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Real Name: Richard "Dick" Swift
Group: Injustice Society, Injustice Unlimited
First Appearance: Flash Comics #33
(September, 1942)

"You were right to be afraid, too, my boy. My power isn't merely creating illusion from shadow. I make things manifest. Terrors, whole and hearty." - The Shade

Dickie Swift, alias the Shade, is a reformed supervillain. Originally an enemy of the Justice Society, he became an ally of Starman after he settled in Opal City.

In Earth-Two, the Shade was a common thief of unknown identity who could manipulate the shadows with his cane. He fought both incarnations of the Flash, Jay Garrick and Barry Allen. Initially a loner villain, he became a later member of the Injustice Society. In his first public crime, Shade and his henchmen blanketed all Keystone City, Jay Garrick's city, in total darkness, in an event ironically named Black Friday. In this appearance, Shade had long hair and used a big device, not his cane, to cause the darkness. The Shade, together with the Fiddler and the Thinker, started a crime spree on Keystone City, before The Flash (Barry Allen) crossed the dimensional barrier and helped his namesake against the villains. Shade was in Injustice Society when the group enslaved the New Genesis population and revived Darkseid.

Description
Real Name: Richard "Dick" Swift
Group: Injustice Society, Injustice Unlimited
First Appearance: Flash Comics #33
(September, 1942)

"You were right to be afraid, too, my boy. My power isn't merely creating illusion from shadow. I make things manifest. Terrors, whole and hearty." - The Shade

Dickie Swift, alias the Shade, is a reformed supervillain. Originally an enemy of the Justice Society, he became an ally of Starman after he settled in Opal City.

In Earth-Two, the Shade was a common thief of unknown identity who could manipulate the shadows with his cane. He fought both incarnations of the Flash, Jay Garrick and Barry Allen. Initially a loner villain, he became a later member of the Injustice Society. In his first public crime, Shade and his henchmen blanketed all Keystone City, Jay Garrick's city, in total darkness, in an event ironically named Black Friday. In this appearance, Shade had long hair and used a big device, not his cane, to cause the darkness. The Shade, together with the Fiddler and the Thinker, started a crime spree on Keystone City, before The Flash (Barry Allen) crossed the dimensional barrier and helped his namesake against the villains. Shade was in Injustice Society when the group enslaved the New Genesis population and revived Darkseid.