The Shadow
The Shadow is the name of a collection of serialized dramas, originally in 1930s pulp novels, and then in a wide variety of media, and it is also used to refer to the character featured in The Shadow media. One of the most famous adventure heroes of...
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The Shadow is the name of a collection of serialized dramas,
originally in 1930s pulp novels, and then in a wide variety of
media, and it is also used to refer to the character featured in
The Shadow media. One of the most famous adventure heroes of the
20th century United States, the Shadow has been featured on the
radio, in a long-running pulp magazine series, in American comic
books, comic strips, television, serials, video games, and at least
five films. The radio drama included episodes voiced by Orson
Welles.
On September 26, 1937, The Shadow radio drama, a new radio series
based on the character as created by Gibson for the pulp magazine,
premiered with the story "The Death House Rescue," in which The
Shadow was characterized as having "the power to cloud men's minds
so they cannot see him." As in the magazine stories, The Shadow was
not given the literal ability to become invisible.
The introduction from The Shadow radio program "Who knows what evil
lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!", spoken by actor
Frank Readick Jr, has earned a place in the American idiom. These
words were accompanied by an ominous laugh and a musical theme,
Camille Saint-Saëns' Le Rouet d'Omphale ("Omphale's Spinning
Wheel", composed in 1872). At the end of each episode The Shadow
reminded listeners that, "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit!
Crime does not pay...The Shadow knows!" (Some early episodes,
however, used the alternate statement, "As you sow evil, so shall
you reap evil! Crime does not pay...The Shadow knows!")
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