“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” . . . why
Orson Welles, of course.
Today, July 31st marks the 83 anniversary of the
first appearance of The Shadow as a mysterious narrator on the Street &
Smith radio program, Detective
Story Hour. He was so popular that they gave him his very own pulp magazine
starting on April 1st, 1931.
The nature of the publishing game at the time was
to invest as little as possible in new ventures – the awful world economy of
the early 1930s was not conducive to “rolling out” new magazines with any kind
of “bang.” Thus, this first Shadow cover used recycled art that had originally
appeared as the cover of The Thrill Book on Oct. 1, 1919.
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