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Issue: The Shadow #5
Publication Date: January 1953
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Issues: #5 of 168 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFrew Publications
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 24
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: 8.0 pence GBQ 0-0-8
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Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour Cover; Black & White Interior
Dimensions: Approximately Standard U.S. Golden Age comic book size
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shadow
Character(s): The Shadow; a giant octopus
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Traps of Long Sam

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shadow
Character(s): The Shadow; Long Sam The Diamond King; Chan from the Singapore Police; Reena Randolph; her father
Synopsis: Once more The Shadow "happens" on a kidnapping. This time it is in "Singapore, the drug metropolis of the world...". Long Sam, an old foe, traps The Shadow and feeds him to a giant octopus.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shadow #137 published April 1964
as The Traps of Long Sam [Story on Interior Page(s)]with one page cut; with one page worth of content deleted
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: After 15 pages there is what amounts to the splash panel for a new chapter. However, other than a Shadow logo, there are no words to indicate that a new chapter begins.
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Wear The Phantom's Club Golden Stick-Pin

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Phantom
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Pages: 1

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