How long have you been a fan of The Shadow?

[Melvin Creston Williams]

I would be interested to know this about my fellow "agents". So, who shall begin?

[shannon shirey]

I started getting interested in the shadow when the movie came out in 1994.

[Melvin Creston Williams]

Well, I would hope you don't judge the character by that movie. A good source (if you don't have it already) is "The Duende History of the Shadow Magazine" by Will Murray. It is available through AbeBooks online, as well as "The Night Master" by Robert Sampson. These are good source material and have some good art in them as well. The Shadow Knows.

shannon shirey said:

I started getting interested in the shadow when the movie came out in 1994.

[Melody]

When I was a child I had some cassette tapes of the old radio shows my grandparents purchased. My favorites were the six episodes of the Shadow and this other show called "Sorry, Wrong Number." My grandfather fondly related listening to those same stories with his sisters while sitting in the dark. They lived in an old rooming house in Brooklyn, and every now and then something would creak or a door would slam somewhere, causing them all to jump.
A few years later the movie came out and I was mesmerized by it. I listened to those same Shadow episodes many times but was never able to find others. I didn't even know about the pulps. But that was before the internet! Recently, I was reminded of The Shadow by the hype over the Nolan Batman movies, and was able to find a number of the radio shows on the internet, as well as the pulp novels.

[Melvin Creston Williams]

I would highly recommend "The Night Master" by Robert Sampson, as well as; "The Duende History of the Shadow Magazine" by Will Murray, "The Shadow Scrapbook by Walter B. Gibson and Anthony Tollin. All available through AbeBooks.com online. There are many otr's at e-bay of the old radio shows. The Shadow Knows. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Melody said:

When I was a child I had some cassette tapes of the old radio shows my grandparents purchased. My favorites were the six episodes of the Shadow and this other show called "Sorry, Wrong Number." My grandfather fondly related listening to those same stories with his sisters while sitting in the dark. They lived in an old rooming house in Brooklyn, and every now and then something would creak or a door would slam somewhere, causing them all to jump.
A few years later the movie came out and I was mesmerized by it. I listened to those same Shadow episodes many times but was never able to find others. I didn't even know about the pulps. But that was before the internet! Recently, I was reminded of The Shadow by the hype over the Nolan Batman movies, and was able to find a number of the radio shows on the internet, as well as the pulp novels.

[Marvin W. Reed]

Might say all my life. Dad was a fan of The Shadow pulps, books and radio shows. Just grew up listening to them and reading the stories. In my personal opinion the best time to listen to The Shadow Radio Shows is when there is a thunderstorm to help " set the tone " for a wonderful evening of entertainment.

[Peter G]

I was a kid the first time I heard "The Shadow" mentioned and it was in reference to the radio shows by some old timers, so in junior high, 1979 to be exact, the school book catalog offered a reprint of a Shadow pulp story, i bought it, and became an instant fan, but I still had no idea what he looked like. A year or two later I stumbled on the DC comic books and a new world opened up, I have been collecting the comic books, pulp stories and his art ever since.

[Greenman]

When I was a young child I liked to listed to the radio as I fell asleep. One night I found WRVO, that use to play old time radio programs. Where the pictures were always better in the theater of the mind. Shortly after, family members would buy me various radio shows on cassette.

[B Barnard]

I vaguely remember the radio show which was played late at night once in awhile when I was a kid. I also picked up one of the Jove reprints when they were still in print. But I really did not get into the Shadow until 1994 and the movie. After that I found the Living Shadow and Black Master reprints. I also got a set of tapes of the radio shows. Then my interest went dorment until last fall. When I found the radio shows on iTunes.

[James Trimm]

Since I was a young child. I listened to it on the radio show on WFAA "News Talk 57 AM" in the 1970's. I was into comic books, so I also at that time discovered the 70's DC Comic. Then I started picking up the books at Half Price books.

[Scott]

I like I'm sure many here was intrigued by the random marketing of the product. I first heard the shadow from the original radio programs. In the early seventies. I was forced to go to bed at eight o'clock and was treated to a wonderful education in radio of the fourties when I snuck a radio and hid it under my pillow to keep me company. I grew up with The Whistler, Inner Sanctum, Radio Mystery Theatre, Fibber Magee and Molly, Amos and Andy, and more I can't recall right now. The Shadow was in a large lineup but there was something about the character that stuck out. I would later look him up in the local library and enjoyed the visuals of the pulp era in books I found there. To my delight I also came acrossed the DC comicbook series and collected it's short run. The Shadow soon faded into a wonderful memory after, but I never forgot him. I would occasionally pull out my comicbooks to enjoy him over and over. In 1994 when the movie came out I again enjoyed thinking about the character although I was a little disappointed in the film. It's nice to see a resurgence and maybe we'll see more original product be released to it's fans to enjoy all over again. Scott

[Melvin Creston Williams]

If you haven't seen already, at the shadowsanctum.com you can find out how to obtain some classy reprints of The Shadow and other old Pulp titles(I recommend "The Avenger"). Other Shadow books are available at Amazon and abebooks as well as ebay. All the movies from 1937 to 1994 are out there as well. But, what I am really looking forward to is the new "Shadow" movie by Sam Raimi, not only because he does outstanding work, but because, like the rest of us here, he is a Shadow fan hinself ( in fact, since he was a child!). I am sure that he will give it the care it deserves. You refer to it as 'product', I think that word takes away something special from it, but that's just me.

The Shadow Knows........

Scott said:

I like I'm sure many here was intrigued by the random marketing of the product. I first heard the shadow from the original radio programs. In the early seventies. I was forced to go to bed at eight o'clock and was treated to a wonderful education in radio of the fourties when I snuck a radio and hid it under my pillow to keep me company. I grew up with The Whistler, Inner Sanctum, Radio Mystery Theatre, Fibber Magee and Molly, Amos and Andy, and more I can't recall right now. The Shadow was in a large lineup but there was something about the character that stuck out. I would later look him up in the local library and enjoyed the visuals of the pulp era in books I found there. To my delight I also came acrossed the DC comicbook series and collected it's short run. The Shadow soon faded into a wonderful memory after, but I never forgot him. I would occasionally pull out my comicbooks to enjoy him over and over. In 1994 when the movie came out I again enjoyed thinking about the character although I was a little disappointed in the film. It's nice to see a resurgence and maybe we'll see more original product be released to it's fans to enjoy all over again. Scott

[Hank Harwell]

Short answer: A long time.

Longer answer: I was first exposed to the George Pal Doc Savage movie on TV as a child and fell in love with the two-fisted adventure hero action. Then I discovered the Shadow comics (only sporadically, never a collector), and learned about his history on radio. Eventually, I learned about the magazines, but by then I was totally hooked on pulps in general, but more specifically, the Shadow. I enjoyed the movie (but thought parts were a little too campy for my tastes), and am thrilled that reprints are again available, complete with original illustrations. I'm also looking forward to seeing what Sam Raimi will do with the character.