Friday, May 20, 2022

"The Shadow Unmasks"


"You remember Kent Allard, the aviator, who was lost a dozen years ago? On that flight to South America? They've located Allard himself! He landed in the Guatemalan jungle, and became the white god of a tribe of Xinca Indians. A Xinca messenger has just shown up in Puerto Barrios, on the Caribbean, with word that Allard is on his way back to civilization. The Classic wants me to go to Guatemala and meet him." - Clyde Burke

  Ah, the one the fans were waiting for.  131 issues in, 6 1/3 years after The Shadow took the world by storm.  Solid cover if strangely generic.  The Shadow Wiki gives this synopsis...

For the first time in his long career as a crime fighter extraordinary, The Shadow thrusts aside his veil of mystery! Not under one of his many aliases but in his true identity, The Shadow reveals himself! Here, in his latest battle against the underworld, is exposed the unfathomable past of being known to all the world as The Shadow!

While trailing some jewel thieves, The Shadow drops his Lamont Cranston alter ego when newspaper headlines claim that the real Cranston has been injured in an airplane accident. The Shadow decides to reveal his true self to his friend, Slade Farrow, as the recently found aviator, Kent Allard.

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