The Shadow

The Shadow (Dark Horse Comics)

by Michael Kaluta, Joel Goss

A la fin des années 20, le Tibet est sous la coupe d'un chef de guerre cruel et sanguinaire, Ying Ko. Enlevé sur l'ordre d'un saint homme doué de pouvoirs surnaturels, le Tulku, celui-ci l'oblige à se racheter. Il en fera même son disciple et l'instrument privilégié de sa lutte contre le mal. Ying Ko renaît alors 7 ans plus tard à New York sous les traits d'un richissime et élégant play boy: Lamont Cranston. Revêtant une longue cape noire et s'armant de 2 pistolets d'argent, ce terrible vengeur de l'ombre pourchasse les criminels, traque et met en fuite gangsters et assassins. Il est devenu le Shadow...

Genres: Comics

52 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Michael Kaluta, sometimes credited as Mike Kaluta, Michael William Kaluta or Michael Wm. Kaluta, is an American comics artist and writer best known for his acclaimed 1970s adaptation of the pulp magazine hero The Shadow with writer Dennis O'Neil.
(source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Shadow had a fairly good movie in 1994 starring Alec Baldwin as Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow which did stay fairly faithful to the magazines, OTR radio plays and the comics and yet failed to ignited the general audiences around the world (another proof of general stupidity by audiences in my humble opinion). Anyhow this is a novelisation of the movie in a comic and it stays pretty close to the source even if some plots are made shorter to fit the comic format.

If you have never seen the movie go and see it and then read the comic novelisation by Dark Horse, and while you are at it listen some great OTR (Old Time Radio plays, preferable those with Orson Welles as the Shadow) and spend some great time listening to adventures before the world became a small place with way to many complications.