I was at Frank's house a few times and he did have 7 Shadows from the "Strasser" collection that I traded for. Surprisingly, The Creeping Death that he had graded a F-VF, I passed on, hands down. The Green color on the front cover almost looked in person like it was brownish (maybe sun faded or a poor color strike) and the book had a warped appearace to it, just something I cannot put a finger on.
I have 4 copies of The Creeping Death, but do not have a high grade one, even though I have high grade copies of about 99% of all the Shadows in the run...Hmm...have the original painting, but not a killer copy...a high grade one is certainly in my gunsights, as is a high grade #1 (mine is a VG- w. ow/w paper.)
Other than that, Frank really did not have alot of Shadows because he did not collect them (as a run anyway).
Dwight
I was partialy joking, as I remember you mentioned earlier that you had gotten some from him, but I am surprised it was only seven. I figured you had cleaned him out and that's why there were so few.
I noticed in looking for some of the lesser known REH books in titles like Spicy Adventure, Sport Story, Top Notch, etc. that they were often missing even though he had the surrounding issues. I'm wondering if it's coincidence or if one of the Howard collectors got to cherry pick them.