What are your favorite Shadow stories?

[Greggie The Dark One]

From the pulps, radio, comicbooks etc.

Mie would have to be:

Death Stalks the Shadow- radio

In the Coils of Leviathan & The Kingdom of the Cobra- comicbooks

The Living Shadow- pulps

I also really like the 1940 movie serial... that's a story in itself

So what are your faves?

[Poet Jim]

I really enjoy issue # 1 # 2 and # 6 of the Dc Shadow of the 1960's (Mike Kaluta) I lost my set in a house fire, but still have fond memories of all the issues. By the way, if anyone has scans from thse issues, I would be grateful for any copies.

Jim

[Tomi]

Pulp:
Hidden Death (writer: Walter Gibson) Reminds me of a certain Arsene Lupin book.

Graphic novel:
Hell's Heat Wave (writers: Michael Wm Kaluta and Joel Goss)

Radio:
The Ghost Wore a Silver Slipper (writer: ?)

[Greggie The Dark One]

I wasn't aware that HELL'S HEAT WAVE was in trade paperback or graphic novel format?????

I can only find it in single issues...

are you sure, or was it merely a typo?

[Kevin Noel Olson]

I think CHARG, MONSTER and GROVE OF DOOM are favorites for me. The RUBY OF KARVAL is my favorite radio show, and the weird one (can't remember) where the villain makes time stop. Also loved the THE SHADOW STRIKES comics, when Shadow faces off with Rasputin.

[Greggie The Dark One]

yeah they put In The Coils of Leviathan in tpb form which was done by same writer & artist... they need to release Hell's Heat Wave as one volume, but they probably won't because Dark Horse is too involved in their other characters.


Bobby said:

Greggie: I think you're right--Hell's Heat Wave is only available in the 3 single-issue format. But of course they do together form a 'graphic novel'--maybe that's what Tomi meant.

[Tom Johnson]

Although the first Shadow I ever read was the 1963 "Return of The Shadow", I think my favorite was "The Living Shadow", which started the series in 1931. Probably because it started me reading the series. My favorite comic book series remains the 1974 Kaluta DC series.
Tom

[Tomi]

Greggie The Dark One said:

I wasn't aware that HELL'S HEAT WAVE was in trade paperback or graphic novel format?????

I can only find it in single issues...

are you sure, or was it merely a typo?

Single issue is a graphic novel.
Some people like to call them "comic books" but Hell's Heat Wave is not comical at all.

[Kevin Noel Olson]

For the radio, I liked RUBY OF KARVAL a lot. There was the episode where the guy stops time-anyone remember what that's called? For movies, I think the SHADOW serial is excellent.

[shadowknowsjo]

that episode is on utube.

Bobby Shade said:

There's the 1/1/39 radio episode, "The Man Who Murdered Time" (by: ?) where a guy who's dying and has lost his marbles invents a time machine that stops time and makes it repeat over and over, in order to kill another guy over and over. (Similar to the 'Groundhog Day' idea.) If this isn't the one, I'd check out the Alfred Bester-written episodes--it sounds like it could be one of his plot-lines.

Kevin Noel Olson said:

For the radio, I liked RUBY OF KARVAL a lot. There was the episode where the guy stops time-anyone remember what that's called? For movies, I think the SHADOW serial is excellent.

[shannon shirey]

the black falcon and the living shadow are my favorites.

[Melvin Creston Williams]

From the pulp magazine; The Living Shadow, The Shadow Laughs,The Death Tower, The Romanoff Jewels, The Red Menace, Gray Fist, The Shadow's Shadow, The Black Master, Crime Insured, and any I haven't read yet.
The Radio Shows; Deathhouse rescue,Silent Avenger, Tomb of Terror, The White Legion, The Society of the Living Dead, The Shadow Challenged, Temple Bells of Nebon,(oh, there's too many).
Movies; The Shadow (1940 serial with Victor Jory).
Comics; Coils of the Leviathon. ......I think that's enough for now. The Shadow Knows

[Bobby Shade]

Pulps:
1. WBG (too many 'favorites' to mention)
2. Dennis Lynds *

Comics/Graphic Novels:
1. 1st DC series: 1-4, 6, 10-12
2. "Hitler's Astrologer" (Marvel) **
3. 3rd DC series, "The Shadow Strikes": 1-4, 8-17, 21-31
4. "Hell's Heat Wave" 1-3 (Dark Horse)
5. the cameo in "The Rocketeer" series by Dave Stevens (various)

* Despite the time-frame of the "Belmonts", I like Lynds' tone and his spin on The Shadow's 'powers'.

** I'd love to see the final pages (the 'real' ending) of "Hitler's Astrologer" which the printer accidentally left off on publication. [See "Secret Shadows" by Will Murray, in Comic Book Marketplace #105, August 2003.]