Origin
After Jimmy Gray inherited the vast fortune of his father, safe manufacturer “silver” Gray people were disappointed when he devoted himself proving himself to be the most useless playboy in Australia.
However unknown to anyone Jimmy was really leading a triple life, the one everyone knew as Jimmy Gray playboy millionaire, but also secretly as Limpy Olsen former second story man who had to cut back on his thievery due, so he said, to his having broken his leg while trying to break into a house to rob, but still a well known and liked member of the criminal underworld, and after donning either a tux or white dinner jacket, and a pair of black gloves and a black latex rubber mask, The Shadow, the World’s Greatest Crime Buster.
Hunted by both the police and the underworld he used the information he gathered as Limpy, and using the resources he had as Jimmy The Shadow was able to become an effective instrument of justice.