128 pages; soft cover; prose

For the first time ever, the Avon edition of The Phantom is back in print! This exciting installment, Volume 8 offers the tale: "The Hydra Monster!" What is the meaning of HYDRA, a mysterious evil that spans oceans and continents? Who are the black clad men with the letter V tattooed on shaven skulls, who appear in the wake of wars, earthquakes, fires, and other catastrophes? The final mumbled words of a dying man draw the Phantom into an amazing web of violence, crime, and murder, the web of the Hydra Monster.