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Inventing
sources: I claim that my great-grandfather, Alan Francis Coogan, a former
vaudevillian and bar owner, was an agent of The Shadow and connected him with
the radio station and the pulp publishers Street and Smith. Coogan died of alcoholism in 1938, but I
claim that he was poisoned--as the real-life Harry Charlot was in 1935;
Charlot was a young scriptwriter who is
credited in histories of the radio show with creating the name
"The Shadow.” Because my
great-grandfather gave his life in The Shadow’s service, I am able to call
upon his organization’s aid, which gives me access to various restricted
archives in which I find sources that others have no access to. Dennis Power and I used these sources in a
series of articles on John Carter.
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