The Shadow Fan returns for Episode 42! This time around, Barry Reese talks about a recent interview with Will Murray that suggested the possibility of a Doc Savage/The Shadow novel before reviewing Destination: Moon by Dennis Lynds (1967 Belmont Series) and The Shadow: Year One # 4 from Dynamite Comics! If you love pulp’s greatest…
Shadow Art: Michael W. Kaluta The Shadow Fan Podcast hosted by New Pulp Author Barry Reese is back with two all-new episodes. The Chinese DisksThe Shadow Fan returns with another episode, filled with discussion on the greatest of the pulp heroes! In this episode, host Barry Reese talks about the continuity heavy “The Chinese Disks,”…
The sixth episode of Barry Reese’s The Shadow Fan Podcast is now available. This time around, the Shadow Fans talk about two classic novels, Sanctum’s upcoming new release, and Inspector Delka! Listen to the latest episode now at http://theshadowfan.libsyn.com/the-death-tower.
Cover Art: Howard Chaykin New Pulp Author Barry Reese takes an in-depth, spoiler-filled look at Howard Chaykin’s 4-issue limited series from 1986! The Shadow Fan goes through the entire story, with summaries of the action, commentary on the creative decisions taken and discussion about the differences between Chaykin’s take and Walter Gibson’s traditional version. Listen…
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron FortierTHE WRECKERBy Justin Scott (& Clive Cussler)Berkley Books562 pages Several years ago best selling writer Clive Cussler created a new turn of the century hero in Isaac Bell, an operative for the Van Dorn Detective Agency in the early 1900s. Bell appeared in Cussler’s excellent novel, “The Chase.” It is…
August 26, 2011 Harlan Zinck, a long time member of the Radio Archives family, has moved on to take advantage of new opportunities. Radio Archives wishes Harlan all the best in his future endeavors. Starting with this issue, the Radio Archives Newsletter will be bi-weekly and emailed to you every other Friday afternoon. Tommy Hancock,…
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews of All Things Pulp by Tommy Hancock “THE MISSING LADY”Monogram PicturesStarring Kane Richmond, Barbara Reed, George Chandler, et al.Directed by Phil KarlsonWritten by George CallahanBased on THE SHADOW stories by Walter Gibson from THE SHADOW Magazine1946 Yes, Virginia, there was a SHADOW movie before Alec Baldwin (which, by the way, I enjoyed…
May 27, 2011 It’s the Latest Newsletter from RadioArchives.com! * New in Old Time Radio: Joe Palooka* New in Pulp Fiction: Doc Savage Volume 48 and The Shadow Volume 49* A Pirate’s Booty in Our Treasure Chest* Also New in Old Time Radio: The Jimmy Durante Show, Volume 2* Letters, We Get Letters… Have a…
Pro Se Productions, the company sponsoring PULP ARK, the first annual Pulp Convention/Creators Conference being held May 13-15 in Batesville, Ark., announced today that major publisher Simon and Schuster is one of the many publishers taking part in the activities. According to Tommy Hancock, Pulp Ark Coordinator, Simon and Schuster is participating in Pulp Ark…
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…
In the first part of our extensive interview with publisher Anthony Tollin (yesterday), we learned how a story that apepared in The Shadow Magazine some two and a half years prior to Batman’s debut, proved to me the template for the Cpaed Crusader’s debut in Detective Comics #27. This is fodder for the historians who…
Every so often historians find something that appears to be the final piece to a puzzle. Comic book historians have certain mysteries or questions they’d like answers to. Recently, Anthony Tollin and Will Murray pinpointed the source material that helped inspire Bob Kane and Bill Finger to create the character of Batman. The results can…
