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- The Shadow at Wikipedia
- Wikipedia’s comprehensive entry on The Shadow covers the character’s origins as a radio narrator, the complete pulp run, Walter B. Gibson’s role as primary author, and all major adaptations across radio, film, comics and beyond. The best single starting point for anyone new to the character.
- The Shadow Wiki
- The Shadow Wiki includes over 700 pages with listings of pulp, reprint and comic book appearances of The Shadow. Pages include information on characters and locations which appear in the stories, as well as covers.
- MysteryNet: The Shadow (Archived)
- The website for mystery fans has a short profile of The Shadow — a useful quick overview for newcomers before diving into the deeper resources.
Quick links
The pulp originals
- The Holloway Pages: The Shadow
- Clark Holloway’s site includes the introduction to The Shadow and the Golden Master written by Walter B. Gibson. In it, Gibson recalls how The Shadow pulp came about, as well as the pen name Maxwell Grant.
- Electronic Magic
- George W. Geib offers a history of the pulps and The Shadow in a paper read to the Indianapolis Literary Club in 1994. There’s also a link to some pulp cover scans, though none of The Shadow magazine.
- Five Lamonts: A Shadow Chronology
- Win Scott Eckert traces a history of The Shadow from the 1893 birth of Kent Allard through the pulps, paperbacks and comics.
- Casting light among the Shadows
- Arn McConnell looks at clues in The Shadow pulp and Detective Stories Magazine to the real identity of the Night Master in this essay on the Philip José Farmer site.
In other media
- Radio History of The Shadow
- Here’s a brief history of The Shadow on radio. Download a couple of audio clips from the vintage series. Also, the site includes a brief listing of the programs Orson Welles starred in, taken from The Shadow Scrapbook. (A more complete listing appears in the scrapbook.)
- Cliffhangers: The Shadow
- Images, an online magazine, took a look at The Shadow movie serials in its fourth issue. Grant Tracey’s article includes images from the serials.
- The Shadow Comic Strips [Archived]
- Jim Sutton traces the history of The Shadow in comics — from the newspaper strips, to the reprint comic books, to graphic novels.
- M.W. Kaluta: The Shadow
- For some of us, there’s only one comic book artist for The Shadow. That’s Michael Wm. Kaluta. He’s posted some of his Shadow work on his website, including drawings, images from the two Shadow sculptures he has been involved with, and an original short story, The Shadow: My City.
- The Internet Movie Database
- Find out more about The Shadow’s film adventures at the Internet Movie Database:
- The Shadow Strikes (1937).
- International Crime (1938).
- The Shadow (1940).
- The Shadow Returns (1946).
- Behind the Mask (1946).
- The Missing Lady (1946).
- The Invisible Avenger (1958).
- The Shadow (1994).
- Roger Ebert on The Shadow
- Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times offers his favorable take on the 1994 movie.
- Professor Neon on The Shadow
- Professor Neon’s TV & Movie Mania review of the 1994 movie.
- Popwatch Blog
- Gary Susman’s blog at Entertainment Weekly’s website laments “Film franchises that never were,” including The Shadow.
- Cosmo’s Pulp Hero Cafe
- Cinemarquee offers a variety of pulp-related links as part of the website that focuses on film and moviemaking.
Collectors & deep dives
- The Shadow Reprint History [Archived]
- Bill Thom’s Pulp Reprint Index [Archived] offers a bibliography of The Shadow stories that have been reprinted and the publishers.
- The Shadow Knows!
- Collector Dwight Fuhro solicits The Shadow pulps and collectibles at his website. He has a few photos of his collection, and details about what he seeks.
- Collectible Paperbacks
- This essay on collectible paperbacks by Gary Lovisi, taken from Baby Boomer Collectibles, includes a reference to the paperback The Shadow and the Voice of Murder and its role in paperback history.
- Plaid Stallions: 1970s The Shadow Merchandise Gallery
- Taking a look back at the fabulously hip ’70s, this website features a gallery of merchandise for The Shadow, including Halloween costumes, toy cars and aircraft, and play kits. There’s also a separate page for Halloween costumes of The Shadow.
- Biff’s The Shadow Diorama
- Biff (or Bill Underwood), who collects vintage G.I. Joes, has created a custom Shadow figure with the help of some friends and placed him atop a meeting of underworld denizens in New York’s Chinatown in the 1930s.
- The Wold Newton Universe
- Win Scott Eckert expands on Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton theories (see the site for more details) and places The Shadow in the chronology.
- The Shadow quiz
- Test your knowledge of The Shadow with this 15-question quiz (though not all of the questions are accurate).
Further reading & fan community
- The pulp magazine newsgroup
- You can find discussions of The Shadow, and other pulp characters, in the alt.pulp newsgroup on Google Groups. New posts are no longer accepted as of February 2024, but the full archive remains available for browsing and searching.
- The Shadow: Master of Darkness
- In addition to information about The Shadow pulps, radio shows, comics, collectibles and movies, this site also includes a forum, polls, fan fiction and fan art.
- The Shadow’s WWW Sanctum
- John Sies’ Shadow site touches on The Shadow’s appearance on radio, in films, records, comics, fan fiction and more. It doesn’t appear the site has been updated since 2007 and several of the internal links are broken.
- The Shadow 365
- Neil McNally is posting regular notes and facts about The Shadow, along with a pulp cover, at his Tumblr website.
- The Shadow for RPG [Archived]
- David Ebers has adapted The Shadow character for the Feng Shui role playing game.
- Danny’s Shadow and Pulp Links Page [Archived]
- Dan Hill has compiled a list of links to The Shadow websites.
