From the spring of 1931 until the summer of 1949, a slim figure cloaked in black fought mobsters, evil scientists, crazed old men and foreign invaders with two...
Category - The Shadow
Prior to writing The Shadow tales, Walter Gibson spent 10 years writing syndicated newspaper columns on puzzles, games and other parlor tricks. He was friends...
The cover of the first issue of The Shadow pulp may have looked familiar to some longtime pulp readers in 1931. In the introduction to Dover’s 1975...
On radio and in the 1994 film, The Shadow uses a telepathic ability to “cloud men's minds so that they cannot see him.” In the pulps, such was not...
On the radio, The Shadow was “in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy, young man-about-town.” In the 325 novels, Lamont Cranston was only one of the guises The...
As in radio, The Shadow’s film career began with him as an announcer of detective stories, not as a lead character. In 1931 — the same year that the namesake...
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