The Shadow

In , another DC adaptation was developed by Howard Chaykin. This four issue miniseries, The Shadow: While initially successful, [20] this version proved unpopular with traditional Shadow fans [21] because it depicted The Shadow using two Uzi submachine guns, as well as featuring a strong strain of black comedy and extreme violence throughout. The Shadow , set in our modern era, was continued in as a monthly DC comics series by writer Andy Helfer editor of the miniseries ; it was drawn primarily by artists Bill Sienkiewicz issues 1—6 and Kyle Baker issues 8—19 and two Shadow Annual s.

This one-shot appeared in both hardcover and trade paperback editions. Each cover was illustrated by Greene and colored by one of Eternity's colorists. A total of 13 issues appeared featuring just the black-and-white daily until the final issue, dated November, Some of the Shadow storylines were contained in one issue, while others were continued over into the next.

When a Shadow story ended, another tale would begin in the same issue.

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This back-to-back format continued until the final 13th issue. Here is a list of the reprinted strip's storylines:. Dave Stevens ' nostalgic comics series Rocketeer contains a great number of pop culture references to the s. Various characters from the Shadow pulps make appearances in the storyline published in the Rocketeer Adventure Magazine , including The Shadow's famous alter ego Lamont Cranston.

Two issues were published by Comico in and , but the third and final instalment did not appear until years later, finally appearing in from Dark Horse Comics. All three issues were then collected by Dark Horse into a slick trade paperback titled The Rocketeer: The volume also featured a new Shadow adventure drawn by Kaluta.

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This series was set in the s and returned The Shadow to his pulp origins. During its run, it featured The Shadow's first team-up with Doc Savage , another popular hero of the pulp magazine era. Both characters appeared together in a four-issue story that crossed back and forth between each character's DC comic series. In issue 7, The Shadow meets a radio announcer named Grover Mills, a character based on the young Orson Welles , who has been impersonating The Shadow on the radio. The character's name is taken from Grover's Mill, New Jersey , the name of the small town where the Martians land in Welles' radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.

It published the Shadow miniseries The Shadow: In the Coils of Leviathan four issues in , and The Shadow: Hell's Heat Wave three issues in In the Coils of Leviathan was later collected by Dark Horse in as a trade paperback. A comics adaptation of the film The Shadow was published in two issues by Dark Horse as part of the movie's merchandising campaign.

The script was by Goss and Kaluta and drawn by Kaluta. It was collected and published in England by Boxtree as a graphic novel tie-in for the film's British release. The Case of the Shrieking Skeletons. It was written by Steve Vance, and illustrated by Manoukian and Roucher. Both issues' covers were drawn by Rocketeer creator Dave Stevens. A final Dark Horse Shadow team-up was published in Baker, and inked by Bernard Kolle. It was set in modern times. The Shadow made an uncredited cameo appearance in issue 2 of DC's four issue miniseries Kingdom Come , re-released as a trade paperback in The Shadow appears in the nightclub scene standing in the background next to The Question and Rorschach.

The Shadow daily began appearing in the first issue of Pulp Action comics. It carried no monthly date or issue number on the cover, only a copyright and a Pulp Action 1 notation at the bottom of the inside cover. Each issue's cover is a colorized panel blow-up, taken from one of the reprinted strips.

The eighth issue uses for its cover a Shadow serial black-and-white film still , with several hand-drawn alterations. The first issue of Pulp Action is devoted entirely to reprinting the Shadow daily, but subsequent issues began offering back-up stories not involving The Shadow in every issue. These Shadow strip reprints stopped with Pulp Action ' s eighth issue, before the story was complete.

Here are the strip's reprinted storylines the last issue carries a copyright date:. This series ran for 26 issues; the regular series ended in May , but a prologue issue 0 was published in July Dynamite followed with the release of an eight-issue miniseries, Masks , teaming the s Shadow with Dynamite's other pulp hero comic book adaptations, The Spider , the Green Hornet and Kato , and a s Zorro , plus four other heroes of the pulp era from Dynamite's comics lineup. Additional Dynamite Entertainment Shadow comics adaptations and team-ups continue.

The Shadow character has been adapted for film shorts and films. In Universal Pictures created a series of six film shorts based on the popular Detective Story Hour radio program, narrated by The Shadow. Beginning with the second short, The House of Mystery , the series was produced in Hollywood without the voice of Readick as The Shadow; it was followed by The Circus Show-Up and three additional shorts the following year with other voice actors portraying The Shadow.

Lamont Cranston assumes the secret identity of "The Shadow" in order to thwart an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. La Rocque returned the following year in International Crime. In this version, reporter Lamont Cranston is an amateur criminologist and detective who uses the name of "The Shadow" as a radio gimmick. The Shadow , a chapter movie serial produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Victor Jory , premiered in theaters in The serial's villain, The Black Tiger, is a criminal mastermind who sabotages rail lines and factories across the United States.

Lamont Cranston must become his shadowy alter ego in order to unmask the criminal and halt his fiendish crime spree. As The Shadow, Jory wears an all-black suit and cape, as well as a black bandana that helps conceal his facial features. Low-budget motion picture studio Monogram Pictures produced a trio of quickie Shadow B-movie features in starring Kane Richmond: Richmond's Shadow wore all black, including a trench coat, a wide-brimmed fedora, and a full face-mask similar to the type worn by movie serial hero The Masked Marvel , instead of the character's signature black cape with red lining and red scarf.

Episodes of a television pilot shot in were edited into the theatrical feature Invisible Avenger , rereleased in as Bourbon Street Shadows. As the film opens, Cranston has become the evil and corrupt Yin-Ko literally "Dark Eagle" , a brutal warlord and opium smuggler in early s Mongolia. Yin-Ko is kidnapped by agents of the mysterious Tulku , who begins to reform the warlord using the psychic power of his evolved mind to restore Cranston's humanity. The Tulku also teaches him the ability to "cloud men's minds" using psychic power in order to fight evil in the world.

Cranston eventually returns to his native New York City and takes up the guise of the mysterious crime fighter "The Shadow", in payment to humanity for his past evil misdeeds: His nemesis in the film is adapted from the pulp series' long-running Asian villain and for the film, a fellow telepath , the evil Shiwan Khan John Lone , a descendant of Genghis Khan.

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He seeks to finish his ancestor's legacy of conquering the world by first destroying New York City , using a newly developed atomic bomb , in a show of his power. Khan nearly succeeds in this, but he is thwarted by The Shadow in a final psychic duel of death: Cranston, as The Shadow, imposes his will on, and defeats, Khan during a psychokinetically enhanced battle in a mirrored room, which has exploded into thousands of flying mirror shards.

Focusing his mind's psychokinetic power, The Shadow flips a flying piece of jagged mirror in mid-air and then hurls it directly at a spot on Khan's forehead; this does not kill him, it renders him unconscious. To save both the warlord and the world, The Shadow secretly arranges with one of his agents, an administrative doctor at an unidentified New York asylum for the criminally insane, to have Khan locked away permanently in a padded cell; Khan's badly-injured frontal lobe , which controlled his psychic powers, having been surgically removed.

The film combines elements from The Shadow pulp novels and comic books with the aforementioned ability to cloud minds described only on the radio show. In the film Alec Baldwin , as The Shadow, wears a red-lined black cloak and a long red scarf that covers his mouth and chin; he also wears a black, double-breasted trench coat and a wide-brimmed, black slouch hat ; as in the pulp novels, he is armed with a pair of Browning.

The film also displays a first: Cranston's ability to conjure a false face whenever he is in his guise as The Shadow, in keeping with his physical portrayal in the pulps and the comics. The film was financially and critically unsuccessful. On October 16, , Raimi stated, "I don't have any news on The Shadow at this time, except that the company that I have with Josh Donen, my producing partner, we've got the rights to The Shadow. I love the character very much and we're trying to work on a story that'll do justice to the character. A video game version of The Shadow was developed to tie in with the film and supposed to be published on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System [30] but after the low box office gross of the film, the game was never released despite being completed.

Two attempts were made to adapt the character to television. The second attempt in was titled The Invisible Avenger ; it never aired. The two episodes produced were compiled into a theatrical film and released with the same title. It was re-released with additional footage in as Bourbon Street Shadows. Margo Lane Peter Boyle Moe Shrevnitz Ian McKellen Reinhardt Lane Tim Curry Farley Claymore Jonathan Winters Li Peng Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad Isaac Newboldt John Kapelos Duke Rollins Max Wright Edit Storyline Based on the 's pulp fiction and radio drama series, the film pits the hero against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city ransom using an atom bomb.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Edit Did You Know? Trivia Sam Raimi originally wanted to adapt and direct this film, but was denied the rights to it. Goofs In the museum, Shiwan Khan mind-controls the security guard to shoot himself.

But the Shadow's agent reports a murder investigation - not a suicide. I saved your life, Roy Tam. It now belongs to me. Welch sang lead and let the world know when, forgetting a couple of words, he turned to colleagues and said "I knew it" in range of his microphone. In , EMI released a compilation album from to Rarities with sleeve notes by John Friesen. The first half of the album was by the Shadows and the second was from Marvin's solo career. Francis left after that tour and the line-up settled as Marvin, Welch and Bennett, supplemented on records and gigs by Cliff Hall keyboards and Alan Jones bass.

It was this line-up that reunited with Cliff Richard for two concerts at the London Palladium in March Highlights of the concert, including four solo Shadows tracks, were released the following year on the top ten charting album Thank You Very Much. On the back of this The Shadows recorded an instrumental version of " Don't cry for me Argentina " from the west end production " Evita ", released as a single at the tail end of the record eventually reached number 5 in the singles chart thereby giving the group their first top ten single since the s.

After 20 successful years together the Shadows and EMI parted company and the group signed a year contract to Polydor Records. The first album released under Polydor was the aptly titled " Change of Address " in September With the influential arrival of Cliff Hall Keyboards the tracks and album moved away somewhat from the usual 'Shadows' musical style and took on a more electronic sound featuring an over use of keyboards and synthesizers, with Bruce's contribution lost in the final mix. Moonlight Shadow ' and Bruce Springsteen 's, ' Dancing in the Dark ' both failing to make a dent in the singles chart.

Due to Alan Jones involvement with the Dave Clark 's Musical 'Time' The popular bassist was not available to contribute to the album and Paul Westwood temporarily sat in. This top ten album consisted entirely of cover songs. The album spent 16 weeks on chart peaking at number 6. In June the Shadows once more reunited with Cliff to celebrate 30 years in show business where the singer filled London's Wembley Stadium for two nights with a spectacular titled "The Event" in front of a combined audience of , people. As a special surprise for the fans Cliff invited onto the stage original and founding members of the group Jet Harris and Tony Meehan to perform ' Move It ' with him and his band.

Brian Bennett resigned from the group just before the group were to embark on what would be their final tour for 14 years with Marvin Welch and Bennett going their separate ways on 1 December following the final concert in Southampton.

The last studio album the Shadows recorded before they split, 'Reflection' was released in September. The group re-formed in for a farewell tour, and recorded "Life Story" written by Lordan to accompany a hits package of the same name which featured '80s re-recordings of all their s and s hits. This opportunity to see Marvin, Welch and Bennett, joined on keyboards by Cliff Hall and on bass by Mark Griffiths , was successful enough that they extended the tour to continental Europe in The line-up was almost the same, except that Warren Bennett , son of Brian, came in on keyboards instead of Hall.

Marvin, Welch and Bennett appeared together as special guests at Marty Wilde's 50th anniversary concert at the London Palladium on 27 May , performing "Move It" with Wilde on vocals. On 11 December , Richard and the Shadows performed at the Royal Variety Performance , at the same time announcing their forthcoming 50th anniversary tour. A new album, Reunited , featuring mostly rerecorded versions of their own hits, reached number four in the UK album chart in The Shadows are difficult to categorise because of their stylistic range, which includes pop , rock , surf rock and ballads with a jazz influence.

Most tunes are instrumental rock , with a few vocal numbers. Their rhythmic style is primarily on the beat , with little syncopation.

The Shadows and their management did not exploit commercial opportunities such as self-promotion via artwork. They allowed Vox to produce metallic badges in a script typeface, with the group name on the front bottom right corner of all three Vox cabinets sometime during the early s.

This badge became the "default" band logo but was never commercially exploited by the group. The Shadows never used the logo on the front of the bass drum, preferring to allow Meehan and Bennett to use their names instead. Belatedly, the logo was used once on the front artwork of the original studio album Specs Appeal. As of , the logo still remains untrademarked and uncopyrighted. In lieu of a proper band logo, four silhouettes of the original line-up, in ascending order of height, were used as a pseudo-logo on concert programme covers and artwork projects such as sheet music, EP and album covers.

The original artwork group silhouette was modified each time a member changed: During the s, EMI dropped the silhouettes, preferring to use three guitar necks or colour photos of the Shadows. During the later s, Polydor used a red Fender Stratocaster with white scratch plate as a symbol.