The Blue Sphinx/Jibaro Death

by Walter B. Gibson and Maxwell Grant

The Master of Darkness again demonstrates that "crime does not pay" in two pulse-pounding pulp thrillers by Walter B. Gibson. First, after a museum curator is murdered, The Shadow must solve the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934943045
• ISBN13: 9781934943045
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Nostalgia Ventures
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

2 classic Shadow novels in this great new reprint series.

Nostalgia Ventures and Anthony Tollin have teamed up to do a comprehensive reprint of several Street & Smith pulp heroes. At present, they are doing double reprints of The Shadow and Doc Savage. Shortly, they will start new series reprinting The Avenger and The Whisperer. All have complete pulp texts (no edits or removals, like past reprints), tho reset so its easier to read, the original illustrations, reprinted covers (one is used as the cover of the book, but both original pulp covers are shown on the back), and several additional articles and extras. Hopefully, they can succeed to reprinting all these characters in these new editions, they are all excellent. With The Shadow having over 325 pulp novels, only a few reprinted, for the most part they are avoiding those that have been reprinted. They do try to pick two that more or less 'go together' in terms of a common theme. With this book, #20, we have "The Blue Sphinx" (Jan 15, 1935) and "Jibaro Death" (Sept 15, 1936). The common theme of these is dealing with archeaological mysteries and primitive foes. The cover of "Jibaro Death" is the cover of this volume, and the original pulp covers of both are shown on the back. "The Blue Sphinx" has the Shadow dealing with a riddle of a relic found in the Libyan desert. "Jibaro Death" pits The Shadow against south american headhunters in New York. It also shows him using his Henry Arnaud identity. As extras in this issue are: A Postscript by pulp historian Will Murray, explaining the genesis of these two stories.