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JOURNAL OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE INTRODUCTION PAGE 48
Left: 1934 promotional sign for the radio program. See Scoop Galleries for amazing collectibles site. Right: Street and Smith Pulp Magazine from the 1940s.
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Men? The Shadow knows." One of the original twentieth-century Super-Heroes, this mysterious night prowler began his career on July 31, 1930 as an announcer on Street & Smith's radio show Detective Story Hour. His popularity convinced the publishing house to create a Pulp Magazine for the character. From 1931 through 1949, newspaperman/magician Walter B. Gibson, writing under the name Maxwell Grant, wrote 282 of the 325 Shadow novels in Pulp Magazine form. The Shadow is Kent Allard, a pilot/adventurer who (like Sherlock Holmes) sometimes takes on other identities, such as, Lamont Cranston. Another of Allard's impersonations is Fritz, an old janitor at police headquarters, who listens in on the officers' conversations.
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