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One for Jordan-- the redoinkulously amazing cover of "The Shadow," July, 1941 (and an archive for the curious) (lemmy.nz)
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So this was actually a pulp magazine as I understand it, which ran concurrent with The Shadow comics, but each one of those was like a monthly novella, so to speak. In other words, few pictures, and mainly a little book. In magazine form!

Anyway, there's a boatload to say about The Shadow, originally created as a narration device for radio as I understand it, but in terms of superhero stuff? Basically a godfather of the bubbling cauldron of creativity, from which sprung a landslide of famous DC badasses. (correct me if I'm wrong, but Marvel's (mainly Stan Lee's) creation process started a couple decades later?)

Bloody hell... these covers are absolutely STUPENDOUS: (total index right here)
https://antifandom.com/thelivingshadow/wiki/Shadow_Magazine/Covers

Couple examples:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thelivingshadow/images/c/c4/Shadow_Magazine_Vol_1_73.jpg


https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thelivingshadow/images/e/eb/Shadow_Magazine_Vol_1_173.jpg


https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thelivingshadow/images/a/ad/Shadow_Magazine_Vol_1_220.jpg

Oof, this silly-ass post brought to you by the makers of ~~Ovaltine~~!
Or, uh... Johnny at EGN?

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Looks like Conan O'Brien lol

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