The Shadow

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The Shadow is a classic American radio drama series featuring a mysterious crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making him invisible to his enemies.

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Label Occurrences
The Shadow canonical 6
The Shadow (pulp magazine) 1
The Shadow (radio series) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American radio program
radio drama series
basedOn The Shadow pulp magazine character
broadcastOn CBS Radio
Mutual Broadcasting System
centralPremise crime-fighting vigilante with power to cloud men’s minds
characterCreatedBy Walter B. Gibson
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
distributionFormat syndicated radio transcription discs
featuresCharacter Commissioner Weston
Margo Lane
Shrevvy
firstAired 1937
format radio serial
genre crime drama
mystery
superhero fiction
hasMainCharacter Lamont Cranston
The Shadow self-link
hasNarrator The Shadow self-link
hasSpinOff The Shadow comic books
The Shadow self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Shadow film serials

The Shadow novels
influenced Batman character development
later superhero radio shows
lastAired 1954
margoLaneVoiceActor Agnes Moorehead
Grace Matthews
Lesley Woods
Marjorie Anderson NERFINISHED
narrationCatchphrase Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!
narrationVoiceActor Frank Readick
notableEra Golden Age of Radio
openingTheme “The Shadow” theme based on Saint-Saëns’ “Omphale’s Spinning Wheel”
originalLanguage English
originalMedium radio
power ability to cloud men’s minds
practical invisibility to enemies
producer Charles Michelson
Harry A. Junkin NERFINISHED
J. R. Poppele
setting New York City
targetAudience general radio audience
themeMusicComposer Bernard Herrmann
titleCharacterVoiceActor Bill Johnstone
Bret Morrison
John Archer
Orson Welles
Steve Courtleigh

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Mutual notableProgram The Shadow
subject surface form: Mutual Broadcasting System
Victor Jory notableWork The Shadow
this entity surface form: The Shadow (radio series)
Street & Smith published The Shadow
this entity surface form: The Shadow (pulp magazine)
Street & Smith createdCharacter The Shadow
Servant of the Secret Fire opposedTo The Shadow
this entity surface form: the Shadow
The Shadow hasMainCharacter The Shadow self-link
The Shadow hasSpinOff The Shadow self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Shadow film serials
The Shadow hasNarrator The Shadow self-link
Lobster Johnson inspiredByStyle The Shadow
Will Murray hasWrittenAbout The Shadow