I've never read a Shadow story before. I'd heard they were pretty great, but I heard that about the Spider and the one I read was not that good. But since I got a free copy of two Shadow stories (this being the first, from 1933) at Media-con last week I thought I'd give it a shot. These two stories are some of the weirder ones from the vast amount of novels published. It's interesting that the Shadow was a more "realistic" pulp hero, at least in the early years, as opposed to the Spider or Doc Savage.
