The Shadow battles The Blur in 1941; Doc and crew dodge dinosaurs in 1933. From “Pulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Art of the Street & Smith Universe,” published by Abrams
“Walter Gibson believed in hard work,” notes Neil McGinness in his new book, Pulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Art of the Street & Smith Universe. Indeed, writing under the pen name Maxwell Grant, Gibson cranked out 300 Shadow novels for pulp magazines in just 18 years; in one 10-month stretch, during the 1930s, he banged out 1,440,000 words on his trusty Smith Corona—a feat that
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