Walter B. Gibson and The Shadow

If you are interested in the Shadow series of pulps, radio programs, movies, etc, then this is definitely the book for you. It 's a biography of Walter Gibson, and goes into his entire life. The Shadow was a big part of it, of course, and there's a lot of material on that, but Gibson was also a magician, and met many famous magicians of his day, and there's a lot of material on that, also.

The book has lots of photos, along with various footnotes and a bibliography. I think it would have been nice if it had included a complete list of the Shadow pulps and paperbacks, and a listing of the Shadow radio programs, though.

Still, it's a very good book and a must for any Shadow fan.

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