Gangland’s Doom: The Shadow of the Pulps
Back in print for the first time in decades, Frank Eisgruber’s “Gangland’s Doom: The Shadow of the Pulps” has been completely remastered with old errors corrected and new material added. It’s the next volume in our The History of The Shadow series.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:56 am
I had heard of the 1973 edition of this book, so was pleased that Altus has reprinted it, and allowed the author to do some revisions.
I’ve read most of it, and quite enjoyed it. A good, short, introduction to The Shadow.
There are a few nits about this work. I saw several typos and similiar messups. Commas where they weren’t needed, etc. These should have been caught in proofreading. Also, I was disappointed that the spine was black with no lettering on it. Would have expected to see the title, author, publisher on the spine.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Will there be any more volumes in the History of the Shadow series, besides Gangland’s Doom and the Chronology of Shadows?
December 5th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Yes, there’s another one, covering the Belmont Shadows of the 60s being worked on now. Here’s a teaser: we’ve uncovered the lost, unpublished final Belmont Shadow story.
January 12th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
When do you think the third volume will be published?
January 13th, 2010 at 9:02 am
It’s looking like the second half of this year, at this rate. Lots of work left to be done on it.
May 23rd, 2010 at 11:43 pm
I believe Tom Johnson did that work on the Belmont Shadows. I have the original edition, so would look forward to a replacement.
Some things I’d like to see covered (I can’t recall if they were in the original) would be an explanation of the connection between Belmont & Archie, prehaps coverage on the Archie Shadow series, and how Steranko got involved in doing the covers (when he was also doing the covers to the Pyramid reprints of the originals).