Straight outta...

The Living Shadow!  Page one, the scene that started it all.

Toth does The Shadow

Would love to have seen the supposed animated version of The Shadow using Alex Toth's designs.  What could have been...

More great Kaluta/Wrightson images

Continuing with my love for this issue of The Shadow are some terrific poses of our hero.  The hand being illuminated with the match is brilliant.  Pure Gibson.  These are the ones that live in my mind's eye as I read the books or just when my mind wanders during the day.

One of my earliest recollections of The Shadow

I got spoiled right off the bat with the Kaluta/Wrightson team-up in issue #3.  I loved that extra oomph that Bernie gave to MWK's great pencils and layouts.  This issue is one I go back to all of the time.  Would love to own the last page of this one.

Those final three panels really captured my imagination and have really set in my mind how The Shadow should look in all comic adaptations.  Can even forgive the scarf...

Some Gianni to start the week

Love this.  This is how I think many of the sequences in the pulps involving The Shadow piecing the clews provided by his agents should be visually presented.  As cool as the blackened room with just the two white hands and the girasol glistening under the blue light is in prose, it doesn't have a lot of drama in visual form.  This is really well done.

A little Kaluta for a Friday

Love this illustration.  What a great homage to the company that brought us these three great heroes.

Finished The Black Master so...

The Shadow's Shadow is up next.  Been a long time since I read this one.  In fact, this...

is the cover of the novelization I read long ago.  Looking forward to getting into this early novel.