The Shadow (English)

Notes:

1930 The Shadow premiers on radio as narrator of Detective Story Hour.
1931 The Shadow premiers in pulp magazines published by Street and Smith.
1931 The Shadow premiers as a narrator in films based on Detective Story Hour.
1937 The Shadow first stars in movies and eventually movie serials.
1937 The Shadow stars in his own radio program over the Mutual Radio Network.
1940 The Shadow premiers in comic books by Street and Smith.
1940 Ledger Syndicate begins The Shadow newspaper comic strips.
1954 An unaired TV pilot was produced.
1963 The Shadow premiers in paperback books, initially by Belmont Books, with a new novel.
1964 Archie Comic's revival of the character as a costumed crime fighter.
1968 Metro Records introduces The Shadow to the L.P. market: a new production with some of the radio actors.
1973 D.C. Comics starts publishing The Shadow in comics.
1993 Dark Horse Comics starts publishing The Shadow in comics.
2011 Dynamite Entertainment starts publishing The Shadow in comics.
2015 The character again reintroduced in novels, this time by Altus Press.
2021 James Patterson and Brian Sitts release a new Shadow novel, and another in 2023.


Feature Relations

  1. as feature in other language: Judex [The Shadow] (French)
  2. as feature in other language: De Schim [The Shadow] (Dutch)
  3. as feature in other language: The Shadow (French)
  4. as feature in other language: Le Shadow (French)
  5. as feature in other language: The Shadow (German)
  6. as feature in other language: The Shadow (Norwegian)
  7. as feature in other language: Skyggen (Norwegian)
  8. as feature in other language: O Sombra (Portuguese)
  9. as feature in other language: Svarta Skuggan [DC, The Shadow] (Swedish)
  10. as feature in other language: L'Uomo Ombra (Italian)
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