Who was The Spider? In the early 1930’s, powerhouse pulp publishers Popular Publications began to lose sales to their main rivals, Street and Smith Publications. While Popular Publications continued to produce such titles as Dime Detective, Dime Mysteries, and Ace-High Westerns, the public fell for the king of the radio detectives, the mysterious Shadow. There…
“I shall become a bat….” – Bruce Wayne, Detective Comics #27 The Dark Knight Rises, the newest Batman film, comes to theaters everywhere in a few days, amid speculation as to whether or not it will be the biggest opening ever for a movie, or simply one of the biggest. There is no doubt that…
He Knew. The Man in Black. The Shadow. The Shadow first saw life in 1930 as the narrator for the Detective Story Hour, a radio show that was devised to boost sales for the pulp magazines printed by Street and Smith Publications. The narrator, voiced first by James LaCurto, and later by Frank Readick, possessed…
You hear the sounds of footfalls outside of The Spice Tin on North Algiers Street, but as you turn, you see only shadows. You look to your companion to make sure that you weren’t just imagining the sounds, but your friend is gone, and you are alone in the narrow street. You can still hear…
You gotta pity the poor souls who lived next door to guys like Hugh B. Cave. Typewriter keys hammering away around the clock, nonstop, for days on end, the sound often banging through cheap, paper-thin walls. If you were creating a mood with someone from the fairer sex, then you might want to break a…
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