Tag Archives: The Shadow

Rediscovered: First, Classic Shadow

Posted on July 24, 2021 by Don

Before he makes an attempt at reading the new “Shadow” novel by James Patterson, Brian Leno selected one of the original pulp era sagas to compare it against. “Pretty close to being done with Gray Fist, one of the earlier … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Brian Leno, James Patterson, The Shadow |

Rediscovered: A Shadow Puzzle

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Don

Brian Leno greets me this morning with a puzzler. “A little quiz for the Mean Streets, Don: Which of these three does not belong?” The reboot or reimagining or defunding of The Shadow by James Patterson came out the other … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Brian Leno, Doctor Sax, Jack Kerouac, James Patterson, The Shadow, Tom Krabacher, William S. Burroughs |

Sinister Cinema: A Fistful of Fisher

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Don

Pulps in the Movies. On Sale Every Wednesday. And does our resident pulp/film buff John Locke have a title for you today: I Wake Up Screaming. Yeah, we all get that feeling, right? — now maybe more so than ever. … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lit | Tagged Black Mask, Clues, Detective Fiction Weekly, Halloween, I Wake Up Screaming, John Locke, Laird Cregar, Liberty, Pulps in the Movies, Steve Fisher, The Shadow |

Tour: What Fell Heir to the Pulps?

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Don

Waking up today, trying to pour enough joe down around my lungs to get fumbling fingers to lace the gumshoes so I can go out and do another tour, I find an email from Patrick McEntee. He’s the guy who … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, Tour | Tagged Batman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Comic Book Jungle, Donald Wandrei, Lovecraft, Mike Friedrich, Neal Adams, Patrick McEntee, Pulps, Steve Ditko, The Shadow |

Rediscovered: Thumbing the Hammers in the Gun-Dummy Game

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Don

Hey, can you tell that I am deep into Will Murray’s history of the pulp western, Wordslingers? A history of a genre, an encyclopedia of mini-biographies of a thousand and one fictioneers, and a debate between the proponents of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Daisy Bacon, E. Hoffmann Price, Esquire, Farnsworth Wright, H. Warner Munn, Henry S. Whitehead, Laurie Powers, Love Stories, Lovecraft, Paul S. Powers, PulpFest, Pulps, Seabury Quinn, The Shadow, Weird Tales, Wild West Weekly, Will Murray |

Rediscovered: The eMask, Live Today!

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Don

The brave new world of ebooks! — what does it offer you today? If you’re a fan of pulp era crime fiction, especially the gritty and hard-boiled sort that shot and slugged its way through the pages of Black Mask — home base for Dashiell … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, News, REH | Tagged Black Mask, Eugene Cunningham, Evan Lewis, PulpFest, Raymond Chandler, Robert E. Howard Library, The Shadow, Theodore A. Tinsley, Triggernometry, Walter Gibson |

Rediscovered: Stabbed in the Forehead! (and Other Pulp Thrills)

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Don

How about a postmortem on PulpFest before something else ripping Up and Down These Mean Streets distracts me? It’s always something — latest is juggling a date and time to do a walk for a Private Eye convention in October. (Tours … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, Lit, News, REH | Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Anthony Tollin, Arkham House, Black Mask, Bob Clampett, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Chester Himes, Conan, Count of Monte Cristo, Dillinger, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Erle Stanley Gardner, Esquire, Fantomas, Fat Charley Makley, German Village, Green Lawn Cemetery, James Thurber, Jim Tully, John Carter, Mike Chomko, Nick Certo, O. Henry, Ohio Caverns, Ohio State Pen, PulpFest, Pulps, Rick Lai, Rusty Burke, Serpent Mound, Smart Set, St Marys Ohio, Stark House Press, Terry Zobeck, The Shadow, The Spider, Walker Martin, Walter B. Gibson |

Rediscovered: Yet More Fantômas

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Don

In a couple of hours I’m out the door for PulpFest (boom-boom-boom, boom-boom). Noticed that for the first evening’s programming they have a talk titled The French Connection — “How French Literature May Have Influenced American Pulp Heroes.” Dumas. Fantômas. … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Alexander Dumas, Batman, Fantomas, John D. Squires, Library of Congress, Louis Tracy, M. P. Shiel, PulpFest, The Shadow |

Rediscovered: The Lost World of Pulp!

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Don

In less than a week I’m off to PulpFest 2012 in Columbus, Ohio, with side trips to look up Jim Tully sites in St. Marys plus check out one of the world’s best privately held collections of M. P. Shiel — and … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News, REH | Tagged Brian Leno, Clark Ashton Smith, Conan, Dime Detective, Donald Wandrei, E. Hoffmann Price, Ernest Hemingway, Esquire, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I. V. Frost, Jim Tully, John D. Squires, John Lawrence, M. P. Shiel, Marquis of Broadway, Mike Nevins, Pawang Ali, PulpFest, pure texts, Raymond Chandler, Terry Zobeck, The Shadow, Weird Tales |

Rediscovered: The Shadow of PulpFest

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Don

What do you think, in the photo above shot on the May 8, 2011 tour, I look more like The Shadow and Mike Chomko, swathed in blue, looks more like Superman, right? My hands float, missing the comforting weight of fully-loaded … Continue reading →