Question about the image of the Shadow from 1931... 0

[Hibou]

Hopefully there are some "Shadow Experts" here that can help me understand this...

It's my understanding that Street & Smith held a contest in their Detective Story Magazines in 1931 to come up with an image of The Shadow.  Based on the December 1931 issue of The Shadow Detective Monthly Magazine, that image came close to what we've all come to know and love and then in March of 1932, the common attributes of the Shadow came together at once on the cover of the Shadow Detective Monthly Magazine.

The HC book from Street & Smith, The Living Shadow, which reprinted the April 1931 issue of the Shadow Detective Monthly, is from 1931 as well.

Where did that image come from for the cover?!

 

 

 

 

[OtherEric]

The Shadow book was copyright 1931, since that was the copyright on the original story.  It was actually published later, ISFDB says 1933.

[Hibou]

On 4/17/2024 at 12:15 AM, OtherEric said:

The Shadow book was copyright 1931, since that was the copyright on the original story.  It was actually published later, ISFDB says 1933.

Thank you so much! That would explain the April 1st, 1933 issue.