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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 9, 2016 8:34:25 GMT -5
I've been following the online strips of the Phantom and Mandrake for a few weeks. I haven't read a Phantom story since kindergarten, and something intrigues me : is his face always hidden, even when he unmasks? If so, that's pretty neat. I really enjoyed the Mandrake book (finally) published by Titan earlier this year. Hopefully, on the tail of the great books by Titan, IDW and Dark Horse reprinting Mandrake, Flash Gordon and Tarzan by Manning and by Hogarth, we'll eventually get a Phantom series. There were real gems in those days. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 9:52:17 GMT -5
I'm a fan of the early Phantom Comic Books that appeared in 1967-69 time frame and they were gems those days and I have a certain fondness of the character; and I also enjoy the movie that came out in 1996 starring Billy Zane.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 9, 2016 10:00:32 GMT -5
I've been following the online strips of the Phantom and Mandrake for a few weeks. I haven't read a Phantom story since kindergarten, and something intrigues me : is his face always hidden, even when he unmasks? If so, that's pretty neat. I really enjoyed the Mandrake book (finally) published by Titan earlier this year. Hopefully, on the tail of the great books by Titan, IDW and Dark Horse reprinting Mandrake, Flash Gordon and Tarzan by Manning and by Hogarth, we'll eventually get a Phantom series. There were real gems in those days. The Phantom's early strips are being reprinted by Hermes Press. If you go to Amazon you'l find them there. Hermes isn't particularly good about keeping things in print, so the earlier volumes are very pricey. The only time I've really read The Phantom are the Charlton issues by Don Newton and the mini and short-lived series that DC put out in the late 80s. As for the comic strip, there have just always been other adventure strips with art that was more appealing to me so I've never managed to collect any of The Phantom strips. |
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Post by MDG on Jun 9, 2016 10:25:10 GMT -5
The Phantom is a character I want to like more than I actually do. That said, I've generally enjoyed stores/strips I've read and think the movie is underrated.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Jun 9, 2016 10:55:57 GMT -5
The Phantom IS the character I grew up with : as I explained in another thread, his bi-weekly magazine is THE comic in scandinavia. I hear he is also supremly popular down under. There are hundreds of stories that have now been exclusivly produced for this market. Sometimes we got reprints of old Lee Falk strips or stories, but 95% of the time, it was all original stories, many from scandinavian writers, but sometimes from english or french ones as well, even some american ones such as Graham Nolan. Until the early 90ies it was all in black and white and each issue featured an original painting on the cover by a swedish artist.    A lot of the stories used history or well known novels, and just threw te Phantom in the equation , explaining how he influenced the outcome of the situation without it ever really being known. You never see his face, but there's several phantoms through the ages as the mask is passed from farther to son since the original one had his ship wreck on an african coast (some weird amalgam of Bengali and south pacific asian atols) in the 16th century IIRC. There are so far 21 Fantoms, and the current one is Christopher "Kit" Walker. He has many allies and secret bases. In the modern day, he is good friend with the president of the country where his cavern is deep in the jungle. Most of his accolytes frmo the old stories are gone appart from Guran, the short dude with the weird hat who runs the village around the Fantoms cavern. He also has a secret haul on the big rock/mountain in the middle of the australian desert. I don't know how he fares beyond the original old Falks dailies in the US, but the mythology is still alive and kicking here in Sweden, at least every other week. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 19:42:40 GMT -5
Great character. Loved the comic strips when they were in our newspaper. I think Paul Ryan was drawing them for awhile. Loved the comic books by Charlton that Aparo & Newton drew.
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Post by MDG on Jun 10, 2016 9:05:53 GMT -5
Great character. Loved the comic strips when they were in our newspaper. I think Paul Ryan was drawing them for awhile. Loved the comic books by Charlton that Aparo & Newton drew. After Ryan left, Terry Beatty took over the Sundays. Graham Nolan was doing them for a while, too. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 10, 2016 10:07:05 GMT -5
Great character. Loved the comic strips when they were in our newspaper. I think Paul Ryan was drawing them for awhile. He did, but passed away earlier this year. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2016 6:26:31 GMT -5
Great character. Loved the comic strips when they were in our newspaper. I think Paul Ryan was drawing them for awhile. Loved the comic books by Charlton that Aparo & Newton drew. After Ryan left, Terry Beatty took over the Sundays. Graham Nolan was doing them for a while, too. Unfortunately our local newspaper no longer has any adventure style comic strips, They only have the humorous ones which I still enjoy.... |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2016 6:31:43 GMT -5
Great character. Loved the comic strips when they were in our newspaper. I think Paul Ryan was drawing them for awhile. He did, but passed away earlier this year. I know. I really liked his art. I felt he wasn't flashy but he was a great storyteller. I especially liked his runs on The Flash & Fantastic Four. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 11, 2016 6:32:18 GMT -5
The brilliant thing about The Phantom to me is that he's designed to be a legacy character, which should potentially allow the character to have limitless possibilities. I love Batman, but he's always going to be Bruce Wayne (in the end) for better or for worse.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 11, 2016 12:26:25 GMT -5
Like Rob said, I love the idea of The Phantom being a legacy character that's believed to be an immortal jungle god and uses that fear to his advantage against his foes. There's also a real world tribe of natives in New Guinea who adore the Phantom and use his image to decorate their shields  |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 11, 2016 22:02:42 GMT -5
Most of my exposure to the Phantom was from the Charlton series. The Don Newton issues are deservedly popular. I also recall enjoying the Pat Boyette issues. Boyette had a unique style that worked for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2016 8:18:38 GMT -5
Most of my exposure to the Phantom was from the Charlton series. The Don Newton issues are deservedly popular. I also recall enjoying the Pat Boyette issues. Boyette had a unique style that worked for me. The Charlton Phantom had great art by Aparo, Boyette & Newton. However I can't remember who wrote Charlton's Phantom... |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 12, 2016 21:36:28 GMT -5
Most of my exposure to the Phantom was from the Charlton series. The Don Newton issues are deservedly popular. I also recall enjoying the Pat Boyette issues. Boyette had a unique style that worked for me. The Charlton Phantom had great art by Aparo, Boyette & Newton. However I can't remember who wrote Charlton's Phantom... The stories produced by Charlton were written primarily by Joe Gill. They also reprinted some stories from an Italian Phantom comic. Another good artist who worked on the Phantom for Charlton is Frank Bolle. |
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