The Swing Shift Shuffle is a radio program of swing, big band, jazz, boogie woogie and other popular music from the 1930's and 40's that airs every Wednesday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. (US Central Time) on WEVL 89.9 FM in Memphis, Tennessee, with a live webcast at wevl.org. In addition to the radio show, this blog is dedicated to all aspects of the Swing Era, including art, automobiles, cartoons, comics, history, movies, music, news, science, technology, and anything else that happened during that time. It also includes announcements about events in the Memphis/Mid-South area related to the Swing Era, such as classic movies, concerts, dances, lectures, etc. If you see something that fits the description, send it to me at tim@wevl.org. If you would like more information about the radio show, just go to the Radio Show FAQ page.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

The Living Ghost, Parts 1 & 2

These two posts on Four Color Shadows are sort of a two-part horror comics mini-series.  While these stories are hardly Freddy Kruger material, they still seem pretty chilling - in terms of just cold-blooded killing - for the late 1940's.  The "Living Ghost" was basically the devil's right hand ghoul, neither living nor dead, whose sole purpose was to go around killing.  Although the brave humans manage to capture him in the first episode, he returns again in the second story, and humanity must call on his equally supernatural and deadly rival to fight him. 

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