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Popular Culture Review 108 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Raymond Stedman pointed out that in the pulp magazine the definite article in The Shadow’s name was always capitalized: “The Shadow” rather than “the Shadow” (154). That convention will be followed here. Gibson recalled that after the first issue’s success, twice as many copies of the second issue were printed. In spite of this, and the fact that summer sales are normally slower, the second issue sold out like the first. The magazine went monthly on its third issue and to twice-a-month in 1932 (Gibson, “My Years” xiii-xvi). Although Gibson wrote most of the Shadow novels, they all were published under the house name “Maxwell Grant,” a common practice in the pulps. Jim Harmon wrote in 1992 that no known recordings o f The Shadow from this period exist {Radio Mystery 151); however, Anthony Tollin includes a recording of a segment in his 1996 work. Only two o f these characters were, like The Shadow, bom on radio: the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet. The others were already successful in other media before mak ing the transition to radio. Works Cited Bentley, Eric Russell. A Century o f Hero Worship. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1944. Blackbeard, Bill. “The Pulps.” Handbook o f American Popular Culture. M. Thomas Inge, ed. Vol. 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1978. Browne, Ray B. “Hero With 2000 Faces.” The Hero in Transition. Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick, eds. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green U Popular P, 1983. Buxton, Frank, and Bill Owen. The Big Broadcast: 1920-1950. New York: Viking, 1972. Czitrom, Daniel J. Media and the American Mind. Chapel Hill: U o f North Carolina P, 1982. Eisgmber, Frank Jr. Gangland s Doom. The Shadow o f the Pulps. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont, 1985. Eliade, Mircea. “Myths and Mythical Thought.” The Universal Myths. Ed. Alexander Eliot. New York: Tmman Talley/Meridian-Penguin, 1990. Eliot, Alexander. The Universal Myths. New York: Tmman Talley/Meridian-Penguin, 1990. Frye, Northrop. Fables o f Identity. Studies in Poetic Mythology. New York: Harcourt, 1963. Gibson, Walter B. The Shadow: Jade Dragon and House o f Ghosts. Crime Club Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1981. — . “My Years with The Shadow.” The Crime Oracle and the Teeth o f the Dragon. Two Adventures o f the Shadow. New York: Dover, 1975. vii-xix. Grant, Maxwell (Walter B. Gibson). The Crime Oracle and the Teeth o f the Dragon. Two Adventures o f the Shadow. 1936,1937. New York: Dover, 1975. — . The Living Shadow. 1931. New York: Pyramid, 1974. — . The Shadow Laughs. 1931. New York: Bantam, 1969.