RARA-AVIS: Daly and the Shadow

From: Juri Nummelin ( jurnum@utu.fi)
Date: 23 May 2001


On Wed, 23 May 2001, George Upper wrote:

> I'm not sure about the Shadow and similar characters
> chronologically, but I tend to think of them as
> originating in the late 20s and early 30s.

The Shadow Magazine began in 1933 and he was the first masked hero, so Shadow has nothing to do with Daly of the birth of the private eye.

Juri

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