Lot # 2147: 1940-1943 Street & Smith The Shadow Pulp Magazine Collection (43)

Vigilante justice is served up in a heaping helping, with the presentation of this 1940-1943 Street & Smith The Shadow pulp magazine collection (43). Fronted with fantastic covers meant to induce compulsive buying, this bundle of WWII era thrillers is worthy for its quantity and quality, with condition ranging 75% Vg 4.0 to Vg-Fn 5.0, 25% Fr 1.0 to Gd-Vg 3.0. A big star in print, radio and the movies, the Shadow is the greatest hero of the detective pulp fiction realm. Seldom will you get a shot of so many classic pulp magazines all at once. With (43) all different issues of the same title, this ofeering is all the more special.

Featured are:

1940 (15): January 15th, February 1st, March 1st third appearance of Shiwan Khan, March 15th, April 1st, April 15th, May 1st, May 15th final appearance of Shiwan Khan, June 1st skeletal Death cover, June 15th, August 1st, October 15th, November 1st, December 1st, December 15th;

1941 (15): January 1st, January 15th, February 1st Shadow holds July 15, 1940 issue of Shadow Magazine while shooting, March 15th Shadow versus KKK-like villains, April 15th, May 1st, May 15th, June 1st, June 15th first pulp appearance of Margo Lane, July 1st, July 15th, August 1st skeleton mixing up the medicine cover, September 15th, October 15th, November 1st;

1942 (9): February 1st, Ferbuary 15th, March 1st, March 15th, May 1st, May 15th Science Fiction with man's body burned away by a finger ray beam, revealing skeleton, July 1st, September 15th, November 15th;

1943 (4): January 15th skull cover, April return to monthly schedule, June, August.