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Walter B. Gibson

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American writer (1897 to 1985) who, under the house pen name Maxwell Grant, created the pulp magazine character the Shadow for Street and Smith Publications in 1931. The character's brooding, crime-fighting persona became the basis for the long-running Shadow radio drama.

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