THE SHADOW "The Temple Bells of Neban"

Orson Welles starts as The Shadow with Agnes Moorehead in episode 91 aired October 24, 1937 on CBS Radio. The Shadow finds himself in peril when going against a drug ring where he encounters the niece of the yogi who taught him his secret of invisibility.  She knows who the Shadow is, has powers of her own, and threatens to destroy him. An American radio series, The Shadow aired from 1937 to 1954. The title character was initially the narrator of Detective Story Hour, a radio program that promoted Street & Smith’s Detective Story magazine. This one character became so popular that he would eventually became the main character in his own magazine. Today, The Shadow is considered an icon of the pulp era.