The Shadow

The Shadow is a character of fiction created by Walter B. Gibson. It is most famous of the heroes of pulps of the years 1930 and 1940. Made even more famous for series diffused with the radio, The Shadow also made its appearance in the Comics, the Comic strip S, the Télévision and seven Film S. However, The Shadow remains especially known for its broadcast emission.

History

Shadow was in the beginning a pseudonym used by a radio operator advertiser for the emission " Detective Story Hour" , a radiophonic adaptation of stories drawn from the pulps éponyme.

The character met such a success that " Street and Smith" the editor of " Detective Story Hour" created the Shadow Magazine .

It was the journalist and magician Walter B. Gibson who was charged to write the first news of Shadow. Under the pseudonym Maxwell Grant, will write 282 of the 325 news. Then it was Lester Tooth, creator of Doc. Savage, which continued to write certain stories.

The radiophonic adventures of Shadow stopped in 1954.

Adaptations

Comic Books

The Shadow was the subject of many adaptations in comics:
  • a comic strip by Vernon Greene in 1938.

  • Street & Smith published a magazine of comics in which a Shadow Comic appeared which lasted 101 numbers between 1940 and 1948.

  • archie Comics published also comics of Shadow, under the label Mighty Comics. At the beginning, Shadow was more or less inspired by the radio broadcast, but Jerry Siegel gave him an aspect more kitsch starting from number 3.

  • the version most famous remainder that left in the years 1970, carried out by Refusals O' Neil and Mike Kaluta and left to cd. Comics. Number 11 of this series remains most interesting for the fans, because it reveals another hero of the pulps, The Avenger

  • Of 1989 to 1992, cd. published a series, The Shadow Strikes , by Gerald Jones and Eduardo Barreto, whose spirit remains faithful at the origins of Shadow.

  • Dark Horse Comics published three mini-series, of which an adaptation of film of 1994.

Films

There were many cinematographic adaptations of Shadow:

  • the film The Shadow Strikes left in 1937, with Rod Rocque in the role titrates.

  • a series of films produced by Columbia left between 1940 and 1946: The Shadow Returns , Behind the Mask and The Missing Lady .

External bonds

  • OTR-Reviews.com -- episodes of Shadow in MP3

  • TheShadowFan.com -- The best source of Shadow

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