Walter B. Gibson

ABC Radio Network presents Strange True Stories of the Supernatural with your narrator, famous author,

lecturer, and expert on strange and weird events, Walter Gibson.

Thank you, Charles Woods.

There are many treacherous reefs off the rocky coast of Maine, but none more dangerous than Dead Man's Reef.

However, this would be the company's only publication as Stoner ended up being sued for $100,000, and despite the huge sales of the book and a print run of over a million copies, the company went bankrupt.

On the third, Stoner then created the comic series Blackstone, Master Magician, on March-April of 1946 for Vital Publications, which was written by Walter Gibson and was inspired by the world-famous magician.

The series only ran for three issues, with Stoner providing the art for all of them.

Stoner would later provide the art for Blackstone, the magician fights crime for EC Comics in the fall of 1947, while also providing covers through souvenir programs for Blackstone himself, who would hand out his performances in the late 1940s.

While Stoner wouldn't move away from newsstands, as many of the white artists were returning from serving in World War II, he would find work doing promotional comics, which were popular for a form of advertising companies used to promote.

A notable one was the story of the Universal Jeep for Wally Overlord promoting their Jeep vehicle, which Stoner did through vital publications.

Stoner also worked with writer Walter Gibson again on his giveaway comics for Wisco 99 service stations and Carnation malted milk, producing such titles as Johnny Starboard and the Undersea Pirates, Blaze Carson, and Jim Solar's Space Sheriff in 1948.

Stoner's fine art

he originated as a narrator on radio a kind of master of ceremonies on the sinister side he did not become a character in terms of a personality with an alternate identity until the pulp magazine which was 1931 only maybe six months or so after the radio show started

yeah and that's what's really interesting about his his origins that being that kind of a front of a better phrase, convoluted from how he emerged into the pubs, was the stories were diverged, and because it's Walter Gibson who would have been the main writer and the shadow, one of the most prolific, and what's great is, particularly if you buy the republished material now, you'll find essays about de Crespo Gibson.

He had phenomenal records when it comes towards, like, typewriting, like, He had, he kept, it must have like the world record or something.

I think it was when it came to typing.

The villain is scaled to the shadow's size and not Doc Savage's concept of a villain.

And the events are localized to greater New York.

uh and i i i wrote doc a little differently like than i would normally do i wrote him first of all it takes place in the first year more or less of both these characters careers so they haven't quite developed so i wrote doc a little bit like through a walter gibson lens where he's exactly who he's supposed to be but he's seen you know um and not quite the grandiose terms he later became, not quite the superhero.

And I found that worked, and I found that was interesting.