The Shadow #46

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vol.4 #6, 1944. Street & Smith Publications.

The front cover is yucky. I hate spiders. Yuck. Anyhow, the first story is The Shadow and the Vanishing Prisoners. Apparently the Shadow has set up a base in Tokyo (spelled Tokio in the comic) to cause the Japanese militarists as much trouble as he can. The Kura is an underground, anti-militaristic group that he works with.

Prisoners are held on an island. The Japanese (the Shadow uses the term Japs, are going to interrogate the prisoners.) The story also sets up a way that the reader can actively keep count of where the prisoners are. He keeps rearranging the number of prisoners in each cell so the total the Japanese see remains the same even though the total number of actual prisoners can change.

Finally the Japanese guards are forced into the guardhouse and the Shadow fires a cannon from a ship, blowing up the Japanese guards.

The next story is a Doc Savage one. The story is about some guys out to scam a lot of money from people, trying to make them believe they have found a way to make steel lighter.

The next story is another Shadow one, entitled The Shadow Meets the Tarantula. The Shadow investigates some airplane crashes. The crook makes webs out of a special steel to catch planes. The story doesn't make any sense. In order to use a web the crook has to have two tallish but thin mountains near each other. No airliner is going to fly between two mountains of that nature under any conditions. Also, the Shadow just happens to be carrying hand grenades. What? That is stretching things pretty far.

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