The Shadow Double #9
46-76488
Lingo and Partners in Peril
Foreword Jerry Robinson
- 144 pages
- 7x10
- George Rozen Cover Art
- Reset type edition
- THE SHADOW MAGAZINE 04/01/35
- Lingo * Walter B. Gibson
- THE SHADOW MAGAZINE 11/01/36
- Partners In Peril * Theodore Tinsley
- THE WHISPERER 07/37
- The Grim Joker * Theodore Tinsley
THE SHADOW Volume 9:
"Lingo" & "Partners of Peril"
"Foreshadowing The Batman" Special The Knight of Darkness returns in two historic novels that gave birth to Batman. First, a powerful new underworld kingpin crosses swords with The Shadow in Lingo, one of Walter Gibson's all-time masterpieces which introduces The Shadow's customized boomerang which inspired the Batarang. Then, Batman co-creator Bill Finger acknowledged that the first Batman "script was a takeoff on a Shadow story." It certainly was, and we found it! Theodore Tinsley's startlingly bat-haunted Shadow tale is reprinted for the first time ever. In Partners of Peril, Lamont Cranston investigates chemical syndicate murders in the crime thriller that served as the model for Batman's debut adventure in Detective Comics #27. This extra-length volume also reprints Tinsley's The Grim Joker, a 1936 tale featuring a clown-faced crime boss called The Joker. Popular culture historian Will Murray documents the Shadowy origins of Batman, while series editor Anthony Tollin chronicles how Partners of Peril was adapted as the first Batman story. This classic pulp collection also features George Rozen's arresting pulp covers, and all the original interior art by acclaimed illustrator Tom Lovell including a lost double-page Partners of Peril spread.
(Sanctum Productions)
SC, 7x10. 144 pp., B&W $12.95
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