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Lot # 354: 1930s The Shadow Blue Coal Radio Premium Cape

Category: Comics

Starting Bid: $500.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "June 2004",
which ran from 5/25/2004 12:00 AM to
5/31/2004 9:00 PM



The Holy Grail of radio premiums. Real cloth cape is just like the one that would have been worn by Lamont Cranston and his alter ego The Shadow. This brilliant character created by Walter B. Gibson under the penname Maxwell Grant, The Shadow was one of the most popular and without a doubt one of the coolest from radio’s golden days of the 1930s. Popularized in the pulp magazines and then onto the radio waves and voiced at one time by boy wonder Orson Welles. Sponsored by Blue Coal, the verso of the cape sports a beautifully screened image of the “The Shadow” in swirling mysterious smoke logo with “Blue Coal” inside the fair if the final “W.” The cape also sports a blue collar to match the name of the sponsor. In like new condition, this is other only we knew know to exist. Unused and NRMT and is a full sized cape that can be worn.

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