Talk:The Shadow (magazine)

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Mike Christie, I know I was a FAC reviewer for this article but I take concern right now with a sentence:

Standard Magazines came out with The Phantom Detective in February 1933, and Popular Publications launched The Spider, also about a crime-fighter, in October 1933. Over the next few years, single-character pulps were tried in other genres, including Westerns (such as Pete Rice Magazine, from Street & Smith), science fiction (Captain Future, from Better Publications), and many more.

The problem here, aside from the duplicate link of "Better Publications", is: Standard Magazines was its name between 1943–55, but Standard Magazines is said to publish Phantom in 33? Is there an error in the source, or something else? Gerald WL 08:01, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I can check the sources tonight or tomorrow, but there may not be an error. I'm pretty sure that the Thrilling group used Better Publications and Standard Publications at the same time -- like some of the other pulp publishers they had multiple companies they used -- I think to put firewalls around any financial disasters. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:08, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

One source that says "Standard Magazines" was the publisher for Phantom Detective is here, but since that's talking about the whole span, I think they may not be trying to be that precise. Michael Cook's Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines also lists the publisher as Standard. However, Leo Margulies biography gives the same dates you do, and I think that's probably more reliable. I've changed it to just call the company Thrilling Group, which was the name it was generally known by, for both references, which removes the duplicate link. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:45, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]