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June 9, 2023
2 new products and 5 featured products from Radio Archives this week!
All new and featured products are discounted the first week.
Featured: previously released
The Search for Robert Regent
Volume 2
Tom Collins played the lead role of American-born Frank Chandler, who had learned occult secrets from a yogi in India. Known as Chandu, he possessed several supernatural skills, including astral projection, teleportation and the ability to create illusions. Chandu's goal was to "go forth with his youth and strength to conquer the evil that threatens mankind”. "Time and space are only an illusion” to the American called Chandler. Endowed with strange gifts, in the first episode he teleported himself to his sister's Beverly Hills home.
Launched in 1931 on KHJ in Los Angeles, the series was soon heard throughout the West Coast. It was then heard, starting in February 1932, over WOR in the East. Nationally, it aired over Mutual starting October 8, 1932.
Chandu the Magician was revived on the Mutual-Don Lee Network on June 28, 1948 as a 15-minute weekday program. Radio Archives has restored all 154 fifteen minute episodes of this exciting radio serial.
Starring Tom Collins as Chandu and Luis van Rooten as the villainous Roxor, plotting world domination. Chandu’s sister, Dorothy Regent, was portrayed by Irene Tedrow. Cyril Armbrister directed the scripts by Vera Oldham which took Chandu to far-flung locales, both real and mythical. Romantic interludes for Chandu were introduced with Egyptian Princess Nadji played by Veola Vonn. Also appearing in the cast were Norman Field, Lee Millar, and Joy Terry. Created by Harry A. Earnshaw and Raymond R. Morgan with Howard Culver as the announcer and music by organist Juan Rolando (Korla Pandit), the series continued until January 28, 1949 when it changed to a 30-minute format, each with a self-contained storyline. The oriental-styled musical score via an eerie organ and crashing symbols created a highly effective out-of-the world atmosphere.
White King Soap was the sponsor for all the episodes in this serial.
In 1932 Chandu the Magician was produced as a film, with Edmund Lowe as Chandu and Bela Lugosi as Roxor. In The Return of Chandu (1934) Lugosi portrayed Chandu, and in Chandu on the Magic Island (1935) Bela Lugosi once again played Chandu.
Chandu the Magician, Volume 2 The Search for Robert Regent has been expertly restored for Sparkling Audio Quality by Radio Archives and features a beautiful cover by the great artist Virgil Finlay.
8 hours - MP3 regular price $15.99
Featured: previously released
Volume 39
Radio Preservation has always been at the core of Radio Archives. This exciting series is derived from our massive collection of thirty thousand radio shows from 16" transcription discs.
This 20 hour collection includes shows from the classic days of Radio. You'll find rare and obscure as well as mainstream radio shows from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in the Radio Archives Treasures sets.
These shows have all been restored with state-of-the-art CEDAR technology - the audio processing system used by major recording companies to restore older recordings. We expect the shows to be the best sounding copies available anywhere. Radio Archives Treasures are restored to sparkling digital quality.
Volume 39 includes shows from these series.
The Eddie Cantor Pabst Blue Ribbon Show, Grand Marquee, Heritage, Hollywood Premier, Frank Watanabe and the Honorable Archie, The Hoosier Hot Shots Show, Melody Round-Up, Horatio Hornblower, Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players, I Want a Divorce, Inspector Thorne, It's a Crime Mr Collins, It's Up to Youth, The Jack Paar Program, The Jack Webb Show, The Gateway to Hollywood, The Harry Babbitt Show, Expectant Father, Heart's Desire, Hit That Ball, Hail the Champ, The Jack Kirkwood Show, Hawthorne's Adventures, I Fly Anything, I Was a Convict, and The Lux Radio Theatre.
Featured: previously released
The Sinister Hand of Satan
by G. Wayman Jones
Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
Living dead men walk in this exciting, sensational tale of the Phantom Detective’s thrilling campaign against the fiendish perpetrator of a ghastly series of gruesome crimes. Confronted by a veritable fiend — a criminal with all the cunning and cruelty of Satan himself — the Phantom Detective carries on — valiantly, grimly, fearlessly. For in his chosen profession as Nemesis of the underworld, there is no retreat. Come what may, the Phantom wages his lone wolf war against the enemies of society — putting all his vast mental and physical resources into the bitter, never-ending struggle. Thrill to his astonishing deductions and daredevil exploits as the Phantom Detective stands face to face with one of the most nefarious criminals who ever threatened mankind with horrors unspeakable!
The Phantom Detective debuted in February 1933, a little less than two years after The Shadow magazine debuted. Ned Pines, owner of Thrilling Publications, saw an opportunity to capitalize on and perhaps capture a bit of Street & Smith’s triumph for himself. The second character to lead his own magazine, The Phantom Detective hit the stands, causing Street & Smith to cry foul. Threatening lawsuit, The Shadow’s publisher maintained that Pines essentially copied The Shadow and made a few minor changes. Before it could develop into full blown legal action, though, other magazines hit the stands featuring titles and characters with names like Secret Agent "X" and The Spider, among others. Hero Pulps were now a thing all their own and in a way, that is thanks to Ned Pines and The Phantom Detective for taking that risk initially.
‘The Sinister Hand of Satan’ was originally published in the October 1933 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
5 hours - MP3 regular price $9.99
Featured: previously released
Slaves of the Murder Syndicate
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
Never before had a shrewd criminal leader so successfully defied the Law — and the Spider’s sure vengeance! A powerful Eastern murder syndicate, employing two deadly weapons, held America for ransom, spreading pain and terror and red destruction... Never had the Spider’s struggle against the Underworld seemed so futile, for the name of Richard Wentworth was disgraced, his fortune was forfeit, and his beloved had betrayed him into the hands of the police — and certain death!
Richard Wentworth saw himself as a man on a holy mission, a self-appointed messiah with a martyr complex. A Christ covered in cobwebs:
He was the champion of oppressed humanity, its shield and protector against the murderous outbreaks of the Underworld; wherever crime struck terribly, that way he hastened, taking up the challenge. The police had offered rewards totaling thousands of dollars for his capture “dead or alive.” And the Underworld hated him, and plotted his destruction with a fierceness bred of abject terror.
But the Spider was indifferent alike to proscription by the Underworld and dogged persecution by police. Evading their bullets and traps, he continued to fight his thankless battle as humanity’s paladin....
And the Spider seemed to rejoice in being outnumbered by impossible odds. Captured by a modern-day buccaneer in one epic, Wentworth shrugged off the mood of black despair which often came over him when defeat seemed imminent:
One man against more than a hundred pirates, of course, a hundred killers. The Spider knew that, but it did not check the wild impulse to laughter that squeezed his lungs. It was no wonder that men call the Spider mad!
Nick Santa Maria reads this exciting suspense story of murder, mayhem and mystery that perfectly evokes 1936 Manhattan. Slaves of the Murder Syndicate originally published in The Spider magazine, February, 1936.
Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
Dan Fowler: G-Man! With a jaw like iron, flinty eyes that unflinchingly cut to the hardest criminal's quaking heart, Dan Fowler gave no quarter and asked for none. Son of a sherrif killed in action, ex-lawyer from the Middle West, Dan Fowler joined the F.B.I. as an ace operative for the Department of Justice. He was one of the valiant army of G-Men who battled the underworld and fought the strangle-hold of crime from the throat of humanity. In October of 1935, a new magazine appeared on newsstands: G-Men, featuring the adventures of Dan Fowler. The magazine changed its name to G-Men Detective in early 1940, but the stories continued the blood-bathed saga of the F.B.I.'s finest, Dan Fowler. After an amazing 112 Dan Fowler novels, the magazine closed with the Winter 1953 issue. G-Men returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
Thrills, mystery and action! Popular Detective magazine really lived up to its name. It was one of the longest running detective pulps and contained some of the best of detective fiction around. November 1934 saw the inaugural issue, coming from Better Publications, the publisher of all those Thrilling pulps... Thrilling Detective, Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Western, Thrilling Adventures, Thrilling Wonder Stories and many others without the word "Thrilling" in the title, as well. The Black Bat, Captain Future, The Green Ghost, the Phantom Detective... all these were from Better Publications. Popular Detective was offered monthly until 1938, then bi-monthly. And within those 128 pages, could be found authors like C.K.M. Scanlon, Frederick C. Painton, L. Ron Hubbard, Johnston McCulley, Leslie Charteris, and many others of top-notch talent. The magazine finally folder in the fall of 1953, after an amazing 133 issues of quality detective fiction. Popular Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Featured: previously released
Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.
Another epic exploit of America’s best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men! Richard Wentworth — the dread Spider, nemesis of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that grim no-man’s land between Law and lawless — returns in vintage pulp tales of the Spider, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.
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Comments From Our Customers!
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I've never listened to Let George Do It before, but with Bob Bailey as the main character, I couldn't resist. Excellent audio quality! What a great job of restoration.
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This is the first time I heard of this show, Let George Do It. I bought it out of curiosity as I was brought up in the radio era i.e. BBC, and I still listen to radio broadcasts here in the UK. I was very impressed with the production of this show and the quality of the recording. I played the first episode as soon as I downloaded it and I was hooked.
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