Category - The Shadow

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The Shadow

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...

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The man behind the magic

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...

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The Shadow’s magic

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...

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Who is The Shadow?

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...

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The Shadow on film

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...

Pulp events

Events are subject to change.

Nov. 24, 2024: The Paperback & Pulp Book Fair at the Bloomsbury Ephemera Fair, London, U.K.

Dec. 7, 2024: Pulp Adventurecon, Langhorne, Pa.

April 4-6, 2025: Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, Lombard, Ill.

Aug. 7-10, 2025: PulpFest 2025, including FarmerCon, ERBFest, and Doc Con, Pittsburgh, Pa.

On–going:
• Gotham Pulp Collectors Club, 1 p.m. the third Saturday of each month via Zoom. Check its website for location.