History of The Shadow

Today we give you the History of the Shadow, one of the greatest pulp comic characters of all time!

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[BrianCooperpiece]

My Dad, rest his soul, would always respond lovingly to some of my craziest questions with "only the shadow knows!"
It was awesome when that movie came out and another thing we bonded over. Awesome times and a great character!

[zvonimirtomac]

You have no idea how happy this makes me. The Shadow is one of the all-time greats and definitely deserves more attention

[warhorse]

in the original shadow radio plays, the actor actually got in costume..he said it helped him get into the character. my grandmother made the costume for him. she was known for making wrestling costumes back when wrestling was DEEP underground and made basically any sort of costume you wanted.

[awsomerebel]

The Shadow is such an underrated pulp hero! And the fact that he has been around so long and gone up against so many enemies over the years makes you wonder how he would fare if he’d stayed in DC and become a more central part of its mythology.

[murphyrutledge]

I’m 22 and found out about the Shadow from the old radio shows. My dad loved old time audio dramas and had an app on his phone that played them. I was stoked when I found out that there was a movie out before my time too.

[ChristianHansard]

MY dad knew of the Shadow and we went and saw the movie in 94, I really enjoy that film and I thought it looked and sounded great. I've recently finally tried to read some of the comics including the 70s DC run and I just finished Batman and the Shadow. Long wait I know but its fun to rediscover it again. I loved Baldwin's voice in Shadow mode.

[tonymata]

You know what… I’m going to say this, and I don’t care what anyone says.
Sam Raimi should do a new adaptation of The Shadow in Black and White, he’s a die hard fan of the character and guess what? His original character Darkman is inspired by The Shadow and Batman, and he wanted to adapt this character for years but studios weren’t interested.
I honestly hope it happens one day because he does have a great eye for visuals and he has a signature style of filmmaking, I’m aware a lot of fans hated Multiverse of Madness but I really loved it because of his movies (yes including his horror movies).

[XdarzethX]

In the batman tv series they had Grey Ghost who was a homage to the pulp fiction characters and batman even stated grey ghost was one of his heroes and inspirations. I thought this was cool!

[themeanhornet]

Fun Fact on radio shows- if it wasn’t for drunk actors on the Superman radio show, we wouldn’t have Kryptonite in the books.

[willisgibson]

Walter B Gibson was my Grandfather (1897-1985) he wrote the Shadow in (1931) and he was the President of M.U.M. = Magic-Unity-Might, he was also a Master Magician 🕶 what evil lurks deep in the hearts of men ⛈ My father's name was Rober Allen Gibson (1990) R.I.P.

[garydomogalla]

You left out something great from the pulp series. The Shadow had a wide network of capable and loyal agents. These were some very hardcore people that would do anything that he asked of them. That would almost qualify as a super power.

[willpower]

Having been a retro hero fan, I knew of the Shadow along with many others, like the Green Hornet.

[wehaveveactuallymoved]

I actually know this character for two years now thanks to Darkwing Duck. I love his style

[absupinhere]

I remember talking to a 93 year old man a few years back about comics. He asked what I liked. I told him Batman and Superman because I thought he’d know who they were. He laughed at me and said, “those comics are for kids. The Shadow is much better”.

[dravenvandross]

The shadow is a fantastic character from the Golden age of comics just like The Black Bat and The Spider definitely I would love to see these characters shine again on the big screen specially my favorite The Shadow .

[joecrazy]

"Reject modernity, embrace pulp!" Joking aside, hope you cover Doc Savage as well eventually.

[cynthiaspencer]

Dad says that The Shadow/Kent Allard acting as Lamont Cranston and Doc Savage/Clark Savage Jr. aka the Man of Bronze were subtle inspiration for Superman. The Shadow had a "girlfriend" named Margo LANE and his true first name was KENT while Doc had an Arctic Fortress of Solitude as well as the first name CLARK. He also had a cousin, Patricia, who would join him on occasion ala Kara Zor-El/Supergirl/Linda Lee Danvers. The Shadow had special powers and Doc was said to possess superhuman strength.

[LRM]

Some radio episodes was voiced by Orson Wells Margo Lane was Agnes Morehead ( from Bewitched she played the mother of Samantha Stevensons).

[michaelpennington]

They need to make another Shadow movie, he is FREAKIN BAD ASS!!!

[FlickFreaks]

The Shadow is one of my favorite comic characters ever