Showing posts with label Masks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Masks. Show all posts

Monday, August 5, 2013

Cover Preview: THE SHADOW #17

Some covers need no captions or explanation...
...like this beautiful work by Francesco Francavilla for the alternate cover for #17 of Dynamite's Shadow comic book!
BTW, if you want more The Shadow stuff, have a look at...
The never-reprinted 1994 Alec Baldwin movie adaptation HERE!
1994?
Has it been 19 years already?
Wow!
(PLUS, a never-reprinted Gene Colan-illustrated spoof of The Shadow radio show called "The Shadower", and a comic adaptation of an actual radio show episode HERE!)
The Shadow's never-reprinted Bronze Age adventures with The Batman and The Avenger as well as never-reprinted Frank Robbins-illustrated stories (as well as the first part of the Shadow radio show adaptation) HERE!
Finally, The Shadow's never-reprinted, campy costumed Silver Age adventures HERE!

Sunday, May 19, 2013

THE SHADOW Cover Previews!

Who Knows What Evil...?
The amazing Francesco Francavilla does, as this alternate cover for #15 of Dynamite's Shadow comic book demonstrates!
If that doesn't convince you, maybe the alt cover for #16 will do the trick...
BTW, if you want more The Shadow stuff, have a look at...
The never-reprinted 1994 Alec Baldwin movie adaptation HERE!
(PLUS, a never-reprinted Gene Colan-illustrated spoof of The Shadow radio show called "The Shadower", and a comic adaptation of an actual radio show episode HERE!)
The Shadow's never-reprinted Bronze Age adventures with The Batman and The Avenger as well as never-reprinted Frank Robbins-illustrated stories (as well as the first part of the Shadow radio show adaptation) HERE!
Finally, The Shadow's never-reprinted, campy costumed Silver Age adventures HERE!

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Preview: THE SHADOW #13 Cover by Francesco Francavilla

Who Knows What Evil...?
Francesco Francavilla does, as this cover for #13 of Dynamite's Shadow comic book demonstrates!
BTW, if you want more The Shadow stuff, have a look at...
The never-reprinted 1994 Alec Baldwin movie adaptation HERE!
(PLUS, a never-reprinted Gene Colan spoof of The Shadow radio show called "The Shadower", and a comic adaptation of a radio show episode HERE!)
The Shadow's never-reprinted Bronze Age adventures with The Batman and The Avenger as well as never-reprinted Frank Robbins-illustrated stories (as well as the first part of the Shadow radio show adaptation) HERE!
The Shadow's never-reprinted, campy costumed Silver Age adventures HERE!

Sunday, December 2, 2012

"My Son is The Green Hornet!"

Status quo-changing events are not a new phenomenon in fiction.
Even in the Golden Age of Comics, series and characters received revamps (or even total reboots) if sales weren't meeting expectations.
Sometimes, the revamp extended through a character's other media incarnations as well!

To celebrate the release of the new Dynamite comic series Masks, which teams up the greatest mystery-men of the Golden Age of Comics and Pulps (plus radio and movie serials), RetroBlogs™ will be running some never-reprinted tales of those amazing heroes through the month of December!
First-off is the story that changed the status quo of The Green Hornet!
Much has been written about the 1947 radio show episodes that tied The Hornet and The Lone Ranger together, using Dan Reid, who was both Britt Reid's father, and John (Lone Ranger) Reid's nephew!
The 1940s Harvey Green Hornet comic book series had been loosely-adapting the radio show's scripts into comic stories, but when this storyline (spread over four episodes) ran on the radio show, the comics' creatives had to do some serious juggling to fit two hours of dramatic radio into two eight-page chapters in a single issue!
(And, yes, a Lone Ranger reference is in the comic story, too!)
It's so historically-important that we couldn't confine this tale to a single blog!
You can see the results tomorrow at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™, with the conclusion Tuesday at Hero Histories™.
Plus, we'll be running tales of other heroes presented in Masks including Zorro, The Shadow, Miss Fury, Black Terror, and Green Lama through the RetroBlogs™ line during December.
And don't forget to check out...

Monday, October 1, 2012

Preview: THE SHADOW 8 & 9 Covers by Francesco Francavilla

Who Knows What Evil...?
 Francesco Francavilla does, as this cover for #9 of Dynamite's new Shadow comic book shows!
And, because you may have blinked and missed it, the cover to #8 (which we mentioned in our post about Masks, the mini-series combining all the cape-and-fedora-wearing heroes of the pulps and comics)...

BTW, if you want more The Shadow stuff, have a look at...
The Shadow: the never-reprinted 1994 Alec Baldwin movie adaptation HERE!
(PLUS, a never-reprinted Gene Colan spoof of The Shadow radio show called "The Shadower"!)
The Shadow's never-reprinted Bronze Age adventures with The Batman and The Avenger as well as never-reprinted Frank Robbins-illustrated stories HERE!
The Shadow's never-reprinted, campy costumed Silver Age adventures HERE!