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The Shadow - Sanctum Reprints #150
The Shadow Annual #1: The Crime Crypt & The Green Terror
The Knight of Darkness returns in two pulp novels that foreshadow classic Batman stories.
Concealed within an ancient sarcophagus, The Shadow is smuggled into The Crime Crypt, using the same ruse reprised by Doctor Doom in a 1950 Batman story.
The Shadow battles a mastermind who paralyzes foes with technological fear.
Plus: Can the Dead Talk? - a classic thriller from the Golden Age of Radio!
Concealed within an ancient sarcophagus, The Shadow is smuggled into The Crime Crypt, using the same ruse reprised by Doctor Doom in a 1950 Batman story.
The Shadow battles a mastermind who paralyzes foes with technological fear.
Plus: Can the Dead Talk? - a classic thriller from the Golden Age of Radio!
- GenresPulp
144 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2014
About the author
Maxwell Grant
651 books37 followersMaxwell Grant was a pseudonym often used by Walter B. Gibson to write stories of "The Shadow".
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July 7, 2024
Two average Shadow novels with a somewhat loose connections to later Batman stories. The relationship between Knight of Darkness and the Dark Knight Detective is not necessarily a revelation, but essays by Dennis O'Neill, Walter Murray, Ed Hulse, and Anthony Tollin do a good job of pointing out how comic book writers mined the earlier Shadow mythos for Batman comics. The cross-comparison between The Shadow (1994) and Batman Begins (2005) was also quite entertaining.
"The Crime Crypt" (Walter Gibson). An usual crime spree involving exceptional works of art and the murders of their owners. The Shadow employs a strategy that a Batman villain will later use, perhaps not the most profound connection between the franchises, but it reinforces the idea that comic book writers were enthusiastic readers of the pulps.
"The Green Terror" (Theodore Tinsley). This convoluted story involves a strange device that causes uncontrollable fear, not unlike the fear gas used by Batman's adversary the Scarecrow, who debuted around the same time as this story. The sequences involving the fear weapon are effectively done, but the shear number of bad guys sometimes got confusing.
The collection also includes the script to "Can The Dead Talk?", a 1939 radio adventure of the Shadow.
"The Crime Crypt" (Walter Gibson). An usual crime spree involving exceptional works of art and the murders of their owners. The Shadow employs a strategy that a Batman villain will later use, perhaps not the most profound connection between the franchises, but it reinforces the idea that comic book writers were enthusiastic readers of the pulps.
"The Green Terror" (Theodore Tinsley). This convoluted story involves a strange device that causes uncontrollable fear, not unlike the fear gas used by Batman's adversary the Scarecrow, who debuted around the same time as this story. The sequences involving the fear weapon are effectively done, but the shear number of bad guys sometimes got confusing.
The collection also includes the script to "Can The Dead Talk?", a 1939 radio adventure of the Shadow.
January 16, 2018
Solid pulp fun. Took some issue with Ed Hulse’s article, but enjoyed otherwise.
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