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.

 

The Shadow #5 page 19

 

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

The Shadow #5 page 18

 

"Houdini's secrets led to war."

The Shadow #5 page 17

 

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

The Shadow #5 page 16

 

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

The Shadow #5 page 15

 

"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

The Shadow #5 page 14

 

"The Shadow Knows!"

The Shadow #5 pages 12 & 13

 

YEEAAGGH!

The Shadow #5 page 11

 

"The blood looks so real."

The Shadow #5 page 10

 

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

The Shadow #5 page 9

 

"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

The Shadow #5 page 8

 

"KI-YA!"

Happy Thanksgiving

 Enjoy family and friends, the beautiful Autumn weather and the feast set before you.  But take a moment to remember why this holiday exists.  Remember why the pilgrims left the only home they knew and struck out for a new world with the promise of freedom.

The Shadow #5 page 7

 

"Your kind never sees me coming as I strike from the darkness."

The Shadow #5 page 6

 

"Stay vigilant."

The Shadow #5 pages 4 & 5

 

"But sacrifices must be made."

The Shadow #5 page 3

 

"We're not so different, you and I."

The Sunday Comics: The Shadow "Shiwan Khan's Murderous Master Plan" pages 7 - 9

 

Saturday's random pulp cover: Walt Coburn's Western Magazine "Trigger-Fever!": November, 1950

  I tried but failed to find out who painted this pretty cool cover.  I'm guessing he's reading the Old Testament... an eye for an eye!
 

ON THE AIR: October 2 & October 5, 1939

 

Ep 71_Beating Drums

  Ep 74_The Silver Heels Explode

 

Radio Archives is a site that gives short synopses of the episodes.  This covers episodes 126 (70:Boating on the Canal) and episodes 128 (72:Deadly Gas) & 129 (73:Man-Eating Fish).  Don't ask me about this odd numbering system that Radio Echoes employs.

Episode #126
While visiting Venice, Kerrigan saw a pale and ethereal woman surrounded by a greenish glow of light. Later, this same woman is observed in the chamber where Kerrigan, Petrie, and Smith have been imprisoned by Fah Lo Suee, the daughter of Fu Manchu. They fear their doom as they ponder their fate at the hands of the criminal mastermind. 

Summary of Episodes #128-#129
Having escaped Fu Manchu's clutches, Smith, Petrie, and Kerrigan enlist the aid of the Venice Police to search the Palazzo Brione and, upon discovering an underground pool, arrive just in time to see Dr. Rudolph Adlon killed by thousands of deadly piranha fish. Continuing their search, Smith begins to suspect that Fu Manchu may have escaped Venice on Brownlow Wilton's yacht. He sends Kerrigan to Paris to investigate a clue and proceeds to track the movements of the yacht. Wilton, the yacht's owner, admits that he's received notes from the Si-Fan.

The Shadow #5 page 2

 

"You both have wicked souls..."

The Shadow #5 page 1

 

"The two of us -- we are struggling against the same enemy."

The Shadow #5

 

And so begins the end of this entry into the 94 year annals of the adventures of The Shadow.

The Shadow #4 page 22

 

 

"And the legendary Shadow."

The Shadow #4 page 21

 

AGH!

The Sunday Comics: The Shadow "Shiwan Khan's Murderous Master Plan" pages 4 - 6

 

Saturday's random pulp cover: Dime Mystery Magazine "Mistress of the Worm-Men": February, 1940

 Another woman hating mad scientist experimenting/torturing a helpless naked lady.  There may be a valid reason why the artist is unknown. 

ON THE AIR: September 25 & September 30, 1939

Ep 67_The Green Death

  Ep 69_Kerrigan Sees A Zombie

 

Radio Archives is a site that gives short synopses of the episodes.  This covers episodes 121(66) through 125(69).  Don't ask me about this odd numbering system that Radio Echoes employs.

Episode #121
After discovering a note intended for Dr. Martin Jasper, a munitions expert, Smith and his team pay a visit to Jasper's home and find Jasper missing, his assistant Dr. Osaki murdered, and hear news that a mysterious woman associated with the Si-Fan may be responsible for Jasper's disappearance.
1939 – 15:00 – Syndicated by Radio Attractions

Episodes #122 - #125
Concerned over his failure to locate Dr. Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie, who have mysteriously disappeared, Kerrigan orders the Chief of the Venice police to double their efforts in the search. Later, while riding on a Venetian canal, Kerrigan sees Dr. Rudolph Adlon in a nearby gondola and is also thrown a rose by a strange woman he recognized as Zombia, a human corpse who now walks among the living. He reports both sightings to the police, who soon accompany him to the palace where he saw the woman - but no evidence of her presence is found. Later, Kerrigan returns to the palace to investigate more closely.

The Shadow #4 page 20

 

"Can you sense it, Sandman?"

The Shadow #4 page 19

 

"Typical of your ilk."

The Shadow #4 page 18

 

"The putrid stench of evil drew me to these rafters."

The Shadow #4 page 17

 

"How does it feel to have the tables turned?"

Thank you, Veterans

 More than ever, as a nation we look at your Service and Sacrifice and know that Freedom rings because of you and those that gave their last full measure.  "Thank you" is a weak but sincere sentiment.

The Shadow #4 page 16

 

"Poison slipped into one's tea is as deadly as an arcane incantation."

The Sunday Comics: The Shadow "Shiwan Khan's Murderous Master Plan" pages 1-3