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Issue: The Private Files of the Shadow #[nn]
Publication Date: April 1989
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/14/1989
Volume: none
Pages: 136
ISBN: 0930289374
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $24.95 CAD
$19.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Reprints The Shadow (DC, 1973 series) #1-4 and #6 and also contains one new story created for this book.

On-sale date from Direct Currents #13.

The creator credits have been removed from the reprinted stories' title pages. The stories have been recolored for this volume as well.

In addition to the art assistance by Bernie Wrightson, Stephen Hickman, and Howard Chaykin that are known, this volume credits Phil Trumbo and Mike Cody with assisting on the original issues.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Publishing Format: One-Shot; Collected Edition
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In3
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shadow #1 published September 1990
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagAll American Comics #13 published October 1990
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Into the Shadow

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Shadow
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Introduction with spot illustrations.
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The Doom Puzzle!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Character(s): Harry Vincent; Shrevvy; Osgood Bamber
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Shadow #1 published October 1973
was The Doom Puzzle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
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Freak Show Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Character(s): Benzare; Spidora [Margo Lane]; Damon (villain); Pythias (villain); Alhambra; Panchini; Ajax; Pop Sorber; Steve Kilroy; Milton Treft
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Shadow #2 published December 1973
was Freak Show Murders [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
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The Kingdom of the Cobra

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Character(s): Burbank; Tim O'Shaugnessy; Shrevvy; Harry Vincent; Warden Gibson Walters; King Cobra (villain)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Shadow #3 published February 1974
was The Kingdom of the Cobra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: In Back Issue magazine #10, Mike Kaluta gives pencil and ink credits to himself and Bernie Wrightson.
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Death Is Bliss!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Character(s): Shrevvy; Clancy; Burbank; Harry Vincent; Ambrose "Devil" Devlin (villain); Homer Bliss (villain); Natchez Nate Johnson
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Shadow #4 published April 1974
was Death Is Bliss! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Chapter 1 (10 pages), Chapter 2: "Grave Secret!" (10 pages).

In Back Issue magazine #10, Mike Kaluta says about the inking in this issue, "On the splash page to issue #4, there is a truck barreling across the page. The license plates on the front bumper of the truck have got each artist's name and little page numbers to tell what pages they worked on."
UPDATE: Per email directly from Mr. Kaluta, the dashes on the license plates do not mean "through". Only the specific pages listed were done by those artists.
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Night of the Ninja

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Character(s): Shrevvy; G. Oyle Proud (villain); Bartlett Mogen; Burbank; Harry Vincent
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Shadow #6 published August 1974
was Night of the Ninja [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
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In the Toils of Wing Fat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, informational
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shadow #1 published September 1990
as In den Schlingen des Wing Fat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: New story prepared for this volume.

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