Tag Archives: Walter Gibson

Rediscovered: The Shadow and His Signatories

Posted on December 28, 2025 by Don

Autograph Hound Super-Sunday once more! Haven’t done one of these in awhile — and for once it’s not coming from that maniacal Autograph Hound Brian Leno. At least not directly. Brian did tip me to a plethora of John Hancocks … Continue reading →

Posted in DMac, Lit | Tagged Anthony Boucher, Arkham House, Autographs, Bouchercon, Brian Garfield, Brian Leno, Christiana Brand, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Edward D. Hoch, Frederic Dannay, Gahan Wilson, Gary Phillips, Isaac Asimov, Jack Kerouac, John Ball, Jon L. Lellenberg, Kent Harrington, Lin Carter, Maxwell Grant, Michelle Slung, Phyllis A. Whitney, Phyllis White, Posse McMillan, Richard Lackritz, Robert Fish, Ron Goulart, Stanley Ellin, Steranko, The Shadow, Walter Gibson |

Rediscovered: Purist Outrage!

Posted on July 25, 2021 by Don

The idea that Brian Leno and Tom Krabacher and I cast wary eyes toward the new James Patterson “Shadow” novel recently drove the noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook into a berserker frenzy. “Why the [sulphurous blasphemy] do you … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Brian Leno, Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Patterson, Joe Gores, Kevin Cook, L. Sprague de Camp, Manchette, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Street & Smith, Tarzan, The Shadow, Tom Krabacher, Walter Gibson |

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 |

Frisco Beat: A Century of Fantômas

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Don

Okay, I don’t know how this one got put on the calendar, other than via the interest and tireless efforts of Peter Maravelis, teamed up with a horde of local Fantômas fans and no less than the French Embassy — but … Continue reading →