Weeding out bitter fruit for 90 years.
Pick your fave version.

You missed my fave- Frank Robbins, baby!
No, actually my favorite would be the O'Neil/Kaluta version, followed by the radio show and pulp novels in a tie.
When Kaluta left and was replaced by Frank Robbins, I couldn't process it. I continued buying because of my love of the Shadow, but his art made no sense to me at the time. I quickly grew to love the energy of it, though.

The Chaykin/Siekiewicz/Baker sequence, just for all the great art to be found.

The art is great, but I never felt like I was reading about the Shadow. Chaykin's reboot of the Shadow and various DC characters around that time all seemed to be him shoe-horning American Flagg into whichever character he was currently working on. He is a great, unique comic creator who does his best work with his own original characters. Does not play well with others.

Yeah, sounds accurate. I didn't really care because I have no expectations of that character. I just went along for the ride.

Fair enough!

Hank Marvin FTW...although Terence "Jet" Harris was also worthy of note.

A.N. Other: The Dynamite series from about 10 years ago. It got a little wonky after the first arc but that was pretty good.

I put the '70s DC version. I really know that one only from seeing The Shadow's team-up with Batman during that period. It made an impression on my as a young comics reader. I think that's where I first heard about The Shadow.

Now if you want to get into obscure Shadow versions, there's the 1937 movie "The Shadow Strikes" with Rod La Rocque. It was a Poverty Row picture in which he barely appears onscreen in costume. Its sequel, "International Crime," goes Elseworlds and makes Lamont Cranston into a crusading radio reporter who goes by the name The Shadow on the radio and doesn't wear a costume at all. Not a bad movie in its own right, but not what you'd normally call a Shadow story.

The DC 70's book was my introduction to the character. And, yes, Robbins was a love/hate
relationship for me. He worked the best on The Invaders for me, but any period piece worked
well for his artwork once you acquired your taste for it.

I have the serial, which I like, and also an early made for TV pilot episode. I haven't watched the
two pre-Serial movies or one post-serial B&W movie, but I may pick them up yet. Amazon has a
collection of all the earlier pre-Baldwin stuff.

The things you find in the internet...here's 3 short films from the early '30s that feature the Shadow before he became The Shadow that we now know...the host will explain...



And short films starring The Shadow are still being made--this one came out just 7 years ago.