The Shadow: Year One

Matt Wagner and Wilfredo Torres brought The Shadow back to his pulp-era roots for this 10-issue Dynamite series, chronicling the vigilante’s first year of operation. Set in the 1930s, it strips away later supernatural elements to ground the character in gritty, noir-inflected crime-fighting. With Wagner’s sharp scripting and Torres’s moody, period-accurate art, the run stands as a focused, character-driven origin story for one of pop culture’s most enduring mystery men.