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Shade 3

SHADE #3

Cover Date: June 1997
Cover Price: $2.25

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Cover Credits:
Art: Tony Harris (signed)


Story: "The Shade Book Three : The Spider: 1951" (22 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJames Robinson
ArtBret Blevins
LetteringChris Eliopoulos
ColorsPat Garrahy
Color separationsDigital Chameleon
EditingChuck Kim

Feature Character(s):

Shade (in 1951 and 1952, see Comments)

Guest Star(s):

Flash I (last in Flash Special #1/2; next in Flash Vol. 2 #233/2)

Villain(s):

Ludlows
Spider (in 1951 thru 1952; following flashback in Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #9; revealed to be a Ludlow; dies)
Fiddler (in 1951)
Thinker (in 1951)

Guest Appearance(s):

Captain X of the RAF (in brief flashback to 1940)
Joan Garrick (next in Flash Vol. 1 #123/Secret Origins Vol. 2 #50/2)

Other Character(s):

Linda Dalt (first appearance, a reporter in 1952, later mother to The Spider's children)
Surpriser (first appearance; in 1952, a former villain mutilated by The Spider)

Comment(s):

Chronological analysis of Jay Garrick's appearances after All-Star Comics #57 would indicate that this story occurs after his appearance before the HUAC in late 1950.


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Second Story: "From the Shade's Journal" (2 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJames Robinson

Feature Character(s):

Shade (undated, but probably after the events in the last two entries in the journal)

Villain(s):

The Devil

Other Character(s):

An unnamed Ludlow (first appearance)

Comment(s):

This is an entry in the Shade's journal relating events that occurred in Iceland in some period after 1912. It is continued in the next issue.


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