The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a 2014 one-shot comic book published by Dynamite Entertainment featuring their vigilante hero Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow. It is inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's original story of the same name. The name of the comic book is a play on words, with the protagonist's superhero moniker of "The Shadow" lending the title a dual meaning.
Synopsis[]
The Shadow and his plucky girl assistant / love interest Margo Lane find themselves in a coastal town called Innsmouth during Prohibition, being warned off by a local eccentric of the waterfront, Zadok. Claims are made that weird fish-men have been seen coming from and going to the ocean, carrying treasure.
The Shadow investigates. He sees the fish-men, establishing that there is some sort of physical reality to the story he was told.
When The Shadow and Margo clash with the fish-men, it transpires, in a Scooby-Doo style denouement, that the "fish-men" are merely human bootleggers in costumes. Margo pulls the costume head from one of them, revealing him to be none other than the source of the original imprecations - Zadok.
In a final cameo epilogue, H. P. Lovecraft is seen, writing down notes on what has happened, implying that this is the source of his weird horror story.
Behind the Mythos[]
Coincidentally or not, and although the Lupoff version features, amongst many other things, Nazi divers and a submarine base, there are basic plot similarities to the earlier Lovecraft's Book.