Tag Archives: Walter B. Gibson

Rediscovered: Another Maxwell Grant

Posted on January 10, 2026 by Don

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Autographs, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Dennis Lynds, The Shadow, Walter B. Gibson |

Rediscovered: The Shadow, Surrounded or Surmounted?

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Don

As I said I would, I dug into the various lists of seven fave The Shadow novels suggested by the poll in The Shadowed Circle Compendium. I figured out the ones that sounded like Must Reads for me. Five of … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Anthony Tollin, Evan Lewis, Jeopardy!, Maxwell Grant, The Shadow, The Shadowed Circle Compendium, Walter B. Gibson |

Rediscovered: Know The Shadow. . .

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Don

Check out that great Chinatown alley. Can’t you just see Lon Chaney as a vicious legless Lord of the Underworld creeping over the stone bricks, enrapt in savage dreams of subjugating the city? But Chaney kept his lair in San … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lit, News | Tagged Alec Baldwin, Ian McKellan, James Reasoner, John C. Moran, Lon Chaney, Orson Welles, The Shadow, The Shadowed Circle Compendium, Walter B. Gibson, Will Murray |

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: 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 →