Monday, January 10, 2022

 I've come across a recreation of the The Secret of The Shadow originally broadcast November 21st 1943.

A recreation of The Bride of Death and The Shadow Challenged by Tune In Radio Show, which is pretty cool it's filmed as a live radio broadcast actors walking up to the mics and live sound effects

Also The Rageaholic has posted an audio book version of The Black Master originally published in March 1932.

And an interesting modern take on The Shadow

What Shadow stuff have you run across lately on the internet?


Friday, January 7, 2022

 I've been working on putting together a list of  of The Shadow reprints that radio scripts as a "bonus feature" in the back. This list may not be complete, these are all the ones I could find listed online and the few I own.  

If you know of others I've not included please let me know or if you know which radio script was printed in #108 Vengeance Bay & Death Has Grey Eyes. I haven't been able to find anything that lists an episode date or name.


005 - The Black Falcon & The Salamanders

+ Script for The Island of Ancient Death 3-03-1946

010 - The City of Doom & The Fifth Face

+ Script for The Immortal Murderer 12-10-1944

012 - The Magigals Mystery & Serpents of Siva

+ Script for Death Comes to the Magician 10-04-1942

014 - The Grove of Doom & The Masked Lady

+ Script for Danger in the Dark 10-10-1937

019 - Voodoo Trail & Death's Harlequin

+ Script for The Laughing Corpse 03-10-1940

025 - The Gray Ghost & The White Skulls

+ Script for The Red Room 9-27-1942

031 - The Dak Death & House of Shadows

+ Script for Murder by the Dead 10-17-1937

036 - River of Death & Crime Rides the Sea

+ Script for The Case of the River of Eternal Woe 4-15-1945

039 - Face of Doom & The Crime Ray

+ Script for The Man Who Was Death 2-29-1948

040 - Cards of Death & Crime Clinic

+ Script for The Red Macaw 10-03-1937

042 - Bells of Doom & The Murdering Ghost

+ Script for The Voice of Death 12-26-1937

046 - The House That Vanished & Wizard of Crime

+ Script for The Sword of Dengri-la 4-01-1945

051 - The Living Joss & Judge Lawless

+ Script for Djaruti, Goddess of Death

053 - Garden of Death & The Vampire Murders

+ Script for Vampires Prowl by Night 9-08-1946

059 - The Green Box & The Getaway Ring

+ Script for The Crawling Death 2-28-1954

063 - The Wasp Returns & The Devil's Paymaster

+ Script for The Comic Strip Killer 11-23-1947

081 - Murder Every Hour & The Time Master

+ Script for The Man Who Murdered Time 1-01-1939

082 - The Spy Ring & The White Column

+ Script for Death Rides the Skyway 11-05-1937

083 - Crime Over Boston & Crime Over Miami

        + Script for Halloween in Vermont 10-29-1944

085 - Masters of eath & Voodoo Death

+ Script for The Shadow Challenged 1-19-1941

092 - Murder House & Death in the Crystal

+ Script for Death is Just Around the Corner 1-21-1945

096 - The North Woods Mystery & Death About Town

+ Script for The Secret of The Shadow 11-21-1943

102 - King of the Black Market & Crime Caravan

+ Script for The Mine Hunters 8-07-1938

104 - Double Death & The Robot Master

+ Script for The Case of the Mechanical Monster 1-17-1943

108 - Vengeance Bay & Death Has Grey Eyes

+ Script for a lost Shadow adventure from Radio's Golden Age!

111 - The Radium Murders & The Crystal Skull

+ Script for The Case of the Flaming Skull 3-18-1945

112 - Death Token & Three Stamps of Death

+ Script for The Shadow in Danger 9-09-1945

113 - Legacy of Death & The Devil's Partner

+ Script for The Great Submarine Mystery 2-25-1940

116 - Mox & Crime Country

+ Script for The Stockings Were Hung 12-24-1939

117 - Master of Flame & Town of Hate

+ Script for The Lizard of Fire 12-03-1944

121 - Hidden Death & The Shadow Meets The Mask

+ Script for Murder in the Ball Park 10-08-1939

123- The Voice & Alibi Trail

+ Script for The Ebony Goddess 9-24-1944

132 - Fingers of Death & The Blackest Mail

+ Script for Murder Walks by Night 4-04-1954

141 - Double Z & Death on Ice

+ Script for Death Paints a Picture 6-20-1954

144 - The Crime Crypt & The Green Terror

+ Script for Can the Dead Talk? 3-19-1939

147 - Trail of Vengeance & The Mother Goose Murders

+ Script for The Mother Goose Bandit 3-04-1945

Friday, December 17, 2021

 Seasons Greetings everyone I'm posting a gift to you all early incase people are traveling next week for the holiday they have something to listen to. 

Please enjoy!

Thursday, November 25, 2021

 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Here's a little present to help make the holiday season brighter.

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

 I have found copies of all 13 issues of "Crime Classics" reprints of The Shadow newspaper strip. They contain the first 9 strips (stories/comics?) out of the 14 that were printed. These are the strips that got reprinted in the "Crime Classics" Download them here


1. Mystery of the Sealed Box (June 17 - Aug 10, 1940)

2. The Shadow in His Sanctum (Aug 12 - Sept 21, 1940)

Reprinted as The Mystery of the Sleeping Gas

3. The Shadow vs. Hoang Hu (Sept 23 - Nov 2, 1940)

4. The Shadow on Shark Island (Nov 4, 1940 - Jan 25, 1941)

5. The Shadow vs. the Bund (Jan 27 - April 19, 1941)

6. The Shadow vs. Shiwan Khan (April 21 - July 26, 1941)

7. The Darvin Fortune (July 28 - Oct 11, 1941)

Reprinted as The Shadow vs. the Swindlers

8. The Adele Varne Mystery (Oct 13 - Nov 22, 1941)

Reprinted as Crime Over Long Island

9. The Shadow and Professor Scorpio (Nov 24 - Dec 13, 1941)

Reprinted as Crime at Lake Calada


Friday, October 29, 2021

 I was thinking about the recreations of the The Shadow radio show yesterday. Partly lamenting the fact that there hasn't been any for awhile, and for some reason, thinking about the music cues used.

A one off decided to create a whole new score, some used excerpts from the 1994 film score and others have edited the cues from the original broadcasts. What rather surprised me was the realization that none of the people who have made reconstructions know anyone who is musically inclined enough to recreate the cues. 

I myself am not musically inclined and couldn't play to save my life. But there should be some of us  out there somewhere who are talented enough either with an electric key board or one of those music creating programs that could recreate the cues and underscoring.

So agents of The Shadow that is your new mission, if you so choose. Recreate the music cues from the radio show and let's start a database that people who want to recreate episodes can use. From Camille Saint-SaĆ«ns' Le Rouet d'Omphale ("Omphale's Spinning Wheel") to filler music if the episode runs a bit short. 

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

The Rageaholic has recorded and shared an audio book for the 11th Shadow novel Double Z. It's much better then the ones done by Audible, go and give it a listen.




Also if you haven't already done so he has a another channel from which he post The Shadowcast the only "podcast" devoted to The Shadow. Here's the link to the first post.




Monday, October 25, 2021


I've been going through a lot of vintage magazines on Archive trying to find decent quality images of the back cover ads to replace the microfilmed versions and I found this ad for The Shadow Magazine in a 1933 copy of  Picture Play. Well not this exact image I did clean it up and straighten it. This is the original image.


I've also re-downladed every cover image and am trying to do a better job of straightening, croping and remastering them. If anyone fancies having a go at doing the same with any of the front or back covers let me know and I'll post some up on either on gdrive or mega for you to have a go with.



Cropped Original


My Remastered

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

 I've added 3 more epubs that I've finished working on:

1932-03-01 - The Black Master

1932-04-01 - Mobsmen On the Spot

1932-05-01 - Hands in the Dark

Remember if you spot any errors in punctuation, spelling or anything else let me know so I can fix it. 

Here's the download link again 

Saturday, September 11, 2021

 I've not yet had anyone message me about wanting to double check my work so I am just going to share the epubs I have finished so far,  The Living Shadow & The Silent Seven. I've also done the two short stories that Gibson wrote The Riddle of the Rangoon Ruby & Blackmail Bay.

The majority of errors I found were periods . that should be comas , and comas , that should be periods ., along with a few hyphen - unhyphened words. I've corrected a few of the typeset errors, letters or spaces not being put in etc. I have also left out the pages of ads.  Please let me know what you think. 

I'm also adding pdf's of the original materials incase anyone wants to double check those for reference

Here's the download link

If you have access to scans of the missing issues I listed in my last post and you approve of the work I've done on these please share so that we may all have digital copies of these great magazines.

Thank you

Oh and if you spot anything I missed please tell me! Let me know which book, the chapter or story  and let's say the first 5 words of the paragraph it's in so I can go and get it corrected.