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Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897 – December 6, 1985) was an American writer and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow. Gibson, under the pen-name Maxwell Grant , wrote "more than 300 novel-length" Shadow stories, writing up to "10,000 words a day" to satisfy public demand during the ...
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Orson Welles gave him a smooth baritone voice that oozed over the radio. Movie stars Rod La Rocque and Alec Baldwin personified him on the big screen. Other crime-fighting vigilantes — particularly Batman — cut their capes from the same cloth as he. The Shadow, who first began hypnotizing audiences in 1930, has crept into various corners of America...
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pa., Gibson became enchanted with magic at an early age, putting on shows for his family and getting chance meetings with professional magicians. He published his first article, “A New Rising Card,” which described a trick, at age 18 for the magic magazine the Sphinx. He wrote several more for that publication and b...
In the foreword to Gibson’s biography, his son, Robert, remembered being 6 years old when his father began the Shadow: “The writing schedule demanded almost round-the-clock writing; I can still remember [hearing] the typing as I went to sleep.” In 1932, when Gibson was asked to write 24 Shadow stories, he finished them in 10 months — and then produ...
After the successful run of his pulp novels, the “Wizard of Words” didn’t just fade into the shadows. He continued writing for true-crime magazines and released a number of books on magic, games, and the occult. Gibson co-authored several books with Litka Raymond, his third wife, whom he married in 1949. Litka was an illusionist and the widow of Th...
Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897-December 6, 1985) was an American author and professional magician best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow.
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This is a complete list of books by Walter B. Gibson published during his lifetime and after his death.
Walter B. Gibson has 615 books on Goodreads with 16863 ratings. Walter B. Gibson’s most popular book is The Living Shadow (The Shadow #1).
Walter Brown Gibson (b.1897-d.1985) was an American author and a professional magician best known for his work on The Shadow. Gibson, under the pen-name Maxwell Grant, wrote Shadow stories at an amazing rate to satisfy public demand during the character's golden age in the 1930s and 1940s.
Dec 7, 1985 · Walter B. Gibson, who created ''The Shadow'' of pulp fiction in 1931 and turned out more than 300 novel-length stories on his exploits along with many other books, died early...
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