On September 26, 1937, The Shadow, a new radio drama based on the character as created by Gibson for the pulp magazine, premiered with the story "The Death House Rescue", in which The Shadow was characterized as having "the hypnotic power to …

The following is a list of stories featuring The Shadow, a fictional vigilante. A list of pulp magazine novels featuring The Shadow. All these novels were published under the name Maxwell Grant. Unless noted, all were written by Walter B. Gibson and originally appeared in The Shadow Magazine and its variants, published by Street and Smith.

Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897 – December 6, 1985) was an American writer and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow.

Oct 2, 2021 · The Shadow, originally created to be a mysterious radio show narrator, was developed into a distinctive literary character in 1931 by writer Walter B. Gibson. The Shadow debuted on July 31, 1930, as the mysterious narrator of the radio program Detective Story Hour, which was developed to boost sales of Street & Smith's monthly pulp Detective ...

Street and Smith turned to newspaperman and magician Walter B. Gibson to bring The Shadow to life in the firm’s first character pulp magazine. Gibson, using the pen name Maxwell Grant, wrote 282 of the 325 Shadow novels.

the Shadow, American pulp-magazine vigilante created in 1931 by Walter Gibson for the publishing company Street & Smith. Inspired by the radio character of the same name, the Shadow went on to become one of the most influential and enduring characters of the pulp era.

The Shadow Pulp Series 295 primary works • 295 total works The original magazine issues that ran between 1931-1949, plus the nine novels published by Belmont between 1963-1967

Jul 16, 2021 · So writes Walter B. Gibson in “My Years with The Shadow,” his introduction to THE CRIME ORACLE AND THE TEETH OF THE DRAGON: TWO ADVENTURES OF THE SHADOW, published by Dover Books in 1975. The Shadow had been introduced to …