Margo Lane (Street & Smith)

Margo Lane

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Real Name

Margo Lane

Current Alias

Margo Lane

Identity

Public

Alignment

Good

Affiliation

Agent of The Shadow

Base Of Operations

New York

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Spy

Origin

Origin

Creators

Walter B. Gibson

First appearance

Last appearance

Shadow Comics #4

The Duende History of the Shadow Magazine

History

Margo Lane is the second female to be enlisted in The Shadow's crime fighting organization (see also: Myra Reldon).

Prior to joining The Shadow's network of agents, she met Lamont Cranston on a Caribbean cruise. Two days later, she ran into him again at a New York night club. Or, so she thought. She actually mistook the disguised Kent Allard for Cranston and assumed that he was the same man who was on the boat.

Eventually, The Shadow asked her to become an agent of his. Their relationship quickly evolved and she suspected that he was was only using "Lamont Cranston" as a disguise. He finally did confess to her that her hunch was correct, he and the wealthy world-traveler were the same. What Lane doesn't know is that The Shadow's true identity is Kent Allard, however, she and Allard have met on one occasion.

She usually mixes in with the high society crowd and becomes friendly with anyone involved with a crime which The Shadow is investigating.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation:

• She drives a coupe' (two-door vehicle).
  

Weapons:

• She routinely carries a .22 automatic in her handbag.
  

Notes

• Margo Lane's first "print" appearance was in the The Shadow newspaper strips, months before Walter B. Gibson finally relented to the publisher's pressure and included her in her first Shadow pulp novel, The Thunder King.

• Margo is privy to the secret phone number to reach contact-man Burbank.
  

Trivia

• Margo Lane and Myra Reldon only met once in the pulps, "The Devil Master," and once in the comics, also "The Devil Master."

• Margo's favorite drink is a Mirage cocktail.

See Also

• Appearances of Margo Lane (Street & Smith)
• Character Gallery: Margo Lane (Street & Smith)
• Quotations by Margo Lane (Street & Smith)
• Images that include Margo Lane (Street & Smith)

Links and References

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