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The Shadow's Newspaper Adventures

The following is a descriptive list of The Shadow's fourteen newspaper comic strip adventures. That's all the storylines that were done in the strips' two-year life. In fact, the last storyline was never completed.

Since most of his adventures were not titled, I have taken the liberty of using the titles listed in J. Randolph Cox' book Man of Magic and Mystery: A Guide to the Work of Walter B. Gibson published in 1988. Next to The Duende History of The Shadow Magazine (by Will Murray: 1980) and The Shadow Scrapbook (by Walter B. Gibson: 1979), "Mystery" is probably the most complete and comprehensive reference book available.

For those of you who'd like to see and read one of the strips online, please visit The Shadow Magazine website. The link will take you directly to an example of the strip.
Also, you can try to get copies of Eternity Comics which reprinted the adventures in 1988 and 1989 under the title of "Crime Classics." Supposedly all the strips were done (which would've taken 18 issues), but I've only been able to confirm that about 13 issues were done. As I found out more, I'll update this section.


Titles in italics are those given by Cox (see above).

The Mystery of the Sealed Box
June 17 - August 10, 1940
Reprinted in the March '41 issue of "Shadow Comics"
and in the July/August '88 issues of "Crime Classics" #1 & #2
as "The Riddle of the Sealed Box"

The Shadow in His Sanctum
aka: The Mystery of the Sleeping Gas
August 12 - September 21, 1940
This is the online strip found at The Shadow Magazine website mentioned above.
Reprinted in the August/September '88 issues of "Crime Classics" #2 & #3

The Shadow versus Hoang Hu
September 23 - November 2, 1940
Reprinted in the May '41 issue of "Shadow Comics"
and in the September '88 & January '89 issues of "Crime Classics" #3 & #4

The Shadow on Shark Island
November 4, 1940 - January 25, 1941
Reprinted in the Sept. '41 issue of "Shadow Comics"

The Shadow versus The Bund
January 27 - April 19, 1941
First half of storyline reprinted in the Nov. '41 issue of "Shadow Comics"
Second half reprinted in the Mar. '42 issue of "Shadow Comics"

The Shadow versus Shiwan Khan
April 21 - July 26, 1941
Reprinted in the May '42 issue of "Shadow Comics"

The Shadow and the Darvin Fortune
July 28 - October 11, 1941
Reprinted in the July '42 issue of "Shadow Comics"

The Shadow and the Adele Varne Mystery
October 13 - November 22, 1941

The Shadow and Professor Scorpio
November 24 - December 13, 1941
Reprinted in the July '42 issue of "Shadow Comics"

The Shadow and the Grey Ghost
December 15, 1941 - January 10, 1942
Reprinted in the Sept. '42 issue of "Shadow Comics"

The Shadow and the Star of Delhi
January 12 - January 31, 1942
Storyline suggested by story "The Star of Delhi" that appeared in the July 1, '41 issue of The Shadow magazine

The Shadow and the Earthquake Machines
February 2 - March 28, 1942

The Shadow and the Return of Althor
March 30 - May 23, 1942
Semi-sequel to the above strip
Re-drawn for the May '43 issue of "Shadow Comics"

The Shadow and the Cliff Castle Mystery
May 25 - June 13, 1942
This is the last newspaper comic strip adventure and the storyline was never completed

The ETERNITY Reprints: 1988 - 1989

In the "Crime Classics" issues that I have, each one only has six weeks worth of adventures. This means that the newspaper adventures 'overlapped' CC issues -- one storyline would end, and on the next page, the next one begins.
This seems a little 'weird' to me, but given that Eternity comic issues had a set number of pages, it was the only logical way to reprint the strips.

And now, from The Shadow's files comes . . .

The Mystery of the Sealed Box {beginning only}
Scanned & cropped from "Crime Classics" #1 July 1988.