"The most puzzling bewildering, delightful crook in the annals of crime!" That"s what Herman Carruthers, the editor of the Morning News-Argus, had called the Grey Seal over his after-dinner coffee at the St. James Club with rich man-about-town Jimmie Dale. He cracked safes, this Grey Seal. He wore a mask. And although he left his mark at each job -- he never actually took any loot. What Carruthers could not have known was the handsome man he was talking to was the Grey Seal. Nor that Jimmy Dale, blackmailed by a mysterious woman who knew his secrets, was about to start a war on the men who ran the underground of New York City . . . The Crime Club! Here is the first volume of the exciting stories of the pulp hero Father of all Masked Crimefighters from the Shadow to Batman to the Lone Ranger -- Jimmy Dale!