Autograph Hound Saturday once more, and let’s keep the Maxwell Grant/John Hancock theme going.
Brian Leno per norm supplies the signature, this time from the 1960s run of Belmont paperback originals of The Shadow ghosted by Dennis Lynds under the house name Maxwell Grant. Typically denigrated as a “Spy-Fi” reading of the character, not up there with the near 300 short novels done for The Shadow Magazine by Walter B. Gibson. Lynds did all of the Belmont PBOs, except the first one — The Return of the Shadow. That one came off Gibson’s typewriter and of course is considered canonical.
Note that Brian complains about the smell off his copy. I bet Brian would prefer to have a smelly book than no stinking book at all.
Here’s Brian:
Thought I’d let you see the latest addition to my Shadow collection.
Book is in really nice shape but if The Shadow was trying to hide in the darkness I’d still be able to smell him out.
But I guess it was cheap enough and the smell isn’t overpowering, so it’ll do.
Gibson’s double signature incorporating Maxwell Grant is, of course, cooler.
