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JOURNAL OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE INTRODUCTION PAGE 49
With his woman colleague Margo Lane, a highly resourceful operative, the Shadow battles criminals, the supernatural, foreign invaders, and mad scientists. As The Shadow, Kent Allard has hypnotic talents to "cloud men's minds" so they can't see him, learned from Tibetan mystics. He can perform Houdini-like escapes, make himself appear to be in one place while actually being in another.
Left: 1940 Columbia serial. Middle: Bantam books (1945) reprint of the 1940 pulp magazine story The Voice of Death. See the Shadow Site owned by Tomi Vaisala for a detailed history. Right: DC Comics version, 1973; art by Michael Kaluta.
In a series of slam-bang mystery thrillers, The Shadow floats like a ghost through neon noir. As with Zorro and Batman, there is a Dracula-like quality about him. On radio twenty-one years, in films, pulp magazines, comic books, toys, and the paperback reprints with James Steranko covers, the Shadow looms over all of the dark knights of current mythology.
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