For many years it was believed that the syndicated \"Goodrich\" series had run for 15 episodes. Welles played the dual role in 19, first for 26 episodes for the show's long-running sponsor Blue Coal, then for a summer series sponsored by Goodrich Safety Silver-Town Tires. The program, loosely adapted from the popular pulp magazine series, told the story of Lamont Cranston, a wealthy young man-about-town who used his hypnotic powers to cloud men's minds so that they could not see him, fighting crime as an Invisible Avenger known only as The Shadow. But before a certain well-documented Martian Invasion rocketed him to fame and a contract with RKO, a 22 year-old Orson Welles funded his theatrical productions with radio work, including a year on the Mutual Network's now-legendary \"superhero\" radio program The Shadow. It doesn't happen that often that a cultural icon plays a \"genre\" role, and in the 1930's it probably happened even less. 33 radio recordings of RKO's The Shadow, recorded as main character by Orson Welles between 19
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