The Red Menace

November 1, 1931.

It's quite obvious from the title that this book has something to do with Communism. It probably would have done especially well during the McCarthy era. What the book does is make the Czarists the good guys and the revolutionaries, the Communists, the bad guys. The Red Envoy is the main villain of the Communists.

Bruce Duncan, from The Eyes of the Shadow, returns in this book to help the Shadow. The Communists are after the plans for an aerial torpedo.

Harry Vincent is in this issue, along with the office of B.Jones, where messages are dropped off for the Shadow. New to this issue is showing that the Shadow is ambidextrous and has the power to hypnotize people. We also learn about the method of communication in which certain words are emphasized to deliver a special message. We also learn the Shadow is excellent at languages, and he has something called 'The Devil's Whisper' which is something he puts on his thumb and finger to produce a burst of light.

Harry Vincent, Claude Fellows and Burbank are also in the story.

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