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What are his best stories? I enjoyed the 1989 DC comics but I wasn't a fan of the 1988 ones.
sy barry's strip, the rest is average to bad
The ghost who walks? Yeah. Loved him on Defenders of the Earth.
Fun fact. The Phantom is the World's first comic superhero. Predating even Superman by 2 years.
ok but what are his best stories
that actuly would be the Shadow, who the phantom is based off of.
He said comics superhero. The Shadow was a book series and he only reached comic strips in 1940.
Again he said comics superhero. Ogon Bat started as a street show. He got books in the 1940s and manga only in the 1960s.
And the first superhero is the Nyctalope from 1911 anyway, nearly two decades before the Shadow or Ogon Bat.
by that logic it's actuallly Zorro who is the world's first supehero.
Actually, by that logic, Sherlock Holmes is the world's first superhero.
Batman and the Shadow both rip off a lot of Arthur Conan Doyle stories
The whole masked vigilante with a secret identity started with the Scarlet Pimpernel
actually it starts with Robin Hood and arguably Spring Heeled Jack
No, it's Golden Bat
W r o n g
And Phantom is so much more interesting than that lake ass piece of shit. Most underrated comic hero ever
How do I read Phantom aside from buying the Sunday newspaper
Does Kit's sister sometimes go out as the Phantom?
there are reprints coming out by hermes press but they're expensive
post the tribe that paints their war shields with his face to create fear
I could only find pictures of the shields but not the initial post.
I'm swedish, of course i know him!
OG Gray suit > dark blue suit > purple suit >>>>> the bright red and green one that the Spaniards have
Classic!
On Swedish media featuring the Phantom:
I love how in Sweden they felt justified in putting the Phantom and Superman on the same level like that.
>I've been playing tennis with Spider-Man
>Is he any good?
>Nah he's hopeless, he's always hitting the net
Some moron coloured Machine Man wrong
He deserves more recognition. For being such an early hero he's still very unique.
His proper self is the Phantom, and its his day job. Works to keep the peace in his jungle and leaves it to help others in need when he knows of it.
Legacy character, with his children taking over the position when the current one dies. Allows for awesome historical adventures with his ancestors, meeting up with famous people and taking part in historical events.
While this will vary depending on era of the story, but a generally grounded setting, with some major exceptions like his pet stegosaurus but I think he's been ignored lately.
I don't know how there still isn't a generational Jojo-type Phantom series going from pirate times to current day or even into the future. It lends itself perfectly for that.
That'd be cool but you'd need a good, dedicated writer/editor to not utterly frick it up otherwise multiple writers will clash and try to frick each other over which will ruin the story like so many other characters/story arcs have
The series already is that, at least in Sweden. They have their own continuity and had previous Phantoms meet up with Benjamin Franklin and be part of an assassination of a Swedish king. They're great.
I really prefer the historical adventures, if only because he can't rely on guns as much and so brawl and fences instead. The modern ones makes you wonder why he's not shooting people more often when he's dual-wielding and shit. You can only see him shoot the gun out of someone's hands a certain amount of times before it becomes tiresome.
Yeah; it’s prince
I randomly saw the movie on hbo (I think) when I was 9 or 10.
I watched the cartoon when I was a child in the 90s. We do get translated US stuff late, so that was probably the only reason.
We all agree that the supernatural stories are the best ones, followed by the historical ones, right? Modern day pirate stuff is just meh.
The Spectre?
The Spirit?
The Ghost?
What you know about the ghost who walks? Say no more.
Why is he farting sparks?
Cuz that series is shit.
it is THE shit
In the '30s his costume changed color from country to country due to different print qualities.
His best stories are those of the Defenders of the Earth animated series.
Yes
'De geest die wandelt'!
I can't explain how but the Dutch translation of 'The ghost who walks' is weirder and cooler somehow
The gast/geist that wanders? That does sound slightly cooler than walks, and more thematic with the whole connection between ghosts and restless wandering, and gast/geist sounds a little bit more old-world and spookier than ghost.
There's a book that's called The Grey Man Walks that I basically bought because the synopsis recounted a ghost story about a grey man being seen walking a beach before disaster strikes, and he's been seen again right as the story starts.... It was a complete and utter shit whodunnit with extra helpings of forced racism.
Yeah, in Swedish it's Vandrande Vålnaden, which is also alliteration so it gains much in the translation.
I do like the idea though that they're simply translations of the indigenous people's sayings about him, so there's a bit of a purposeful 'lost in translation' going on, which adds to the exoticism and mystique.
>all this 'um achykually' over who the first superhero was
at this point might as well say gilgamesh was the very first superhero
He even has the classic superhero crossover with Enkidu where they fight, but then become friends.
have you?
>O Fantasma
Yup.
I remember reading the comic strips with my dad. I was probably too young to truly appreciate them. I've read a few lately and they're pretty decent.
Can't find any scans or previews, but there's a hilarious parody of the Phantom in this swedish gag comic called Illustrerad Djävulskap where the protagonists from there meet up with Santa Clause but who's designed and operates like the Phantom, just chirstmas themed. Even the name in Swedish is hilarious, Fantomten.
Danger in the Forbidden is great pulp throwback. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the Phantom.
I think his comic strip still appears daily in the morning paper my parents order. Not sure if anyone reads it that passionately though.
Is he public domain?
Sure, I still buy his comic every 2 week becasue I live in a based country.
I have and so have papa new guinea tribesmen