I really love the cover to The Shadow magazine's July 15, 1935 edition. It features The Shadow front and center, but it also shows him in two of his disguises! The man on the left is Lamont Cranston, that is the primary disguise The Shadow uses in his pulp stories. The man on the right is Henry Arnaud, which is another great disguise used by The Shadow.
According to an article by Will Murray in the reprint of this Shadow magazine, "George Rozen's triple portrait cover was intended as a gift to the loyal readers who hungered for a Shadow pinup, for it depicted The Shadow and his two main identities."*
While Lamont Cranston is probably the more better known disguise of The Shadow, I was surprised that in a few stories, it is the Henry Arnaud disguise that The Shadow uses. For example, in Green Eyes and The Romanoff Jewels, Cranston is not mentioned at all while The Shadow opts for the Arnaud disguise.
This is a great cover and I'm sure fans appreciated it when it was first published!
*“INTERLUDE by Will Murray.” Atoms of Death and Buried Evidence: Two Classic Adventures of The Shadow, by Maxwell Grant et al., vol. 44, Sanctum Books, 2010.
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