History Articles on The Shadow

• Pulp
  • The Shadow: Mysterious Being of the Night, The Pulp Years by Todd D. Severin and Keith Holt
  • An Interview with Walter B. Gibson about the Pulps
    (Thank you to Greg Daulton for the link!)
  • Hero Pulp Essay: The Shadow - A brief history put together by the folks at M.A.R.D.L.
    (Thank you to Phil Bledsoe for the link!)
• Radio
  • Voices from the Shadows by Anthony Tollin
    From DC's "The Shadow Strikes" # 7: Page 1 | 2 | 3
    (Thank you to OthymianO for the scans!)
  • The Shadow: The History and Mystery of the Radio Program, 1930 - 1954 by Martin Grams, Jr. ( Note: This book is available from Mr. Grams' Website.)
    Read an excerpt here (Note also the Shadow radio ads on left-hand side)
    (Thank you to Martin Grams for the heads-up!)
• Comic
  • The Shadow: Strange Creature in Black, The Comic Book Years by Todd D. Severin
  • The Case of the Chemical Syndicate: How The Shadow was the template for Batman by Robert Greenberger
    (Thank you to Keith Holt for the link!)
• General Articles
  • The Shadow Documentary - the Robert Reed documentary featured on DialBforBurbank.com. Note that this is in 10 parts.
    (Thank you to The Shadow 772 and Greg Daulton for the link!)
  • The Shadow and Copyrights
    • Enemies of the State: The Shadow and Metropolis and Ebay vs the Supreme Court... - An essay from Heroic Times blog on copyright and how the Supreme Court is helping big corporations by taking things out of public domain.
      (Thank you to HT for the link!)
    • Author Fail - Canadian author Jeff Bursey's experience with writing a story about The Shadow, The Spider, and G-8and obtaining copyright permission from Condé Nast.
      (Thank you to Jeff Bursey for the link!)
  • Criminal Odes by John Banville
    A discussion on pulp and crime fiction, and a review of "The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s" (Vintage, 2007) (Thank you to Jeff Bursey for the link!)