For 18 years, from 1931 to 1949, The Shadow, an unrelenting defender of justice, appeared as the title character in 325 novel-length adventures in The Shadow magazine, making it the first and most important of the character or hero pulps. A...

The Shadow is a fictional character created by Walter B. Gibson in 1931 in a semimonthly series of pulp magazines. The first story was titled "The Living Shadow". The character is one of the most famous of the pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s -- made...

Look around. You will find shadows everywhere--indoors and outdoors. Lots of things make shadows--buildings, trees, clouds, and even you! Every object makes its own shadow shape. Have you ever played games with your shadow? It's fun to make shadow pictures with your hand...

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The days of seeking out ticket-scalpers in the shadows, ducking into alleys and dodging police for that elusive Yankees-Red Sox seat are fading fast.New York is poised this week to become the latest state to ease or eliminate decades-old restrictions on scalping.For the first time,...

With his owlish glasses and nasally voice, Mike Vickers isn't Hollywood's version of an international man of mystery.Yet this unassuming ex-Green Beret and former CIA agent engineered the clandestine arming of the Afghan rebels who drove the Soviet Union out of their country nearly a...