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Cover: Bill Sienkiewicz
The Shadow #5
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Part five of "Shadows and Light" arrives in December 1987, and Bill Sienkiewicz's cover makes an immediate impression — the Shadow, dressed in black with his signature hat, surges upward through a crushing wave of grasping, desperate figures bathed in deep crimson. The composition conveys a man fighting against overwhelming odds, surrounded on all sides yet refusing to be swallowed by the chaos. Andy Helfer and Sienkiewicz's mature-readers series continues to push the boundaries of what a pulp hero's world can look like on the comics page.
writer Andy Helfer · artist, inker Sienkiewicz · colorist Richmond Lewis · letterer Bob Lappan · cover Bill Sienkiewicz
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writer Andy Helfer
artist, inker Sienkiewicz
colorist Richmond Lewis
letterer Bob Lappan
cover pencils, inks Bill Sienkiewicz
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Reprinted in Batman #14 (1988), La Sombra #5 (1991), The Shadow #3 (1991)
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