The Private Files of the Shadow (1989)

Dennis O'Neil and Michael Kaluta's 1973 DC run, collected in The Private Files of the Shadow (1989) The Shadow as the pulps imagined him: a cloaked, gun-blazing phantom cutting through 1930s gangland, with none of the superhero polish later comics added. Kaluta's elegant, finely detailed drawing is the attraction, and although DC's series ran twelve issues, he drew only five of them. This 1989 hardcover gathers those five, issues 1 to 4 and 6, plus a new fifteen-page Kaluta story, "In the Toils of Wing Fat." Look to secondhand dealers for it, but it is the cleanest way to get the definitive comics Shadow on the shelf.