Chronology of Shadows: A Timeline of The Shadow's Exploits

Chronology of Shadows: A Timeline of The Shadow's Exploits by Rick Lai is a great resource for fans and agents of The Shadow.  Author Rick Lai provides us with a dated chronology of The Shadow's adventures in the pulp magazines.  

The book is 119 pages long and has some great information on The Shadow's exploits as well as The Shadow's activities before he became The Shadow.  The book's introduction clearly explains the book's purpose, "This article is an attempt to create a coherent chronology of the published exploits of The Shadow."  While there are references to The Shadow radio show, there is no significant information on them nor does Mr. Lai try to reconcile the activities and adventures of The Shadow on radio and in print.

One of my favorite sections of the book is a highly detailed look at the early years of The Shadow.  Mr. Lai definitely did his research and I found this section very helpful in understanding the activities of The Shadow as well as his world travels and abilities he learned overseas.

The biggest section of the book looks at each Shadow pulp story and gives it a date when the events occurred.  For example, The Living Shadow, the first Shadow story, is noted as having occurred in November of 1929.  The events in Gangdom's Doom, the fifth Shadow story, are dated to have happened in March of 1931. There are some interesting notes in this section as well, but there are not extensive notes on the story plot.  Some stories just have a date listed as when they occurred with no additional notes.

I don't have a hard copy of the book, but I did purchase an eBook copy for my Kindle.  I've enjoyed reading it and I recommend it as a good resource for fans and agents of The Shadow!