The Return of the Shadow

The Shadow knows…

“Your life,” probed the hypnotic voice from the shadows, “is no longer your own. It belongs to me now. I shall improve it. I shall make it useful. But I shall risk it, too. Perhaps I shall lose it, for I have lost lives, just as I have saved them. This is my code: life, with enjoyment, with danger, with excitement. Life, above all, with honor. And in return, I demand obedience. Absolute obedience.”

“I promise,” whispered The Shadow’s new agent. “I swear absolute obedience…”

First of the Belmont ‘Shadow’ publications (series numbers 326 to 334), and the only one written by Walter Gibson. Featuring Lamont (The Shadow) Cranston.