Any Shadow fans?

[Illoman]

Yeah, I don't know if it's because he broke his wrist or what, but you can't read his signature any more. I've got two of his Frankenstein portfolios signed by him and a Swamp Thing with his signature...

[Wicked Lester]

I just picked up the full run of the late 80's DC series The Shadow Strikes for like $30 delivered in nice condition off Feebay. Hope it's a good read.

[Scatter]

I just picked up the full run of the late 80's DC series The Shadow Strikes for like $30 delivered in nice condition off Feebay. Hope it's a good read.

How many issues in a run?? I think I remember that series from my kid-dom.

[Illoman]

I just picked up the full run of the late 80's DC series The Shadow Strikes for like $30 delivered in nice condition off Feebay. Hope it's a good read.

Was that the one Chaykin did?

[Illoman]

Just answered my own question, via wikipedia:

From 1989 to 1992, DC published a new series, The Shadow Strikes, written by Gerard Jones and Eduardo Barreto. This series was set in the 1930s and returned The Shadow to his pulp origins. During its run, it featured The Shadow's first team-up with Doc Savage, another very popular hero of the pulp magazine era. Both characters appeared together in a four-issue story that crossed back and forth between each character's DC comic series. "The Shadow Strikes" series often led The Shadow into encounters with well-known celebrities of the 1930s, such as Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, union organizer John L. Lewis, and Chicago gangsters Frank Nitti and Jake Guzik. In issue #7, The Shadow meets a radio announcer named Grover Mills — a character based on the young Orson Welles — who has been impersonating The Shadow on the radio. The character's name is taken from Grover's Mill, New Jersey, the name of the small town where the Martians land in Welles' famous 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.

[bigbud]

 Here's one of the few cool collectibles to come out of the recent Shadow Movie- a licenced Shadow hat. Really quite nice. Has licence tag and a great label on the inside of hat too.......Buddy

[bigbud]

Due to insurance concerns I was reluctant to show this Shadow item......but hey, the UMA is like family! This is a 1938 Philco Cathedral radio. It was custom built on request by Orson Welles who did the radio voice of the Shadow. He presented it to Walter Gibson, writer of the Shadow novels,  in October of 1938 with the request that Gibson use it to listen to his October 30 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds. Gibson is said to never have had any other radio in his home, and used this radio extesively during his lifetime. Having once spilt a drop of coffee on the radio cabinet, Gibson was so distraught that Lest Dent of Doc Savage fame was hired to fill in for 2 issues of the Shadow!  It now resides in my basement..........Love, Buddy





Not a word of the above is true.....LOL

[Illoman]

Bud, fool that I am I believed you until you said Walter Gibson missed a deadline. No way!!! great story, though. Remember what Norman Rockwell always said: "never let the truth get in the way of a good story".

That Shadow hat is way cooler than that crappy film!!!!

What's the *real* story on that uber-cool radio?

[Wich2]

>Not a word of the above is true.....LOL<

F IS FOR FAKE

[bigbud]

Wich2........been wondering about your avatar.......is that Sting with glasses?  LOL     

Illo.......I put on a display of Lone Ranger collectibles at the local museum......needed something to set a recorder in while it played old radio Lone Ranger programs......nobody got any connection with the Shadow, but I thought it looked cool......specially since the 3 Shadow figures lined up in the cabinet slats so well............................Love, Buddy