A History of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comics and Television. This 816 page book documents the entire history of the masked vigilante. The most complete history of the radio series, comic books, cliffhanger serials and television program. From conception sketches of the masks to the only reference guide that has been researched and not copied from previously published books, dismissing all the rumors that have been printed in every reference guide ever made.

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A huge 800 page book documenting the entire history of the radio program, from horror host to crime fighter. This book is highly detailed, documents so much information that it corrects the errors that have appeared in previously published reference guides. From The Shadow unmasking on stage in St. Louis in September 1931 to Stephen Courtleigh's true number of Shadow broadcasts, this book will not overlook anything!

AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2010.
800 pages......
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This 700 page book documents the history of the radio and TV series. Features exclusive interviews with cast and crew, writers and directors, episode guide with plots, details about criminals who filed lawsuits against the radio producer because they were depicted without permission on the program, the 1942 cliffhanger serial, and much more!

700 pages.......
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Radio's hard boiled detective with tongue planted firmly in cheek is profiled in this 250 page book documenting the history of the radio series, with an episode guide with plots, cast, biography on Howard Duff and Lurene Tuttle, a script that was never used on the original series, and much more!

250 pages........
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Massive 816 page book documenting the history of the original TV series, with exclusive interviews with cast and crew, writers and directors, and an episode guide that critics are raving as the most detailed of its kind (with plots, dates of filming, production cost breakdown, cast lists, production credits, original story origins), comic books, and much more! This book was the recent winner of the 2009 Rondo Award for "Best Book of the Year"!

816 pages........
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Longing only for action, adventure and excitement wherever it would lead them, three men fought through vampire-infested jungles, ghost towns of wind-swept Nevada, and solved mysteries involving werewolves, defeated mad scientists hell-bent on world domination, fought gruesome reptiles and modern-day pirates seeking treasure in every shape and form. Jack, Packard, Doc Long and Reggie York were those three musketeers and for more than a decade I LOVE A MYSTERY ruled the radio airwaves.

Finally after all these decades, the complete production history and episode guide is available under one cover, officially authorized through the estate of Carlton E. Morse. The book's contents include:

A complete history of the radio program, including copies of Morse's correspondence, memories from cast and crew, biographical material about Carlton E. Morse, and trivia about the various serials dramatized.

A complete episode guide for each and every I LOVE A MYSTERY broadcast starting from January of 1939 with an episode-by-episode plot description and cast list!

Documentary about Morse's early mystery and police serials including THE CROSS-EYED PARROT, DEAD MEN PROWL, DRAGON IN THE SUN, PROWL BY NIGHT, KILLED IN ACTION, KILLER AT THE WHEEL, THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN POST, THE GAME CALLED MURDER, CAPTAIN POST: CRIME SPECIALIST, THE WITCH OF ENDOR, BARBARY COAST NIGHTS, CHINATOWN SQUAD, TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY, THE CITY OF THE DEAD, and even a complete episode guide for each serial including episode numbers, titles, air dates, cast lists, plot descriptions and various bits of trivia.

The same treatment is given for I LOVE ADVENTURE and ADVENTURES BY MORSE.

A complete reprint of the January 1939 contract between Carlton E. Morse and NBC and Standard Brands (the sponsor), and later revision and amendments. Even a sneak peak at the contract negotiations!

Learn why the program changed formats in both time slots and length of broadcasts, why sponsors dropped sponsorship, why Michael Raffetto and Barton Yarborough left the series in 1944, and how it came to be reprised in 1949 for Mutual.

Learn where and how Morse came up with the ideas for his serials, and the fact that someone else wrote at least ten of the I LOVE A MYSTERY serials and was quietly paid by Morse for their contribution.

Read the correspondence between Buddy Twiss (the director), Carlton E. Morse and Peter Lorre's agent when Lorre felt his name and character was being infringed upon on the program!

Learn about harry Leopold, the 29-year-old Denver gunman who asked the warden for a short postponement to Colorado's lethal gas chamber so he could listen to the concluding chapter of his favorite radio program, I LOVE A MYSTERY.

Complete documentation of the ILAM novels, comic strips (reprinted in the book courtesy of the artist), and a complete documentation and production of the I LOVE A MYSTERY movies with a reprint of a summary proposed but never made into a full-length motion picture.

Features a reprint of "Treasure Hunt," an unused proposed outline for a ten-chapter ILAM serial that Morse never got around to writing for the series.

Reprints of USO material Morse wrote for Barton Yarborough based on the character of Doc Long.

Complete documentation and episode guides for many of Morse's early serials including HOUSE OF MYTHS, RCA SPLIT-SECOND TALES, PIGSKIN ROMANCES, CHINATOWN TALES, THE UPPER ROOM and much, much more.

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This 500 page book (yes, it's thick!) documents the entire history of the popular TV series AND radio series. Includes a complete broadcast log of each and very episode with plots, cast list (who played who, included unbilled actors), broadcast dates, trivia and memories from actors, writers and directors, etc. Includes various chapters bout other Have gun related material such as appendixes, HGWT collectables, etc. .......$29.95 plus $4.50 for shipping

This 480 page book (yes, it's thick!) documents the entire history of the popular radio and TV series, The Cavalcade of America, which aired from 1935 to 1957. Includes a complete broadcast log of each and every episode with casts (who played who), production credits, plot descriptions, airdates, etc. Includes a lengthy history of the program, origin to demise, trivia and memories from actors, writers and directors. Includes a chapter documenting school books published during the late thirties using the Cavalcade name. Authorized publication with cooperation through DuPont. Now that's comprehensive! ....... $29.95 plus $4.50 for shipping

This 265 page book documents the entire history of the popular radio series, "The Adventures of Ellery Queen," which aired from 1939 to 1948. Includes a complete broadcast log of each and every episode with cast list, sponsors, airdates, announcers, musicians, production credits, plot descriptions, and more. Includes a lengthy history of the program, trivia and memories from those involved. (Foreward written by Larry Dobkin, who played EQ for a time), and other radio incarnations. ....... $29.95 plus $4.50 for shipping

This 660 page book (yes, it's thick!) documents the entire history of the popular TV series, both original and remake. Includes a complete broadcast log of each and every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, with plots, cast list (who played who, included unbilled actors), broadcast dates, trivia and memories from actors, writers and directors, all of Hitchcock's opening and closing narrations (including alternative narratives filmed but never broadcast), and does the same for the remake series. Includes various chapters written by Hitchcock scholars about other Hitchcock-produced movies and TV series, Suspicion, Psycho, Dark Intruder, Tactic, etc. Chapters about spoofs, spin-offs, comic books, a complete list of all anthology books, etc. Literally EVERYTHING you'd ever want to know about the Hitchcock series. Foreward by Patricia Hitchcock! Authorized through Universal Studios!....... $29.95 plus $4.50 for shipping

This this 280 page book documents the entire history of the spooky radio program, best remembered for its opening signature of a creaking door. Vampire bats, werewolves, man-eating plants and murderers on the loose, each week guests Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., Peter Lorre, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles and many others starred in creepy dramas.
This book features an interesting history of the program, including ratings statistics, fan mail, unpublished interview with Raymond Edward Johnson (the host), mystery magazine, a complete list of the Simon & Schuster mystery novels, episode guides for both the radio and television series (with plots), a chapter about the Inner Sanctum movies, and much, much more!....... $29.95 plus $4.50 for shipping

For those unaware, Invitation to Learning is regarded as the longest-running intellectual panel program (1940 to 1964) and featured a variety of guests: Norman Corwin, John Carradine, Lillian Gish, Clifton Fadiman, John Houseman, John Houston, Eva le Gallienne, and many others in discussions about various stage plays and works of literature. Offers a wonderful documentary with recollections by members of the cast and producers, and a complete episodes guide. Unlike any of Mr. Grams' other books, this is the only one featuring a limited printing (500 quantity) and specially numbered on the title page. Sold on first come, first serve basis........ $15.00 plus $3.50 for shipping

Information Please, the popular radio quiz program that played experts for fall guys, was capital, dependable, adult radio fun for more than a decade (1938 - 1952). The fast-cracking experts - John Kieran, omniscient sports columnist for the New York Times; Franklin Pierce Adams, New York Post columnist; Oscar Levant, composer, pianist, gag-stacked Broadwayfarer - were acknowledged by listeners as the most knowing of know-it-alls. Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman was famous for beating the experts to the pun while he picked the questions submitted each week by listeners. Information Please spawned a short-lived series of film shorts (1940 - 1943), a summer-run television program (1952), at least two card games, and the long-running Information Please Almanac.

• Documentary on the making of the broadcasts, and background production.
• Sponsor and Cast contracts are reprinted.
• Day-by-day information about the 1945 Information Please European Tour.
• Chapter documenting the history of the 18 RKO Information Please Shorts (1939-1942).
• Chapter documenting the short-lived 1952 television series.
• Chapter documenting the radio program's involvement with the Information Please Almanac.
• A complete episode guide listing each and every radio broadcast, television broadcast and movie short.

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First time in print! Thanks to material collected from Charles Stumpf and other Gildy collectors, this is a assemblage of letters, articles and photos on the radio series, The Great Gildesleeve. What makes this scrapbook special is:

• Letters from both Hal Peary and Willard Waterman, discussing the Gildy series and the Fibber McGee series
• Photos and articles not used in The Great Gildersleeve by Charles Stumpf and Ben Ohmart
• Written interview with Willard Waterman
• Introduction by Page Peary, Hal's son
• And more!

This is a wonderful amount of material, with a beautiful, original color cover. This scrapbook will not be sold in stores - it was created as a companion piece to the official biography. Enjoy!

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"Michael J. Hayde significantly broadens our empathy for The Man of Steel through his profound revelations surrounding an imposing figure based on popular myth. In a meticulously researched discourse, he supplies the gaps about a character that became a mid 20th century hero to the nation's boys and girls. Hayde probes the backgrounds of the real-life individuals behind-the-scenes and before the microphones and cameras that intensified that aura. In breezy, comprehensive style, he focuses on the radio and TV manifestations while interweaving timely inferences from the newspaper strip, comics, books, film and other formats plus a prosperous merchandising trade. Lovers of the genre of juvenile adventures are rewarded by the author's efforts to expose how one man wearing a cape and bearing incredible strength could pervade an impressionable younger generation and a society that pursued his exploits intensely."
- Jim Cox, author of Radio Crime Fighters

Includes episode logs for radio and television, complete storylines for two unproduced TV episodes, and dozens of "deleted scenes" taken right from the scripts! Over 500 pages of intense research.

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The first complete book on the great radio actor Walter Tetley is coming in December of 2003. It will contain RARE UNSEEN photos and never-before-known radio credits and information. NO old-time radio fan will be able to turn down this book. It will be a one of a kind.

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This is a brand NEW publication from Charles Stumpf (author of the Fibber McGee & Molly biography, Heavenly Days) and Ben Ohmart, tracing Fibber McGee's (Jim Jordan) early years, to his final days. Contains a 7 page biography of Fibber McGee and Molly and Jim Jordan, plus over 100 reproductions of original newspaper and magazine clippings (full articles, pictures, news items) and photos. Very RARE stuff you'll have trouble finding Any where else! 100 pages, size 8.5x11.

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The Baby Snooks Scripts! The first time in print, these old time radio scripts by Philip Rapp are taken from otr's golden age shows: Maxwell House Coffee Time, Good News, and more. These are not transcriptions, but the original scripts, sometimes vastly different from broadcast-draft scripts, since Rapp would often revise a script three times before it aired.

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The first anthology of NEW fiction based on the beloved OTR characters and shows we know and love.

1. Our Miss Brooks - "One Principal Too Many, One Principal Too Meanie" by Clair Schulz
2. Tom Mix - "Tom Mix And The Mystery Of The Bodiless Horseman" by Jim Harmon
3. Candy Matson YUkon 2-8209 - "The Japanese Sandman" by Jack French
4. The Clyde Beatty Show - "Perils of the Tiger Barn" by Roger Smith
5. The Green Lama - "The Case Of The Bashful Spider" by Bob Martin
6. Sgt. Preston of the Yukon - "A Call From the Storm" by Jim Nixon
7. Quiet Please - "The Cradle Of Peace" by Martin Grams Jr.
8. The Halls of Ivy - "A Matter of Ethics" by Carol Tiffany
9. Captain Midnight - "The Vanishing Ruby" by Stephen A. Kallis Jr.
10. The Bickersons - "You've Got Me, John" by Ben Ohmart
11. Ma Perkins - "The Letter From John" by John Leasure
12. The Black Museum - "The Ticket Stub" by Michael Leannah
13. Honest Harold - "Attack Of The Crawling Things From Outer Space" by Justin Felix
14. Dimension X - "Willoughby Goes and Gets It" by Joe Bevilacqua & Robert J. Cirasa
15. Lum & Abner - "A Pine Ridge Christmas Carol" by Donnie Pitchford
16. Frontier Gentleman - "One Card Draw" by Michael Giorgio
17. Pat Novak, For Hire - "A Poole of Blood" by Stephen Jansen
18. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - "The Paddy Rose Matter" by Patrick W. Picciarelli
19. Rogue's Gallery - "The Case of the Missing Bandleader" by Bryan Powell
20. Inner Sanctum - "Concerto in Death Major" by Christopher Conlon

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