THE SHADOW "Who He Is and How He Came to Be!" Chapter 8

 

To Be Continued...?

Radio Comics' The Shadow was canceled as of this issue (#8 [1965]).

Whatever conclusion the anonymous writer had in mind will never be revealed.

In the early 1980s, I worked for JC Comics (which was based at the Archie Comics offices) and also assisted on a couple of the Red Circle superhero comics as needed.

I enquired of editor Victor Gorlick, whose career at Archie spanned decades, from the Golden Age up to his retirement in the early 2010s, if there was any unpublished Shadow material.

He said there once was, but it had "disappeared", and he didn't remember who had written the text pieces!

Perhaps only The Shadow Knows...

Please Support Hero Histories

Visit Amazon and Buy...

The Shadow

by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

THE SHADOW "Who He Is and How He Came to Be!" Chapter 7

To Be Continued

TOMORROW

Please Support Hero Histories

Visit Amazon and Buy...

The Shadow

by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

THE SHADOW "Who He Is and How He Came to Be!" Chapter 6

To Be Continued

TOMORROW

Please Support Hero Histories

Visit Amazon and Buy...

The Shadow

by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

THE SHADOW "Who He Is and How He Came to Be!" Chapter 5

To Be Continued

MONDAY

Please Support Hero Histories

Visit Amazon and Buy...

The Shadow

by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

THE SHADOW "Who He Is and How He Came to Be!" Chapter 4

To Be Continued

TOMORROW

Please Support Hero Histories

Visit Amazon and Buy...

The Shadow

by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

THE SHADOW "Who He Is and How He Came to Be!" Chapter 3

To Be Continued

TOMORROW

Please Support Hero Histories

Visit Amazon and Buy...

The Shadow

by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

THE SHADOW "Who He Is and How He Came to Be!" Chapter 2

To Be Continued

TOMORROW

Please Support Hero Histories

Visit Amazon and Buy...

The Shadow

by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

THE SHADOW "Who He Is and How He Came to Be" Chapter 1

With the most extensive revamp/reboot to the character since the 1960s Radio Comics version...

...by James Patterson and Brian Sitts (now in bookstores and at Amazon)...

...we hereby present the updated (as of the Silver Age) origin/reboot of He Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men from Radio Comics The Shadow, beginning with this entry from #1 (1964)...

To Be Continued

TOMORROW

This ongoing text feature ran through the entire Radio Comics series (1964-1965).

The writer is unknown, but it might have been either Robert Bernstein (who wrote the first couple of issues of the comic, before it became a "campy" costumed superhero title under writer Jerry (Superman) Siegel...

...or Denys Lynds who scripted the updated, superspy-style Shadow novels being published simultaneously by Belmont Books...

...or somebody entirely different!

Only the Shadow Knows!

Please Support Hero Histories

Visit Amazon and Buy...

The Shadow

by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

Reading Room: THE SHADOW "Shiwan Khan's House of Horrors" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Hero...

...why do I even need to show up?

The comic itself does the work for me!

See you at the end of the story...

As of this story from Archie's The Shadow #3 (1964), Jerry Siegel replaced Robert Bernstein as scripter.

Paul Reinman had taken over from John Rosenberger as artist for the remainder of the run, as well as assuming art chores for most of Radio Comics (renamed Mighty Comics' shortly after) line of books including The Mighty Crusaders, and Fly-Man.

Check out the

 Comics Collectibles Shop 

for goodies featuring other Silver Age heroes, besides The Shadow!

Reading Room: THE SHADOW "Shiwan Khan's House of Horrors" Part 1

In the 1960s, many classic comic and pulp heroes were revived...

...some not quite as successfully as others!

Be here tomorrow for the campy conclusion,

and, as they used to say on Batman...

"The worst is yet to come!"

Penned by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Paul Reinman, this tale from Radio Comics' The Shadow #3 (1964) is easily one of the low points of the career of He Who Knows What Evil...!

Apparently seeing The Shadow adapted to a high-adventure/spy format was not selling in comics as well as it did in paperbacks like this...

...the staff at Radio Comics (Archie Comics' 1960s superhero line) decided to go into full campy superhero mode instead, dumping the cloak and slouch hat and giving him a hideous costume and some gimmicks, while retaining the ability to "cloud mens' minds".
Unfortunately, we still remember these never-reprinted stories...

Check out the

 Comics Collectibles Shop 

for goodies featuring other Silver Age heroes, besides The Shadow!