The Shadow

Full-length electro-mechanical-style playfield shot head-on under glass, with visible reflections and a chrome lockdown bar and coin door at the foot. Art is a busy comic-book fantasy city collage in saturated red, teal, gold, purple and black. The upper-left quadrant is a purple panel studded with round red gem-like discs around a gold sunburst medallion, with cream city towers rising on a bright blue sky; across the upper middle and right a wireform ramp cage and steel ramps hang over a red aircraft and a cluster of tiny city buildings. A green sign with dark serif capitals on a pale banner reads THE BATTLEFIELD, and a large orange starburst sits below it. The centre of the field is dominated by a chrome-and-teal Greco-Roman temple facade with five arched black panels carrying small white lettering, in front of which sits a fat gold hot-rod car with a huge vertical chrome grille, two round white headlights and pale green fenders. Two painted heads flank it: on the left a grinning yellow-haired villain in a green-and-gold helmet and goggles, on the right a tan-faced man in a white fedora and dark glasses. Lower left and right bear matching green instruction blocks and diagonal white text, and the apron carries The Shadow in bright green cursive.

A painted backglass with a large central portrait of a dark-haired man in a black tuxedo jacket, white shirt and black bow tie, staring straight ahead with a hard, unblinking expression while holding up a clenched left fist displaying a gold ring set with a round red gem. Above him, in large slanted green brush-script with a heavy black drop shadow, is the title, with a small silhouetted figure of a man in a fedora and dark cloak perched above the lettering. A huge black-gloved hand sweeps in from the top right, fingers curled. Two arched, blue-framed window panels flank the central figure: the left arch holds a blonde woman in a white beaded flapper dress with a long white feather fan, standing on a staircase; the right arch holds a bearded man in an ornate sparkling silver headdress and veil, in dark blue and black. The background is a symmetrical blue Art Deco interior with stepped zigzag patterns, pale orange wall panels, two dark vases at the outer edges and a chequered floor strip. A green script logo with a purple artist signature sits lower right; small white print runs along both bottom corners.