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Shadow creator Walter Gibson likely wrote most of the Blackstone stories in Super-Magician Comics from 1941 until Gibson's 1946 exit from Street & Smith over a contract dispute.  A magician himself who had a long association with Blackstone, Gibson leaned into his love of all things magic in the title.  Many of Gibson's plots drew[...]

He helped to popularize magic as an entertainment form in the twentieth century, and he was very effective at marketing himself with the help of Shadow creator Walter Gibson among others.  A magician himself, Gibson wrote extensively about magic, including ghost-writing articles for Harry Houdini and Blackstone, and writing comics and a radio show based[...]

Dark Horse Books and Yoe Books present a new 208-page collection of Space Western Comics written by Walter Gibson with art by John Belfi, Stan Campbell, and Lou Morales, collecting comics from the fifties for a new audience in the twenty-twenties. "Welcome to the wild, WILD West! Spurs Jackson and his Space Vigilantes bravely defended the frontier[...]

Shadow creator Walter Gibson wrote nearly 400 comic book scripts over his incredibly prolific career From writing The Shadow for Street & Smith comic books to Blackstone the Magician for Marvel, and even some text stories in Batman for DC Comics, Gibson kept his hand in a bit of everything.  Gibson also wrote a few[...]