Lamont Cranston

You have paid for your crimes against a profession which conferred upon you the mantle of honor.

Against a great sanitarium and a great man of medicine who trusted and befriended you.

Against helpless humanity you were trained to save, not kill.

You have paid for this, final cowardice.

Yes, dead.

And may heaven have mercy on his soul.

I'd like to read you briefly a part of a letter typical of those received from customers using blue coal and John Barkley service.

I quote, I want to tell you how courteous your John Barkley representative was and the wonderful results I've been getting since adhering to his advice.

Since using blue coal and doing just as we were advised by your young man...

We are getting steady, real heat and would not use any other but your blue coal.

Unquote.

And don't forget, friend, no matter what kind of fuel you use or what your heating problem, your blue coal dealer will always be glad to help you.

So feel free to call on him.

He'll place an expert John Barclay serviceman at your disposal.

I thank you.

The shadow, the serious character who devotes his life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town, student of science, and master of other people's minds.

Using advanced methods that may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies, Cranston is known to criminals and evildoers as the Shadow.

Never seen, only heard.

As haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost.

As inevitable as a guilty conscience.