- Also The Shadow (from the radio) makes an appearance in "Angel Square" a children's novel by Brian Doyle (published by Groundwood Books, 1986). Set during the post World War II era in Ottawa, Canada, the story follows a young boy named Tommy who enjoys listening to his hero, The Shadow, on the radio. Even his nickname among friends is "Lamont Cranston". When his best friend's father is assaulted by a masked man, Tommy plays amatuer slueth (much like Lamont) to solve the mystery. Meanwhile, he tries to earn some money for Christmas presents, and attempts to win the affections of his new classmate named Margo Lane. The radio show "The Devil Takes a Wife" is featured in an early chapter.

The movie version of the book was released in Canada in 1990, and was directed by Anne Wheeler. In this case, The Shadow was replaced by a fictional radio crimefighter with psychic powers, called "The Mystic", and the Margo Lane character was renamed "Loretta Wood".

- Who would've thought. In the textbook, Discover Geometry: An Inductive Approach, by Michael Serra (published by Key Curriculum Press, 1997 ), there is a chapter entitled "The Shadow Knows" (page 606, continued onto 607). It deals with shadows and how they would relate to the objects that form them.

- Also in the book Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell The Shadow is talked about in it. The book is about a series of murders that take place in New York (lovely topic!) and it centers around this maverick cop called Kathy Mallory. Her foster father Louis Markovitz(also a cop) is one of the murder victims and it's about how she tries to find the killer. The book explores how
Kathy and Louis used to listen to the Shadow together on rainy days, and one of her main suspects- called Jonathon Gaynor- is in a play about the Shadow. She follows him and watches his dress rehersal and it brings back all the memories...! The Shadow isn't a huge feature in the book but it's important and adds to the atmosphere etc... (Thanks to Jenni Bird for the above info)

- On the June 30, 1997 issue of Disney Adventures. The Shadow was spotted in a comparision of superheroes. This issue covered the new Batman movie (the 4th in the series) and included a history on the character and a look back on other super heroes on theTV and big screen.

- Codes, ciphers & other cryptic & clandestine communication :
making and breaking secret messages from hieroglyphs to the Internet by Fred B Wrixon has two sections dealing with the codes from The Shadow's Novels.

On page 179 - 180 has two ciphers from the story Chain of Death and on page 187 - 189 has a cipher from The Man from Scotland Yard. This is pretty good for a scholarly work that was very well reviewed in 1993's Booklist. 704 pages of data and three codes from The Shadow! The book covers the entire history of Codes and Ciphers.

An example is the two part cipher from one of the novels in which each character is made up of two line graphics. The graphics combign with 1/2 of the previous character's to form a unique, and rather difficult to solve, cipher. The other one is a cipher in which there are several symobls that tell which way to turn the paper so the code shifts perspective as the encipherment continues.

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