#kent allard

[chernobog13]

Unseen Shadows, a portfolio of 50 cover concepts by Jim Steranko for paperbacks featuring The Shadow.

[maxwell-grant]

is this how people rediscover Kent Allard

[keyblack]

Drawings of "The Shadow" from some recent "Off the Cuff" episodes! You can check out my process for these here!

[strange-creature-in-black]

Mario Kart 9 roster

[twistedtummies2]

Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes - Number 4

Welcome to A Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes! During this month-long event, I’ve been counting down my Top 31 Favorite Fictional Detectives, from movies, television, literature, video games, and more!

We're nearing the end of this event, my friends.

SLEUTH-OF-THE-DAY’S QUOTE: “The Weed of Crime Bears Bitter Fruit.”

Number 4 is…The Shadow.

I’ve talked about the Shadow at least a few times in the past (more frequently than that with those closest to me), but for those who are unfamiliar with the character and his world, here’s the basics: the Shadow is a character many consider to be the father of the modern superhero. Several famous “super detectives” take inspiration from the character, either directly or indirectly: most famously, the Shadow was a major inspiration for none other than the Dark Knight himself, Batman. However, his influence can also be seen in characters like the Punisher, Daredevil, various Alan Moore creations (such as Rorschach and V from V for Vendetta), and even freaking Darkwing Duck!

The Shadow was originally created as the narrator/host for a series of crime and horror radio dramas sponsored by a company called Street & Smith. The character became so popular, the company decided to expand on the concept, and began to publish a pulp magazine focused on the character and his adventures. Writer and illusionist expert Walter B. Gibson – working under the pseudonym “Maxwell Grant” – developed the character accordingly. Gibson decided he wanted to create "a hero who had some of the villain's appeal," citing that villains were usually more interesting than typical heroic protagonists. Taking inspiration from his knowledge of stagecraft and the occult, as well as various pieces of classic literature - including Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, and The Scarlet Pimpernel - Gibson turned the ephemeral narrator figure into a "weird avenger of evil," arguably just as scary as the crooks he fought.

Such was effectively the birth of the Shadow as a fully-formed character. This version got his start in the pulp magazines, most of which were written by Gibson. He was later reimagined for a new radio program, and since then has appeared in a few movies (the most well-known being the 1994 feature starring Alec Baldwin). However, the character – originally created in the 1930s – has survived most prominently via comics. The current company with the rights to the character in comic format is Dynamite Entertainment, but the Shadow has also belonged to DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse at different points in his long career.

The Shadow’s true identity is “wealthy young man-about-town” Lamont Cranston (at least in the radio shows and all the film treatments; the comics and pulps are more complicated). By day, Cranston is a laid-back member of New York City’s elite. However, this demeanor hides a dark side, created by an even darker past: once upon a time, the man who would become the Shadow was a fighter pilot in WWI. His plane crashed in Tibet during a mission, and he was presumed killed in action. Different interpretations of his origins change up what happened next, but one thing is consistent: for the next seven years, he lived in Tibet, and during that time he experienced “all the evil that lurks in the hearts of men.” He eventually met a mystic known as the Tulku, who not only taught him martial-arts, but also gave him the ability to “Cloud Men’s Minds.” With his newfound skills, he returned to New York and became the Shadow: forever bound to an immortal quest to destroy evil.

The Shadow's power to “Cloud Men’s Minds” is less pretentiously described as him having various psychic abilities. He can project illusions, hypnotize people, control their minds, and make himself seem invisible (or, appropriately, like a living shadow), just to name a few examples of his talents. However, while these abilities are certainly useful ones, the Shadow is also skilled in other, more traditional fields: he is a fine marksman, as skilled with his dual-wielding silver-plated pistols as he is with a rifle or machine gun. His learning of the martial arts makes him a skilled melee warrior, and he has at least some knowledge of various sciences (how much varies from version to version) and forensic techniques. The Shadow is also aided by a veritable army of Agents: people he has saved in the past who now do his bidding, acting as his eyes and ears. Probably the most noteworthy are Margot Lane (a glamorous young lady who is his love interest), Harry Vincent (the Shadow’s chief spy, who really only shows up in printed material), and Moe “Shrevvy” Shrevnitz (a cabby who is essentially the Shadow’s chauffeur).

The most interesting point about the Shadow, and where his character’s development shines most intriguingly, is his morality: the Shadow is an objectivist character, who acts as an agent of vengeance against all wrongdoers, no matter the mitigating circumstances. Some would say this is inaccurate, but I would say the Shadow best counts as an anti-hero. He sees the world often in black and white, and obsessively and downright SADISTICALLY faces his opponents. He delights in taunting them with purple prose, laughing as he leads them to destruction, and is often just as frightening as the villains he defeats. Under the surface, there is a soft side to his soul…but if you’re a supervillain, a gangster, or anyone else who might cross his path, start praying.

“For who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows! HA HA HA!”

Tomorrow, the countdown enters the Top 3!

CLUE: “It is the brain, the little grey cells, on which one must rely.”

[wingedtyger]

Comics I recently added to the GCD: The Shadow Annual 2013

Added the series and indexed it. Actually wrote a decent summary of it too.

[asylumdisorder]

The Shadow, on his way to teach the children what evil truly lurks within the hearts of men

[ultrameganicolaokay]

The Shadow #8 ‘The Night of the Mummy!’ (1974) by Denny O'Neil, Frank Robbins and Jerry Serpe. Edited by O'Neil. Cover by Robbins and Tatjana Wood.

The Shadow issue 8, Dec-Jan 1974

Frank Robbins Cover Art

[dzthenerd490]

Please do The Shadow! I would like the Foundation talking about his Girasol Ring, his psychic abilities including mind reading, mind control, perception distortion, and turning invisible or the way he puts it 'to cloud men's minds.'

Be sure to include his vigilantism, his urban legend of a shadowy protector and his network of agents on his side.

I love him so much and it will be neat to see him in scp foundation ❤️❤️❤️

Oh! And make sure he's Kent Allard, got it?

I MIGHT do so in the future, but for now, the answer is no. Sorry.

[oldschoolcrimefighters]

I just want to let you know that I was part of a Call of Cthulhu campaign (it's on hiatus, sadly) that takes place in the 1930s. So me being the nerd I am, made my character a pilot and named him after Miles Crofton and Kent Allard.

His name is Miles Allard. His nickname is Duck. I really miss playing him.

Neat! Sad that the game is on hiatus, I know that pain all too well T.T That seems like a solid character concept, and I like 'Duck' better as a nickname/callsign than Eagle, seems way more like a nickname someone would actually get from his pals lol. (Also I knew there was a pun there somewhere but it took me five minutes after posting this to finally put it together. M Allard. I love it.)

I haven't played CoC myself yet but I did recently play Achtung Cthulhu (ww2 and more of a pulp-thriller vibe than a horror vibe) as a pregen who I played as Basically Hawkeye

(My worst-kept ttrpg secret is that 90% of my long-term characters start as reskinned blorbos. ...I might add onto this with a very long art-filled ramble about some of them. There's at least two inspired by Hawkeye, two Shadows, and one Clyde Burke.)

[chernobog13]

The Shadow swore that, as soon as he got himself free, Spider-Man was going to pay dearly!

From George Rozen's cover for The Shadow (vol. 1) #37 (September, 1933), The Grove of Doom.

[maxwell-grant]

Sorry, I see you already answered that question in 2021, found that post.

My new question is: what is “the shadow”?

(Art by Dan Schkade)

“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows…” The maxim that the weed of crime bears bitter fruit, intoned at the start of every program, was biblical in its sternness. The Shadow was an Old Testament avenger, a ruthless slayer of the wicked, very befitting the Depression decade of his greatest strength. The Shadow was both the force for good and lurker in the darkness. - The Shadow Scrapbook

The Shadow, also known as The Master of Darkness, The Dark Avenger, The Master of Men's Minds, Weird Creature of the Night, Identity Theft Georg, That Guy Who Lives in Lamont Cranston's House, "Shads" and other many names, is a mysterious figure who fights evil by turning it against itself. He is a former globetrotting aviator-spy-soldier (revealed to be named Kent Allard, 7 years into the character's run) turned crimefighting paladin who fights to protect and uplift the innocent and bring justice to victims of strife and calamity, and he does so with the black-clad design, domineering charisma, sinister cackle, Machievellian theatrics and ruthless efficiency of a villain.

In action, The Shadow loomed as a cloaked figure, materializing from out of the night, rescuing helpless victims and striking terror into the hearts of evildoers. However, he reserved such theatrics for a logical climax. Between times, The Shadow proved himself a master of deduction as well as disguise.

While his major missions were to stamp out mobs or smash spy rings, he often tabled such routines in order to find a missing heir, uncover buried treasure, banish a ghost from a haunted house or oust a dictator from a mythical republic. The Shadow was such an incredible character in his own right that almost anything he encountered was accepted by his ardent followers. - Walter Gibson

The Shadow began life as the spooky narrator of publisher Street & Smith's radio program, whose sibilant, mocking personality and sinister cackle were dramatically more interesting than any of the programs he was narrating, and so when listeners started asking Street & Smith for a Shadow Magazine that did not exist, they had to make one of their own. To that end, they recruited a young magician turned newspaper writer and former associate of Houdini's fraud-busting network, Walter Gibson, to write the adventures. Gibson was extremely acquainted with the ins and outs of illusionism and sleight-of-hand and worked personally with many of the greatest magicians at the time, and would extensively use said knowledge in crafting The Shadow's character and adventures.

And so The Shadow Magazine began, reviving the "hero pulp" format that had died out in the pre-WW1 dime novels and redefining the mold of crimefighting "pulp heroes" from that decade onwards, as well as many superheroes from that time period inspired by him and his successors. He is currently more famous for being plagiarized by the chief inspiration for a certain guy who runs around with bat ears and for his general role as a highly influential forerunner and influence in forms of storytelling still extensively used today.

On the taxonomical chart of Western comics he’s a common ancestor for a sizeable chunk of the marketplace. Every street vigilante, every masked crime-fighter, every necessary monster: he’s in the DNA of them all. A living fossil, a coelacanth or goblin-shark for the comics world, swimming in waters of ice and ink - Si Spurrier

The Shadow maintained a fluctuating radio career over the 1930s to go along with his highly successful magazine, and he'd eventually reach newfounds heights of stardom from 1937 onwards thanks to the debut of a new radio show, initially starring Orson Welles in the titular role. Said radio show would become an audience hit well into the 1940s and would introduce new fixtures to the character such as friend-and-companion Margo Lane and an invisibility superpower, which were eventually integrated since into the comics and pulps and other media. You can still easily find many of the character's radio adventures online as well as his exploits in comics and pulps (harder to find now, but still possible if you know where to look). I'll pass along my personal recommendations here.

(Art from Matt Wagner's The Curse of Blackbeard Skull, in The Shadow #100)

In the taxonomical history of American crimefighters he sits in between the hardboiled detectives of the 1920s and the 1940s superheroes, and although the 1930s pulp heroes were in part defined largely by imitating him, he is no traditional square-jawed do-gooder: he is a tall, gaunt, cadaverous wraith with the mask of a Western bandit and a vampire's cloak and the clothes of 19th-century cartoons of saboteurs and anarchist bombers. The barest glimpse of the man beneath is that of a judgemental patrician's aquiline nose and intense, sharp eyes, like icepicks probing the back of your skull. He makes a point to show every now and then how easily he can reshape that face to suit his needs, and make it your own, even doing so in front of you to make a point.

He is Dracula meets King Arthur, Sherlockian brainpower and Lupin trickery joined forces, centerpiece to urban thrillers turned into fairytales as The Big Bad Wolf switches sides to save us. Though his setting looks the part, The Shadow is no gritty film noir creature: he is what happens when the cutthroat gangsters and invincible spymasters and predatory businessmen behind it all meet the actual scariest guy around: Death itself, as the ultimate master and servant joined in one, who found a higher calling fighting for us instead, breaking and bending and controlling the rules and tipping them ever so slightly in the favor of those who are usually in no position to fight back.

(Art by Giovanni Timpano, for The Shadow #25)

As we discussed The Shadow, I suggested an opening scene with a cloaked figure emerging from a night fog to prevent a desperate young man from taking a suicide plunge from a high bridge. Thus befriended, the young man would swear loyalty to his rescuer and thereby become involved in exciting adventures with otherp persons who had been aided by the same benefactor, all being united in a common cause against crime. - Walter Gibson

That is where the Agents come in. As The Shadow is a distant living puzzlebox, we are very rarely privy to his thoughts and feelings, he glides through many stories scarcely-seen until he needs to be, and so we frequently experience things from the viewpoint of proxies, whether they are agents or characters swept into intrigue that only The Shadow can save them from. The first Shadow story opens up with a broke and depressed young man named Harry Vincent, ruined by the Great Depression reality of the time and trying to commit suicide, who is saved from it by The Shadow, and upon accepting a new purpose in life as his agent, grows into a dependable and strong ally, friend and even leader to people once like him over the course of the following adventures.

Across his history The Shadow has had agents and allies among all walks of life: redeemed/pretend criminals who use their reputations to provide The Shadow with inside knowledge, war vets, police officers, prison reformists, troublemaking journalists, government agents, politicians, criminologists, psychologists, high society chameleons, streetwise cabbies, janitors, the homeless, even crooks who once worked for those that The Shadow opposed, with some stories dedicated entirely to The Shadow playing guardian angel or working to provide second chances to those who've turned to crime. Community leaders with opposing viewpoints, rebel spies, prostitutes, historical figures such as Amelia Earhart and Nikola Tesla, robots, political activists and freedom fighters, doctors, birds, boxers, actors, magicians, beavers, and a list too big to get into here. There was a crimefighting dog at some point also and he was a very good boy.

Said list also includes the guy most people initially assume is his secret identity, a wealthy globetrotting man-about-town named Lamont Cranston. The first on-screen meeting between The Shadow and his secret identity Lamont Cranston consisted of The Shadow showing up in the dark at Cranston's bedside, wearing his face and telling him in pristine detail how much he's usurped Cranston's life, and effectively blackmailing him into leaving town so he can continue being Cranston uninterrupted. It is considerably less known, however, that eventually Cranston and The Shadow became weird friends following this ordeal and worked together several times, with Cranston turning out to be a pretty entertaining hero in his own right even besides his designated purpose of being rich and useless, even he was not immune to The Shadow's ability to enact positive change on his allies. Which is one note I'll end this post on: that The Shadow and his surroundings can be a lot more layered than given credit for.

I make the argument again and again that The Shadow is an intriguing character with much more to him than simply the gun violence and spooky laughter and murderousness that he's frequently reduced to, even if he isn't quite consistently so (as expected of one who's been around in virtually every medium for over 90 years). He can be compassionate, thoughtful, cautious and consequence-minded in his approach to effectively combat crime and protect others, ridiculous, eccentric, flawed in ways big and small and humanizing, for better or worse depending on who's writing him. He is a versatile shapeshifter as well as an unassailable force of personality to throw into any gathering, any circumstance, any narrative, and remain unique.

(Art by Michael Kaluta, from Hell's Heat Wave)

With those other “masked avenger” pulp types, their masked identities are an act, at least in part. Underneath the hat and mask they are regular guys with relatable motivations. With the Shadow, the guy in the hat and scarf IS the real guy, and his motivations and feelings are largely kept from us.

When we see him in his “civilian” identity, THAT is an act. So there’s a kind of brutal simplicity to his dialogue.

He is what he appears to be, and says exactly what he means. - Chris Roberson

And that's about it as a summary. I have a masterpost pinned at the top because, evidently, I have a lot more to say about the character and more I can't cover here. If you want, feel free to shoot me any additional questions and let me work out my fixation on the weird crime spooky murder man. I have to go off about him at least once a month or else I start eating my furniture so, help me out here.

[8crimson]

My Superhero team #4

The Question- Vic Sage, reporter, detective, and conspiracy nut.

Powers and tools: Intellect, investigation, journalism, unarmed combat, and acrobatics. Wears a mask made of the material "pseudoderm" which can only be removed with a special "binary gas" that is also used as a smokescreen.

first appearance: Blue Beetle (1967) #1

The Spirit- Denny Colt, private investigator, criminologist, and pretend-dead person.

Powers: Intellect, investigation, athletics, unarmed combat, and longevity.

first appearance: "The Origin of The Spirit"

The Shadow- Kent Allard, spy, aviator, legend.

Powers and tools: Intellect, spycraft, hypnosis, jujutsu, and master of disguise. Girasol Ring used as a focus for his hypnotic abilities. Arms himself with a pair of Clot .45s.

first appearace: Detective Story Hour

Night Thrasher- Dwayne Taylor, vigilante, leader, and skateboard enthusiast.  

Powers and tools: Enegineering, acute computer literacy, acrobatics, and, maritial arts. Wears a light weight bulletproof, fireproof, and knifeproof armored suit geared with cloaking tech. Along with a helemet with multi-vision goggles, breathing apparatus, voice scrambler, and other accoutrements. Gauntlets that could fire pepper spray and sleeping gas. Main weapon of choice is a pair of Escrima sticks. Uses a high tech armored fiberglass skateboard to get around.

first appearance: Mighty Thor #411

Knight Watchman- Reid Randall, seasoned hero, widower, and fashion designer.

Powers and tools: Olympic-level athlete, martial arts, ninjutsu and investigation. Known to use night-sticks.

first appearance: Berzerker #1

Artemis-Jacky Bouchard, P.I., day walker, master barista.

Powers and tools: Investigation, gunplay, supernatural strength, mesmerizing gaze (magnified through drinking blood), and mist transformation. Known to use handguns or advanced tasers called "E-lasers".

first appearance: Wearing the cape

ShadowHawk-Eddie Collins, vigilante, legacy, teenager.

Powers and tools: Unarmed Combat. Wears a helmet known as Nommo which holds the spirits of all the previous ShadowHawks, and grants him a suit. The suit provides enhanced strength, speed, agility, and stamina; along with metamorphic weapon and tool manifestation.

first appearance: New Man #4

[jurjenkvanderhoek]

HET LICHT ZOEKEN EN VINDEN

Het is dat de tijd stil staat. Niet alsof, of dat het aldus lijkt. Het is zo. De tijd staat stil. Het is vandaag, het wordt geen morgen en gisteren is geweest. Voor de mens Allard Elout is dit de waarheid. Zijn werk blijft actueel, daarvoor is het eeuwig vandaag. Welhaast op de kop af 34 jaar geleden betrad ik op tientallen meters afstand de expositieruimte van Museum Willem van Haren. En nu loop ik de zaal in wat ooit Kunstruimte was en Museum Galerie Heerenveen is genoemd. Toen viel ik stil en dat overkomt mij nu weer. De daar toen en vandaag weer opgehangen schilderijen dwingen tot een moment van geruisloos afwachten. Wat ik destijds in de Heerenveense Courant deed afdrukken, kan ik nu bijna letterlijk op het weblog Kunststukjes publiceren. “Gefixeerd op de beelden totdat de schijnbaar steriele en onpersoonlijke vormen zich van het doek losmaken en in een waterval van glasgerinkel over de bezoeker heen storten.” 

De in 2016 overleden Elout leeft voort in zijn werk. De kunstwereld vergat hem niet. Postuum bezit Allard een plaats in de Friese scene zoals hij dat bij leven had. Zijn kunst is ook nu nog actueel en kent in aandacht en afwerking nauwelijks een gelijke. In dat werk stapt hij tegen beter weten in uit het donker. Het werkstuk waarmee hij met goed gevolg Vredeman de Vries kon verlaten is in deze tentoonstelling bijgehangen. Het toont een duistere welhaast abstracte omgeving in zwart en wit. Het fotografische beeld is op linnen gedrukt. Elout zal zich vaak zo gevoeld hebben zoals hij in dat werk er uitdrukking aan geeft. Pessimistisch over wat buiten het atelier en het woonhuis om hem heen gebeurt. De toestand in de wereld baart hem zorgen. Om daar een antwoord op te hebben bleef hij niet hangen in droefgeestigheid en zwartkijkerij. Na de academie zocht hij het licht.

Die open blik vond hij onder meer in goa-trance. Een muziekstijl waarmee je kunt mediteren en jij je in jezelf keert, in gedachten bent. Op Wikipedia lees ik daarover: “De nummers proberen geleidelijk aan de energie op te bouwen door middel van veranderingen in de percussiepatronen en steeds meer gecompliceerde en gelaagde synthesizergeluiden, melodieën en harmonieën, om zo een hypnotisch, euforisch en intens gevoel te creëren.” In die extase laat de kunstenaar de wereld achter zich, of beter onder zich daar hij in hoger sferen geraakt, en vindt vanuit de donkerte het licht. Die opgetogenheid klinkt door in zijn werk. 

“Van alle kanten straalt en bestraalt een schijnsel de vormen”, citeer ik mijzelf uit de recensie daterend van 7 maart 1990, “kiert ertussen door, terwijl de lichtbron zelf niet in beeld wordt gebracht. De vlakken bollen en rondingen ontstaan onder druk van contrasten. (…) De in pasteltinten gezette nevelsferen, alsof boven de wolken een nieuwe aarde geschapen is, zijn tegenstrijdig met de strakke begrenzingen van de overlappende vormen. Langs elkaar schuivende glasramen, spiegelingen zonder spiegelbeeld.” De tegennatuurlijke schaduwwerking maakt de intentie van het werk mysterieus en onbeschrijfelijk boeiend. De composities zijn gelaagd opgezet, dun en ijl over elkaar gepenseeld. Zo zodat er diepte ontstaat in het platte vlak. Het verdient uiterste concentratie, in maken zowel als in bekijken. Er is een magnetisch veld gecreëerd waarnaar mijn blik getrokken wordt. Mijn ogen kleven figuurlijk aan de verbeelding.

“In een bevlieging na ongestoorde meditatie verschijnen geestelijk beelden uit een vergeten landschap en worden moeizaam verwerkt tot tastbare impressies. De vormen zijn zo transparant als glas, maar vervormen voor het oog tot compacte gehelen. Nadat op het netvlies een bepaalde impressie staat ingebrand blijken de verzonden beeldgolven alweer andere standpunten in te houden. Aldoor speelt de vorm en de lijn een nieuw spel met de kijker. (…) Onder de denkbeeldige huid gaat een filosofie schuil, waarin in de uiteindelijke werkelijkheid de visie op heden en verleden, begin en eind, yin en yang, zijn en niet zijn verborgen ligt onder de diverse voorbewerkingslagen. Het karakter van het werk wordt daardoor bepaald, zoals de mens wordt gevormd door zijn geschiedenis.”

Bij de tentoonstelling is als een soort van catalogus een kleine werkmap te koop. Daarin verantwoord de kunstenaar zijn leven en werken, dat door kenners ‘poëtisch constructivistisch’ is genoemd. Elout is een dichter in zijn transparant abstracte schilderijen die zijn geconstrueerd rond geometrische vormen. Maar vooral zoekt hij daarin het licht. Hoe hij dat lichte punt aan het eind van de donkere tunnel heeft gevonden staat beschreven. Waardoor hij inspiratie vond en vanuit welke bron hij zijn composities liet ontstaan. Een playlist van ateliermuziek, waarbij Allard de rust vond om te werken, vindt een plek in de map. En de mate van verlichting door kunstlicht om bij te werken in het atelier. Om de kleurweergave op zijn schilderijen zo natuurgetrouw over te laten komen. Zelfs kan ik nu eenzelfde situatie bij mij thuis inrichten. Met dezelfde lichtsterkte, dezelfde muziek en de geur van olieverf, copal en damar. Sluit ik mijn ogen zie ik Allard werken achter zijn ezel met op het palet bergjes verf in pastelkleuren. 

“Het licht straalt degene tegemoet die de moeite neemt het licht daadwerkelijk symbolisch te ontsteken.”

“Inspiratie en worsteling”. Werken van Allard Elout in tentoonstelling bij Museum Galerie Heerenveen, Mickelersstraat 11 in Heerenveen. 28 januari tot en met 10 maart 2024.

[strange-creature-in-black]

various ideas drawn out

I may have read at least 1 pulp story possibly, can't recall

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

A Shadow Falls Over Gotham.

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/04tpDrn by MateusCristian For years, the criminals of Gotham deemed the shadows of the great metropolis safe, where the law and retribution would never reach them. But they were wrong. For the shadows began to laugh at their evil, and justice will be served by The Shadow. Words: 2115, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, The Shadow (Pulp) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con Categories: Multi Characters: Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle, Kent Allard | The Shadow, Talia al Ghul, Ra's al Ghul, Damian Wayne, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Dick Grayson, Jim Gordon, Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Hugo Strange, Jonathan Crane, Victor Fries, Nora Fries, Victor Zsasz, Edward Nygma, Oswald Cobblepot, Pamela Isley, Bane (DCU), Clayface, Joker (DCU), Harleen Quinzel, Margo Lane, Moe "Shrevvy" Shrevnitz, Burbank (The Shadow), Original Lamont Cranston, Harry Vincent, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Diana (Wonder Woman), Wally West Relationships: Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne, Talia al Ghul/Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson, Joker (DCU)/Harleen Quinzel Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Film Noir, Action/Adventure, Superheroes, Pulp, Drama & Romance read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/04tpDrn