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14 unusual facts about The Phantom


Arun Prasad

His comics collection includes more than 15,000 rare and old Indian/Western comics including rarest of Amar Chitra Katha, Indrajal Comics, Tinkle, Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom.

Bill Lignante

He first drew The Phantom when he completed a strip left unfnished after the death of Wilson McCoy in 1961.

Electric Banana Band

The band takes on a jungle theme, partially borrowing elements from The Phantom, a widely popular comic in Sweden, as well as Tarzan.

Jeanne Bates

She played Bela Lugosi's first victim in The Return of the Vampire (1943), Diana Palmer in The Phantom (1943), and she had a minor role in Death of a Salesman (1951).

Jonathan Wild

Jonathan Wild is also the title character in the 2005–2006 Phantom stories "Jonathan Wild: King of Thieves" and "Jonathan Wild: Double Cross".

Lukas Bonnier

Lukas Bonnier obtained the rights to produce a comic book in Sweden, based on the comic The Phantom, and was a personal friend of The Phantom’s creator, Lee Falk.

Melvin Stewart

Stewart has written several films, including a new version of the Lee Falk's The Phantom (called The Ghost Who Walks).

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The original album cover features an image of fictional comic book superhero The Phantom.

Norman Worker

Norman Worker (1927 - 5 February 2005) was a British comic book writer, best known for his work on comic books featuring Lee Falk's The Phantom.

Pran Kumar Sharma

Apart from Daabu, Indian comics scenario was largely based on reprints of The Phantom and Superman.

Sunday strip

Many comic strips appear both daily and Sunday, in some cases, as with Little Orphan Annie, telling the same story daily and Sunday, in other cases, as with The Phantom, telling one story in the daily and a different story in the Sunday.

The Adventures of Captain Africa

The new story featured a new hero, Captain Africa, who still bears a strong resemblance to The Phantom in both appearance and behavior.

Footage from The Phantom was reduced when this stopped being a sequel.

The Eastern Dark

After some rehearsals the three became The Eastern Dark, named after a place in The Phantom comics.


Captain Action

Captain Action was an action figure created in 1966, equipped with a wardrobe of costumes allowing him to become Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Aquaman, the Phantom, The Lone Ranger (and Tonto), Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Sgt. Fury, Steve Canyon, and the Green Hornet.

Separate Superman, Batman, Lone Ranger, The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Captain America, Sgt Fury, Steve Canyon and Aquaman costumes (with accessories) were available; the next wave (1967) added Spider-Man, Buck Rogers, the Green Hornet, and Tonto, with a Blue Lone Ranger variation (matching the still popular Clayton Moore series) and collectible flicker rings in each box.

Fingerpori

As well as the Fingerporians, the strip has included characters such as the Pope, The Phantom, Spider-Man, Adolf Hitler, Kimi Räikkönen and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.

Georges Bess

During the period 1976 to 1988, Bess productively provided artwork for the serial publication The Phantom distributed by Scandinavian publishers of the popular periodical.

Indrajal Comics

The first 32 issues contained Lee Falk's The Phantom stories, but thereafter, the title alternated between various King Features characters, including Lee Falk's Mandrake, Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby and Phil Corrigan, Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer, Allen Saunders' Mike Nomad, Kerry Drake, and Steve Dowling's Garth.

Radmar Agana Jao

He received his bachelor’s degree in Communications from Indiana University, then moved to Los Angeles and became an actor, working in film (The Phantom, Minority Report, Diplomatic Siege), television (Seinfeld, Will and Grace, Dharma and Greg, ER), and stage (Sweeney Todd, A Language of their Own, Heading East - The Musical).

Sarjakuvalehti

Recurring series in the 1950s included Superman, Brick Bradford, Toot and Casper, Little Annie Rooney, Smokey Stover, Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton, Tim Tyler's Luck, Johnny Hazard, Terry and the Pirates, Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon, Mandrake, The Phantom and King of the Royal Mounted.

Savage Beauty

Inspired by the headlines and news stories from eastern Africa, retropreneur Ed Catto, and his Captain Action partner, Joe Ahearn recruited longtime writer of The Phantom, Mike Bullock.