Saturday Matinee- The Phantom (1943) episode 3 " A Traitor's Code"

Well, as I'm sure you all recall, last week we left The Phantom at the mercy of his second greatest foe, a Great Cat! A Lion, this time (Man! Alligators, Lions, where the heck IS this place? The Central Park Zoo?

Lions, Tigers and Leopards Oh My! Part two: Finland

I recently discovered an index of Finnish Phantoms (or Musta-Naamio , as he is called) and, once again, we see that Jungle cats are second only to pirates in their enmity for The Ghost Who Walks.







Frankly, I find that circus clown even scarrier than the tiger.

Harvey Hits #26 - The Wild Girl, Part One

Harvey Hits#26
November, 1959
Harvey Comics
Cover: Wilson McCoy
Script: Lee Falk
Pencils/Inks: Wilson McCoy

Prior to licensing The Phantom to Gold Key, King Features Syndicate licensed the property to Harvey Comics, home of Casper The Friendly Ghost. Unlike the later comics which were original stories outside the newspaper continuity, Harvey opted to reprint storylines from the daily newspaper strips, re-formatted and presented in color. I suspect the stories were probably slightly abridged as well, as four months of dailies crammed into 24 pages seems a tight fit.

Enjoy part one of "The Wild Girl"
















Tune in tomorrow for Part Two!

Lions and Tigers and Leopards! Oh My!

Over the years The Ghost Who Walks has battled pirates, smugglers, slavers, gun-runners, poachers, cannibals and baddies of every shape and size. Apart from his countless, two-legged foes, The Phantom's greatest adversaries seem to be great cats, as this collection of classic covers from all over will attest. I guess it's no surprise that Mr. Walker seems to be a dog person.