"The Shadow Saves The Sacred Sword Of Sanjorjo"

The Shadow had his own comic book as well as the pulp magazine and a radio show.

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"The Mystery Of The Goona Goona Fan" - THE SHADOW

THE SHADOW was a comic book as well as a pulp magazine and a radio show.

Camphor is used to make mothballs. This implies that the roulette tables had been stuck away in a closet, meaning that they had been hidden somehow.

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Son Of A Spider

Marvel Comics' Spider-Man made his first appearance in AMAZING FANTASY #15 in 1963. The character's history is said to go back further than that.

Part of the story involves the Ben Cooper "Spider Man" costume of 1953.

It even says "Spider Man", right across the top of the mask.

 

After Marvel's Spider-Man became established, Ben Cooper switched to selling a costume based on that character. So it's clear that there were dealings of some sort between the two companies.

The Marvel Comics version and the Ben Cooper version share a number of similarities.

 

But a Spider Man with a striped hood goes even further back.


Stan Lee claimed that Spider-Man was inspired by a pulp hero called "The Spider". Here is The Spider as he was ordinarily depicted on the magazine covers, in a costume which makes him look a great deal like his fellow pulp hero The Shadow.

 

 

But we also see a few covers that show him with a more horrible disguise - which evidently was even the way his "Spider" getup was described in these stories.

But nowhere in the pulp magazines do we see The Spider wearing a costume with lines suggesting a web. However, that was something they did in the serials THE SPIDER'S WEB ( 1938 ) and THE SPIDER RETURNS ( 1941 ).

 

 

 

 

 

 

The familiar "Spider-Man" costume of today may well have been at least partly inspired by the costume worn by the serial version of The Spider.

 

 

Finally, another movie which can be seen as related to the Spider-Man of the comics was HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND, which was made in 1960, although it wasn't seen in this country until 1965. I  doubt if the makers of the Marvel comic books had seen it when they were working on their version, but there are still similarities between the two stories, both of which involve a man who gains strange powers after having been bitten by a spider.

 

 

 

Although the "Spider Man" in this story was really just a monster.

 

The Spider:
http://www.swapsale.com/thespider.htm


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The Shadow: Coils Of Leviathan #4

I understand that many fans like Katluta's Shadow comics. But I don't have any of the DC comics that he did. He did some artwork for the "Coils Of Leviathan" comics that were published by Dark Horse comics, I've got those.



Leviathan is some sort of sea monster that is mentioned in the Bible. The Bible verses used in this story are from a later translation, such as the "NIV", rather than what people would actually have had in the depression years that this story is set in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The word translated as "gods" here had been rendered as "angels" in prior translations of the Bible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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