The Ghost Makers

  How very pulpy.  Not a favorite of mine but certainly a striking image.  Early images and stories are very important to what we eventually come to know as The Shadow.  This is only the 16th published novel and, as evidenced by this snippet from a review from "The Shadow in Review" by John Olsen, our hero was still in the making.

  "In one scene, The Shadow holds a crook at gunpoint and forces him to drink poison, then watches him die. That's not The Shadow that I've come to know from reading the entire series. Surprisingly brutal! But again, we can probably attribute that to the fact that the story was early in the run, and Gibson was still experimenting with the character of The Shadow."

  I have read this one and can certainly recommend it whole heartedly.  Enjoy.