MASTER OF MYSTERY
MASTER OF MYSTERY The Rise of the Shadow By Will Murray Odyssey Publications 2021 310 pgs We first met Will Murray at a small one day show somewhere in Massachusetts. The year was 1986. We sure of this because Will dated his signature on his autograph in “The Duendes History of the Shadow Magazine” copy that had been published six earlier in 1980. Our best guess is we’d hooked up via fanzines and correspondences long before and we recall being so thrilled to finally having a copy of this amazing history of the classic pulp hero. In person, Will proved to be as personable as he was in his letters and thus begun our very long friendship. Will was one of our favorite writers at Starlog and was the source of boundless research information years later when we dared attempt to bring the Green Hornet back to comics. He was a big part of our making that happen. So now, after all those years, along comes this new, revised and expanded Shadow book and there was never a doubt we