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CRASSSH

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FZZZZARTCH

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"We are Eden."

The Sunday Comics: The Shadow "Shiwan Khan's Murderous Master Plan / Margo Lane's Honeymoon!" pages 22 - 25

 

Saturday's random pulp cover: The Phantom Detective "The Booby Trap Murders": August, 1944

 Boy, that bad guy sure looks happy as he shoots down the presumed hero.  This cover by Rudolph Belarki must have leaped off of the newsstand with that bright orange background.  I don't know much (at all) of The Phantom Detective but he lasted as a pulp magazine for a very long time, 1933 - 1953 with 170 issues.  This is the third highest number of issues for a character pulp, after The Shadow, which had 325 issues, and Doc Savage, which had 181.

ON THE AIR: October 24 & October 25, 1939

 

Ep 88_Formula for 654

  Ep 89_Fu Whips Fa Lo Swee

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"Speak, Puppetmaster!  Show yourself!"

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<more sound FX>

All I want for Christmas is some dialogue... 

Merry Christmas

 Remember, mistletoe can be deadly.  Be careful and have a very, Merry Christmas.

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"Crik! Crik! Crik!"

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"Face your death."

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Space, the final frontier.

The Sunday Comics: The Shadow "Shiwan Khan's Murderous Master Plan / The Triangle of Terror / Margo Lane's Honeymoon!" pages 19 - 21

 

Saturday's random pulp cover: Complete Underworld Novelettes "Thumbs Down": Spring, 1932

 This is, apparently, the first issue and it features cover art by, none other than, Tom Lovell.  Yep, the guy who did those incredible interiors illustrations for The Shadow Magazine.  Ain't it a small world...

ON THE AIR: October 21 & October 23, 1939

 

Ep 86_Nyland Smith a Member of Sci Fan

  Ep 87_The Orchid of Life

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Manhattan, 1935

The Shadow: Altered States

 

Let's take a look at Dynamite's 2015 stab at sci-fi with "Altered States".

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"Only The Shadow knows."

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"Bess did indeed receive a message from Harry."

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"They have had their last curtain call."

The Sunday Comics: The Shadow "Shiwan Khan's Murderous Master Plan / The Triangle of Terror" pages 16 - 18

 

Saturday's random pulp cover: Complete Underworld Novelettes "The Woman in the Chair": Summer, 1932

 Awesome cover from Lyman Anderson.  I absolutely love these vignette style images.  If you want to know a little more about Mr. Anderson just click here.

ON THE AIR: October 19 & October 20, 1939

 

Ep 84_A Visit From Florette

  Ep 85_Nyland Smith and Paul Sterling Zombies

 

The missing episodes.  It's too bad that we don't have a recording of episode 138 "The Purple Shadow". 

 Episodes #136-#137
Nayland Smith has successfully thwarted Dr. Fu Manchu's plans for world dictatorship. By a clever ruse, Smith and Petrie determine the headquarters of the Si-Fan, ruled by the nefarious doctor, but Fu Manchu escapes capture by jumping into the Thames River. The police spray the river with bullets and, when no dead body comes to the surface, it is assumed that Fu Manchu has at last been killed. Dr. Petrie and his wife Kâramanèh retire to their home in Cairo where Petrie resumes his work researching tropical diseases.

Episode #138
While continuing his research in Cairo, Dr. Petrie receives a visit from Paul Sterling, a botanist based in France who begs Petrie to fly with him to Paris to investigate a strange strain of sleeping sickness. The disease is known as "The Purple Shadow", as a strange purple stain forms on the victim's forehead just prior to death. Could this deadly illness be the work of the insidious Fu Manchu? 
1939 – 15:00 – Syndicated by Radio Attractions

Episodes #139-#141
Dr. Petrie has developed Formula 654, the remedy for a strange epidemic that has struck parts of Europe. However, the formula has gone missing and, with Petrie afflicted with the disease himself, Nayland Smith has been assigned to locate it. Smith returns from London and learns from Paul Sterling of Fah Lo Suee’s attempt to visit Petrie while in the guise of his wife. Smith sends Sterling and Superintendent Weymouth to Petrie's quarters, where both are overcome by mimosa fumes. When Smith arrives, he discovers Sterling gone. Smith and Weymouth, pursing a clue to the mystery, learn that Smith has died. Traveling to the hospital in a cab, he too is overcome by Mimosa gas and eventually returns to consciousness in a vast underground laboratory, where he also finds Sterling. Suddenly a glass panel opens, revealing Dr. Fu Manchu himself.

 

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"The future is darker for tonight's butchery."

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"Houdini's secrets led to war."

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"Like a serpent in the grass, justice is ever watchful..."

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"There is more blood on your hands than mine."

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"He is a showman after my own heart!"

The Sunday Comics: The Shadow "Shiwan Khan's Murderous Master Plan / The Triangle of Terror" pages 13 - 15

 

Saturday's random pulp cover: All Detective Magazine "The House of Crime": October, 1933

 

Cool cover, if a bit trite.  However, this issue featured future backup scribe for The Shadow Magazine, Theodore A. Tinsley.  It would be another 3 years before the first of his 27 tales would make their way into The Shadow's annals.  That seminal work would be "Partners in Peril", the novel that was basically swiped for The Bat-Man's first published adventure, "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate".

 

ON THE AIR: October 10 & October 11, 1939

 

Ep 77_Assassination of Pierre Delibes

  Ep 78_A Strange Animal Attacks

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"The Shadow Knows!"

The Shadow #5 pages 12 & 13

 

YEEAAGGH!

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"The blood looks so real."

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"Tonight you must choose to fight on the site of right."

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"Margo, you have always been an agent I can count on."

The Sunday Comics: The Shadow "Shiwan Khan's Murderous Master Plan / The Triangle of Terror" pages 10 - 12

 

Saturday's random pulp cover: Thrilling Western "When Outlaws Ride": September, 1945

 Action packed cover painted by an uncredited artist.  That's always a disappointment to me.  Typical yellow background to grab the reader's attention.  I always wondered what it must have been like to walk up to a newsstand back in the day and see a sea of yellow covers, essentially canceling each other out.

ON THE AIR: October 6 & October 8, 1939

 

Ep 75_Murder on Camera

  Ep 76_Episode 132