Author Archive: Retro

A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering Shadow, suspects that the eerie Professor Strang – whose ghostly wax museum contains figures far too lifelike – may be involved in the crimes.

A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island’s oil reserves.

A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather’s gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.

A 15-episode serial in which Buck Grant, the Phantom Rider, helps rancher, Mary Grayson, fight off a band of outlaws out to seize her property

It’s intrepid Nyoka and her friends versus Vultura, Queen of the Desert, on a quest for the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates.

A new radioactive element is found that is a defense against the atomic bomb. Warmongers go to Pendrang as archaeologists, but they are searching in secret for the element. The United Peace Foundation has an agent following the warmongers to Pendrang.

It is 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Don Diego Vega (also known as Zorro). As Crane sends his men or Native Americans to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this twelve-chapter serial.

The invaders come to Earth to create an H-bomb to blast Earth out of orbit so that Mars can take its place.

Evil villain plots to take over the world using an army of invisible soldiers.