History Articles on The Shadow

• Pulp
  • The Shadow: Mysterious Being of the Night, The Pulp Years by Todd D. Severin and Keith Holt
  • An Interview with Walter B. Gibson about the Pulps
    (Thank you to Greg Daulton for the link!)
  • Hero Pulp Essay: The Shadow - A brief history put together by the folks at M.A.R.D.L.
    (Thank you to Phil Bledsoe for the link!)
  • The Shadow Unmasks: An Investigation - Don't let the 23 second video throw you off. Sroll down below the video, and click on the "Show More" link under the title to read Alan Keeling's essay on whether The Shadow's true identity is Kent Allard or Clifford Gage.
    (Thank you to Alan Keeling for the link!)
• Radio
  • Voices from the Shadows by Anthony Tollin
    From DC's "The Shadow Strikes" # 7: Page 1 | 2 | 3
    (Thank you to OthymianO for the scans!)
  • The Shadow: The History and Mystery of the Radio Program, 1930 - 1954 by Martin Grams, Jr. ( Note: This book is available from Mr. Grams' Website.)
    Read an excerpt here (Note also the Shadow radio ads on left-hand side)
    (Thank you to Martin Grams for the heads-up!)
  • The Radio Detectives - The Shadow
    Originally broadcast on BBC radio on June 17, 1998, Episode 5 of Series 1 has a spotlight on The Shadow from his origins to the 1994 movie.
    Download the MP3 (13MB)
    (Thank you to Nathan Yeoman for the episode!)
  • The Shadow Knows: The Counter-Fantasy of the American Antihero and Symbolic Divergence in Golden Age Radio by Shaun Treat, Daniel Grano, and Jon Croghan
    (Note: this article is in PDF format - Adobe Acrobat Reader is required.)
    - An essay analyzing The Shadow's origins and evolution from the antihero of the Great Depression to the "glamourous detective" of the Golden Age of radio. This article is from the Academia.edu website.
    (Thank you to Stephen Maddux for the article!)
• Comic
  • The Shadow: Strange Creature in Black, The Comic Book Years by Todd D. Severin
  • The Case of the Chemical Syndicate: How The Shadow was the template for Batman by Robert Greenberger
    (Thank you to Keith Holt for the link!)
  • Comic Book Legends Revealed by Brian Cronin
    (Thank you to David Bibb for the link!)
• General Articles
  • The Shadow by Alan Moore - Written in 1970 for Seminar magazine (#2) by the man who would go on to write Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    (Thank you to Andrew Sumner and Phil Bledsoe for the link!)
  • The Shadow Documentary - the Robert Reed documentary featured on DialBforBurbank.com. Note that this is in 10 parts.
    (Thank you to The Shadow 772 and Greg Daulton for the link!)
  • The Shadow and Copyrights
    • Enemies of the State: The Shadow and Metropolis and Ebay vs the Supreme Court... - An essay from Heroic Times blog on copyright and how the Supreme Court is helping big corporations by taking things out of public domain.
      (Thank you to HT for the link!)
    • Author Fail - Canadian author Jeff Bursey's experience with writing a story about The Shadow, The Spider, and G-8 while obtaining copyright permission from Condé Nast.
      (Thank you to Jeff Bursey for the link!)
  • Criminal Odes by John Banville
    A discussion on pulp and crime fiction, and a review of "The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s" (Vintage, 2007) (Thank you to Jeff Bursey for the link!)
  • The Shadow: A Review of the 1994 Movie by John Olsen
    Part 1 | Part 2
    A comparison of the movie to the The Shadow of the pulps and radio.