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Signed by both writer Garth Ennis, variant cover artist Howard Chaykin, and interior artist Aaron Campbell, the comic features the first Shadow comic published by Dynamite Entertainment. One of four variant covers, it is professionally graded by CGC and certified as part of their special Signature Series (with white pages), it will be shipped with the utmost care. With Signature Series books a certified CGC witness actually observes the signing of the comic and then immediately takes possession of the book so there is no possibility of the real autograph being switched out with another.
About the Shadow:
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! So went one of he Golden Age of Radio’s most popular catchphrases, announcing to listeners that once again it was time for the Shadow to prove that crime does not pay. Originally merely a mysterious announcer for Street and Smith’s Detective Story Hour, the publisher recognized it had a hit on its hands when their listeners asked at newsstands not for Street and Smith but for the Shadow. They hired on Walter Gibson to write Shadow novels and also adapted the Shadow for his own radio drama. What had originally been a simple attention grabbing gimmick would ultimately become a true American Icon. Gibson would write over 300 Shadow stories and the radio program would become one of OTR’s longest running series’, broadcast over the Mutual network from September 26, 1937 until December 26, 1954. The Shadow would go on to appear in not only the Pulps and radio but in novels, comic strips, movies, toys and other assorted merchandise and, of course, comic books (the first company to publish Shadow comics was Street and Smith, followed in the 1960's by Archie, then DC in the 1970's and 1980's, Dark Horse in the 1990's and, most recently, Dynamite Entertainment.