About the Show
“The Shadow” was the name given to the mysterious narrator of the Detective Story Hour radio program. Listeners found the sinister announcer more compelling than the unrelated stories and began asking news dealers for copies of “that Shadow detective magazine,” though it did not exist. On September 26, 1937, The Shadow, a new radio drama based on the character created by Walter B. Gibson, premiered in which The Shadow was characterized as having “the hypnotic power to cloud men’s minds so they cannot see him.”