also, in one of the Spider novels he fought an opponent called the Iron Man; Lee also created Iron Man).
CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Night of Terror; 2. Death Below; 3. High Voltage; 4. Surrender or Die; 5. Shoot to Kill; 6. Sealed Lips; 7. Shadows of the Night; 8. While the City Sleeps; 9. Doomed!; 10. Flaming Danger; 11. The Road To Peril; 12. The Spider Falls; 13. The Man Hunt; 14. The Double-Cross; 15. The Octopus Unmasked.
The publisher of the Spider soon published a magazine about a criminal plotter called the Octopus around the time of this serial.
This Columbia serial marked director James W. Horne's move from comedy to serials, where he would spend the rest of his career.