"Battle of Greed"

 "Rupert Sandersham," came the voice of The Shadow, "you are a man condemned by your own avarice!  You are a master, not of finance, but of greed!"

A boring cover with a not so compelling quote.  This would not have appealed to me if I weren't already a fan.  However this review says try it, you'll like it!

And speaking of the cover, it was the apparent inspiration for this Better Little Book from 1940.  

The Shadow and the Ghost Makers: A Better Little Book

 Now I want to see what moves when one just flips the pages.  I hope that it would be The Shadow doing something heroic.

The Better Little Book

Really like the simple style of the art and the fonts are just cool.  Too bad they left the ring off of his left hand.  Still, I'd love to have this little book.

The Better Little Book...

The Shadow and the Living Death. Kinda gruesome for the audience that these little books were aimed for. I'm sure that the story and interior art were very tame but the title seems a bit lurid. However, I'm stating that from the viewpoint of a politically correct citizen of this namby pamby world we live in. Back then, a time when common sense seems to have been more in vogue than this new century embraces, I'm guessing that people didn't have such low tolerances for the salacious and sensational. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into a simple title from 1940.