The Shadow's "Crime Fighter Detection Belt", created by Madson Industries in 1976, is considered one of the rarest Shadow toys of the post-pulp era. It was offered as a tie-in to the launch of DC Comics' fantastic series by Kaluta.
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| Inside the box. The blur on the flashlight is not in the piece. I seem to have appeared in the reflection! :) |
The website "Topless Robot" places it at the top of their list of "5 Worst Utility Belt Toys":
"The Shadow crime-fighting set falls in the worst list entirely due to its timing, for this wasn't released in his radio and pulp magazine heyday of the 1940s but in 1976, a year or so after DC comics failed to resurrect the character with a (pretty amazing) comic title. With almost zero media backing for over a generation, the question isn't so much "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men" as it is "Who the @#$% is the Shadow"? Fortunately, two decades later, the Alec Baldwin movie would open and engulf the world in "Shadow-mania"."Actually, the set is very well produced and the belt is great. The flashlight has a list of Morse codes altough the whistle is rather redundant -- I imagine that when faced with a criminal, you'd whistle for The Shadow to come and take care of things...
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