The Phantom . Issue 1500

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FOR those who came in late to The Phantom, as many of his comic adventures begin, nearly 60 years after publishing its first Australian edition of The Phantom in comic book form, Sydney publisher Frew last week commemorated a world record of 1500 continuous issues with the release of a special collectors' edition issue.

Containing reprints of both the first Phantom daily, and Sunday, newspaper stories that were originally published in the US in the 1930s, the issue also included another Phantom collectors' dream – the world's first Phantom encyclopedia assembled jointly by Frew publisher Jim Shepherd and Frew's resident Brisbane-based Phantom historian Barry Stubbersfield.
Pre-dating both the Batman and Superman comic book heroes, The Phantom was the brainchild of Missouri-born writer Lee Falk in 1936, who had already, as a young man conceived of his other great comic character, Mandrake the Magician, two years earlier before coming up with the brilliantly simple idea of having a multi-skilled, physically impressive and well-educated crime fighter living in the mysterious deep woods of a jungle from where he could freely come and go while pursuing justice.

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Not a bad record whenThe Phantom isn't as well known as Supe, Spidey etc

[DoreSlamR]

thank god for all those phantom comics in the show bags at the yearly royal shows ;)

[prydey]

'voice of angry phantom freeze blood in veins'

there's some gold sayings in those books as well. he is heaps better than the other 'superheroes'. no special powers here. just a smart strong bloke with a lot of luck and coincedence on his side.

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Originally Posted by prydey

'voice of angry phantom freeze blood in veins'

there's some gold sayings in those books as well. he is heaps better than the other 'superheroes'. no special powers here. just a smart strong bloke with a lot of luck and coincedence on his side.

There are 250 Jungle Sayings.
The first was in 1936.."When the Phantom only warns once" old jungle saying.
"When the Phantom is angry, the jungle shakes"
.."When the Phantom moves, he shames the lightning " old jungle saying.
The last by Falk is "Phantom faster than eye can see" in 1998