The Shadow Radio Classics Set Of 4 Cassette Tapes Drawn From the pages of a pulp Magazine, The Shadow First Materialized as an eerie radio announcer on Street Smith's Detective Story Hour, introducing stories about more conventional detectives. The Shadow became the surprise hit of the show. In 1931, Walter Gibson was hired to write a Shadow novel. Under the house name name of "Maxwell Grant", Gibson Wrote 283 Shadow pulp novels. On September 26, 1937, the shadow made his radio debut starring 22 year old Orson Welles as the Shadow and Agnes Moorehead as Margo Lane. The series was one of the most popular in the history of radio, thrilling and chilling the airwaves until December 26, 1954. Here for your listening pleasure are 8 original radio broadcasts of Americas most famous mystery man.