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The Shadow is a fictional character created by American magazine publishers Street & Smith and writer Walter B. Gibson.Originally created to be a mysterious radio show narrator, [2] and developed into a distinct literary character in 1931 by Gibson, The Shadow has been adapted into other forms of media, including American comic books, comic strips, serials, video games, and at least five ...
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is attempting domination of major financial and business concerns. Victor Jory's Shadow is faithful to the radio character, especially the radio show's signature: the sinister chuckle of the invisible Shadow as he confronts the villain or his ...
Lamont Cranston/ The Shadow Margo Lane Announcer 1: 26 8 18 1937–1938: Orson Welles: Agnes Moorehead: Ken Roberts: 1B: 26 0 26 1938: Margot Stevenson: 2: 26 1 25 1938–1939: William Johnstone: Agnes Moorehead: 3: 29 5 1 incomplete 23 1 incomplete 1939–1940: Marjorie Anderson: 4: 30 1 29 1940–1941: Jeanette Nolan: 5: 26 9 1 incomplete 16 ...
Margo is a friend and companion to Lamont Cranston, and an agent for his alter ego, The Shadow, in the wealthy set. Her first appearance was in 1937 in The Shadow radio drama. Her first appearance in a print story was in The Thunder King, a story in the June 15, 1941, issue of The Shadow Magazine.
For example, Gibson's Shadow is, in reality, Kent Allard, a former World War I aviator, who sometimes posed as playboy Lamont Cranston. On the radio show, The Shadow was Cranston, a "wealthy young man about town." [6] Similarly, Shadow companion Margo Lane arose not from the pulp novels but from the radio program; she was added to offer a ...
For the first year of its Mutual run, Welles provided the voice of The Shadow and his newly created alter ego, Lamont Cranston. He played the part anonymously at first. But, as one chronicler put it, "nothing to do with Welles could remain a secret for very long." [39] In April 1938, the network picked up The Green Hornet from former member ...
The Shadow Strikes is a 1937 black and white American film based on the story Ghost of the Manor written by Walter B. Gibson under the pen name Maxwell Grant. [1] [2] The Shadow was featured on a popular radio show and also as a pulp magazine crime fighter. The film was directed by Lynn Shores and stars Rod La Rocque [3] as Lamont
The Lamont Cranston Band is an American blues band based in Hamel, Minnesota. [1] It was founded in 1969 by brothers Pat and Larry Hayes and continues today with Pat as the band's frontman. [ 1 ] The band is named after the alter ego of the pulp hero The Shadow .