{"product_id":"walter-b-gibson-and-the-shadow-9780786423613","title":"Walter B. Gibson and The Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thomas J. Shimeld\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Entertainment \u0026amp; Performing Arts - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? . . . The Shadow knows!\" And who knew \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e better than his creator, Walter B. Gibson. Relatively few people have heard of Gibson, but many more are familiar with \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e having heard the program on the Blue Coal Radio Program in the 1930s and read the Street \u0026amp; Smith \u003ci\u003eShadow\u003c\/i\u003e novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Walter B. Gibson's life and career come out from behind \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e in this biography. It covers his youth in Philadelphia, his development as a writer and magician, his wives, including the third, (Litzka, who was a harpist and magician in her own right), his time living in Maine and upstate New York, and his later years and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In addition to being credited with creating \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e (he used the pseudonym Maxwell Grant), Gibson wrote 187 books, contributed 668 articles to periodicals, created 283 stories for \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e wrote 48 separate syndicated feature columns, reported the adventures of \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e and Blackstone the magician in 394 comic books and newspaper strips, and helped develop 147 radio scripts and many other works under numerous pseudonyms. Gibson has invented many widely used magic tricks and traveled with and befriended Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and Joseph Dunninger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47613485449367,"sku":"9780786423613","price":2832.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786423613.webp?v=1775085569","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/walter-b-gibson-and-the-shadow-9780786423613","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}