The Doomed City

This is the first episode in a Shadow serial. The date for this is 1940.

The story starts in a shipyard.

Two crooks are trying to get into a building. A policeman hears them. On top of a building is the Shadow. The crooks knock out the policeman. The Shadow attacks and knocks out one crook; the s1 flees.

The Shadow calls the police. Later, the crook that was caught is in night court.

Something found on the crook.

The Shadow watches the hearing from above. Two of the guys in the audience work for the Black Tiger.

One of the two guys in the audience attacks the crook before he can talk. The Shadow drops into the room.

The two guys fire shots in the courtroom and flee. The Shadow changes his identity into a Chinese person.

The Shadow's cab, but the driver is called Vincent.

The cab drives into a hidden garage.

Lamont has removed his makeup.

Lamont asks the Oriental man if he recognizes the disk with the tiger on it. He says the black tiger was a sign of times filled with evil, violence and destruction.

Two crooks in the Black Tiger's headquarters.

The Black Tiger uses some kind of ray to make himself invisible.

The cone of light follows the guy.

As the guy talks, the eyes in the tiger's head glow.

They blow up a power plant.

They set a fire, I think at an airport.

They cause two trains to collide, after causing something to crash.

Commissioner Weston is on the right.

Lamont is a scientist and a criminologist. Apparently he has an entire research building.

Margo Lane.

The guy next to Weston is Joe Cardona. The guy on the right has just tested a new explosive.

By examining the overalls found at the site of the train wreck, Lamont is able to tell Weston a lot about the man who wore them.

The Shadow goes after a guy who just entered a motel.

The Shadow enters the guy's room.

The Shadow calls the police and tells them where the guy they have been searching for can be found.

The next day Lamont meets with Weston, who wants to know if Lamont knows anything about the Shadow.

Crooks are ransacking one of Lamont's rooms.

Lamont fights the three but they flee. Then he lets Margo out of a closet.

A familiar place to Shadow fans.

Lamont explains that there is a mastermind behind everything that has been going on, and that the guy wants to gang absolute control.

A strange box is brought into the meeting.

It's the head of a black tiger. It has a recorded message that it plays. It says a guy's radio chain will be attacked that night.

Lamont examines the recording cylinder that was in the head of the tiger.

Weston releases the crook, and Lamont follows him.

Lamont appears as Lin Chang, an underworld character.

Police show up and the crooks flee, and Lamont as Lin Chang is with them.

The crooks are going to plant the explosives.

Harry sneaks up on the guy staying there with Lin Chang.

The crooks' target.

They have an inside guy at the exhibit.

The Shadow enters the room and tells everyone to flee.

The crooks knock out the Shadow and the bulbs explode.

A preview of the next episode. This episode lasted about thirty minutes.

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