The Spider Returns is a 1941 15-chapter Columbia movie serial based on the pulp magazine character The Spider. It was the fourteenth of the 57 serials released by Columbia and a sequel to their 1938 serial The Spider’s Web. The first episode runs 32 minutes, while the other 14 are approximately 17 minutes each.

Plot
Amateur criminologist Richard Wentworth, formerly the masked vigilante, The Spider, brings his former alter ego out of retirement for 15 action-packed chapters to help his old friend, police commissioner Kirk (Kirkpatrick in the pulp novels), battle a dangerous, power-obsessed maniac called The Gargoyle. This mysterious crime lord and his henchmen threaten the world with acts of sabotage and wholesale murder in an effort to wreck the U. S. national defense.

Cast
Warren Hull as The Spider/Richard Wentworth/Blinkey McQuade
Mary Ainslee as Nita Van Sloan
Dave O’Brien as Jackson
Joseph W. Girard as Commissioner Kirk
Kenneth Duncan as Ram Singh
Corbet Harris as McLeod/The Gargoyle
Bryant Washburn as Westfall
Charles F. Miller as Mr. Van Sloan
Anthony Warde as Trigger (henchmen)
Harry Harvey as Stephan
Forrest Taylor as Voice of The Gargoyle