How did you get interested in the Shadow?

[B Barnard]

I was wondering how everyone started to be interested in the Shadow? My first experience with the Shadow was probably hearing the shows late at night on the radio. I got my first Shadow novel when I was a kid. I was probably too young to really enjoy it, so I never did read much of it. It was one of the Jove reprints, either Zemba or the Silent Death, I can't remember which. I wish I knew where that book is now.
Then in 1994 my interest peaked again. I loved the movie, bought the vhs tape, the official movie magazine, had a t-shirt, and found the Pyramid reprints of the Living Shadow and the Black Master. I also recieved a set of radio shows on tape. My interest waned once again for another fifteen years, until I found the radio shows on iTunes as a podcast. I downloaded them and started to get back into all things Shadow. I first bought one of the Anthony Tollin's Sanctum reprints and I was hooked.
So how did everyone else get interested in the Shadow?

[Greggie The Dark One]

Well, I'm 24 years old and have only really known of The Shadow for about 3 years. I have been into radio shows since I was a kid (it started with The Green Hornet) and have pretty much been into SUPERHEROES since childhood (Favorites are: BATMAN, GREEN HORNET, THE SHADOW, well every hero type pretty much, right down to JAMES BOND and PHILIP MARLOWE).

But anyway, I was heavy into Batman for a few years and of course learned about the Shadow through Batman... I had been a radio fan & comic book fan and upon learning of the Shadow, I researched the character & FELL IN LOVE.

He was a radio hero, a comic hero & his story was told in 325 novels! Wow, EVERYTHING I COULD WANT.

After spending 3 years with the character , I now consider myself a Shadow expert. I own every available COLLECTED EDITION Comic book (3: Private Files of the Shadow, Hitler's Astrologer, and In the Coils of Leviathan), One original copy of THE LIVING SHADOW, the 1940 serial, the 1994 film and have written FAN FICTION on the character.

Next to Bruce Wayne & Britt Reid, Lamont Cranston is my HERO!

[Melvin Creston Williams]

I started in 1969. My brother found a Bantum paperback in an alley with the cover missing, but the rest intact. Fortunately ,with the cover missing I only knew The Shadow's image from Gibson's prose. I was hooked of course. My interest(obsession?) has never waned. I have all the novels and many radio shows as well as comics and Kaluta art. I have the bust of course designed by Kaluta. I also have a passing acquaintance with Mr. Tollin of Santum Productions. And ,of course, I own a working replica of the Colt .45 1911 A1 similar to what the Shadow carried.
To be honest, I did not like the 1994 movie, it was too close to Dennis Lynd's writings. The Pulp Shadow and radio Shadow are two quite different characters. I much prefer the Pulp stories as written by his creator; Walter B. Gibson. The first Shadow story I ever read was interestingly enough the first; "The Living Shadow".


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