BY HOWARD HOPKINS http://howardhopkins.blogspot.com/2011/03/shadows-80th-anniversary.html The Shadow’s 80th Anniversary Eighty years ago, on March 6, 1931, the famous cloaked avenger of crime made his debut on newsstands across America. The first of 325 pulp novels, The Living Shadow, written by newspaperman/magician Walter B. Gibson under the house name of Maxwell Grant, brought the mysterious crime fighter…
Eighty years ago, on March 6th, 1931, the first issue of The Shadow Magazine appeared on American newsstands. The Shadow Magazine was the first modern character/hero magazine, reviving a heroic fiction format that had disappeared decades earlier with the demise of dime novels. In the pages of The Shadow Magazine, magician-turned-journalist Walter B. Gibson refashioned…
Congratulations to Brian Cronin on the 300th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, his ongoing series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true, false, or somewhere in between. Click here for an archive of the previous two hundred and ninety-nine, or buy the book he got out of it, Was Superman…
Los Angeles, CA February 1, 2011 – Today, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) kicked off a 12-month marketing, promotions, publicity and media campaign, “A Year Of A Million Moments,” to celebrate its robust catalog of movies made memorable, quotable, and unforgettable by the people who watch and embrace them. A YEAR OF A MILLION…
On October 2, 1950, Peanuts premiered on October 2, 1950, in eight newspapers: The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Tribune, The Allentown Call-Chronicle, The Bethlehem Globe-Times, The Denver Post, The Seattle Times, and The Boston Globe. It began as a daily strip, reprinted above. If you’ve never heard of Peanuts, I, for one,…
I wrote this a year ago last Friday. Amazing how time flies, doesn’t it?
No, we aren’t going to forget– but we aren’t going to let it paralyze us any longer either, or keep us from being kind. If you feel like paying your respects, go watch 110 Stories. Or give a pint of blood today. Or help a scout troop. Give two Korans for every one that’s burned….
Well, that went by quickly. Peter David was the first to stump me, your now-humbled expert. Its been so long since I watched Superman the Movie I missed his question: In what city and state did Miss Teschmacher’s mother live (prompting her to get Superman’s promise to save her?) I guessed Newark but it was…
DC Comics was born in the fall of 1935 and they are celebrating their diamond anniversary in many ways including a digital iTunes experience with movies such as The Dark Knight or animated features such as Superman: Doomsday available for download complete with extras. You can even experience the previous nine seasons of the WB/CW’s…
“Are you kidding? Who ever heard of Hugh Jackman? He’s a 6’2 Australian, not a 5’2 Canadian! And he does musicals! How can he play Wolverine? And he’s not even going to be in the costume!” Yeah yeah yeah. Don’t fib about it, we have archives of you saying it on rec.arts.comics. Nevertheless, about a…
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has kicked off a 12-month marketing, promotions, publicity and media campaign to honor and promote the studio’s legacy and library. The celebration will include the release of more than 300 films on Blu-ray Disc and DVD, showcasing a remarkable, rich and unparalleled heritage of great movies, Academy Award®-winners and box…
February 15th has some fantastic birthdays. Jokers such as the late Chris Farley, Harvey Korman, and Cesar Romero. Former Fake TV Doc and current jewelry designer Jane Seymour. Cartoonist and creator of Television’s longest running cartoon (the Simpsons) Matt Groening. So Happy Birthday to all of those great people and one film that helped shape…
