It is not known for sure what countries did or did not embrace The Spider. This section of the site represents only what I, and a tiny handful of fans, have discovered over the years.
NetherlandsA.G. Schoonderbeek of Laren, Netherlands, published five Spider books in the 1940s as part of their Raven-Reeks series of imported mystery fiction. These all had cool red-tinged two-color covers based on the original John Newton Howitt pulp art, and even included some of J. Fleming Gould's interior illustrations. In the late 1950s or early '60s, N.V. Internationale Romanuitgaven of Groningen and Amsterdam, put out two strange, un-Spidery paperbacks. Go to this page for more info.
Argentina
For years Los Pulps
has listed twenty Spider reprints by Editorial Tor, as part of their "Coleccion Misterio."
Recently I was lucky enough to get my hands on a few of these and found to my delight
that it appears these twenty stories were printed twice -- once in 1941 and then again in 1947!
And new translations continue to appear: Earlier this year, a Brazillian
Pulp fan recognized a Spider story in a 1936 issue of the anthology magazine, Tipperary.
Mexico
In the late 1930s at least two Spider stories were reprinted in Spanish as part of a weekly anthology called
Detectives Y Bandidos, published by Publicaciones Herrerias, S.A.
England
The Spider magazine was issued briefly in England in the late 1940s, courtesy of Thorpe & Porter
who reprinted a number of Popular Publications titles.
In the Seventies, the Pocket Books paperbacks
crossed the Atlantic as well, with all-new, equally-misguided covers.