What was the story with Andrew Helfer's The Shadow?

[Shawn Hopkins]

I think the plug was pulled after 19, on a cliffhanger in which the Shadow's head had been transplanted onto a robot body. I heard the people who have the rights had some problem with the direction the series was taking, which I guess I could understand in light of the badass robot Shadow.

I really enjoyed this series, however, at least the part with the Kyle Baker art. There was just something about the gleeful violence of the Shadow's methods as Helfer wrote him and the way his servants were so firmly under his thumb that was amusing.

[Graham Vingoe]

I love the Helfer/Baker Shadow. As I've said on these forums before, it was a great shame that the run was curtailed so abruptly to make way for another 30's era crime comic.I can understand why Conde Nast weren't enthusiastic about it, but this run was a case of 2 creators just having a hell of a lot of fun with their source material and it made for excellent reading.

[Agentum]

They prefered to not sell anything at all i guess.

[vazel]

I can truly understand why Conde Nast pulled the plug on the series. I'm a huge Shadow fan and it was painful for me seeing The Shadow being treated like that. My major gripe with the series is The Shadow just isn't The Shadow unless he's living in early 20th century America with his twin .45s. The Shadow Strikes, now that one i really liked.

[DJ Sloofus]

I can truly understand why Conde Nast pulled the plug on the series. I'm a huge Shadow fan and it was painful for me seeing The Shadow being treated like that. My major gripe with the series is The Shadow just isn't The Shadow unless he's living in early 20th century America with his twin .45s. The Shadow Strikes, now that one i really liked.


I never cared too much for the Helfer/Baker issues, but the Sienkiewicz ones were pretty cool. The only scene I really remember is when that little guy shot all the drugs into that huge biker dude. What the hell happened in that storyline, anyway?

[Slam_Bradley]

They prefered to not sell anything at all i guess.


I'm not following you here at all. That title was immediately replaced at DC by The Shadow Strikes which lasted a couple of years. The rights then went to Dark Horse.

[spideyrules99]

I have read a few of the Shadow comis. I first heard of him when the moive came out. Than I got into some of the radio shows. My dad got a bunch on tape. One of those budles that had the Green Hornet and Shadow and such. As I said I only really read a few of the comics and found them really good. Are there any on trades or out on Shelves right now?

[DarthAstuart]

I have read a few of the Shadow comis. I first heard of him when the moive came out. Than I got into some of the radio shows. My dad got a bunch on tape. One of those budles that had the Green Hornet and Shadow and such. As I said I only really read a few of the comics and found them really good. Are there any on trades or out on Shelves right now?

I don't think there are any Shadow Strikes! trades from DC but that was a great series you would probably find in a quarter bin someplace, or could pick up online for about the price of a trade/hardcover.