Language | English |
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No of pages | 197 |
Book Publisher | Open Door Publications |
Published Date | 01 Jan 2018 |
Lee Falk was born on April 28, 1911 in St.Louis, Missouri, USA and died on March 13, 1999 in New York, NY, USA. The year of his birth was something which Lee consistently preferred to keep to himself. Many different birthyears have been reported in various books and magazine articles; anywhere from 1905 to 1917. It was not until he was laid to rest at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in New York City on March 18, 1999, that the facts were set straight — Lee Falk was born on April 28, 1911.
While at high school in St.Louis, Falk edited the school’s paper. After graduation, he attended the University of Illinois, where he majored in literature and continued his interest in writing by contributing stories, articles and poems for the college newspaper. As a 19 year old sophomore (2nd year), Falk developed his first ideas for a comic strip centred around a stage magician. Considering it more a less a prank, he drew up the first two weeks of what was eventually to become Mandrake the Magician. He had always sketched and drawn a bit, had even taken art classes with an interested in comics, but thought of himself primarily as a writer. Lee did not think much of his first efforts at comic strip creation, but was advised to stick with it by fellow St.Louis resident named Harry Tuthill, who was the creator of The Bungle Family, a very popular comic strip at the time. Tuthill encouraged his young friend to try to find a buyer for his strip.
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Four hundred years ago, a young sailor was washed up on a remote Bengali shore. He had seen his father killed and his ship scuttled by Singh pirates. He swore an oath on the skull of his father’s murderer. He was the first Phantom, and the eldest male of each succeeding generation of his family follow d in his footsteps. As the unbroken line continued through the centuries, the world came to believe that it was always the same man... the Phantom... the Ghost Who Walks... the Man Who Cannot Die!Frew Publications has been publishing the Phantom in Australasia since 1948. Their unbroken record-shattering run has excited generation upon generation of diehard readers and become a national icon, and is now firmly embedded into Australian pop culture.
Here are presented three timeless classics, published for the first time, in colour, by Frew: ‘The Return of the Sky Band’ (1941), by Lee Falk and Ray Moore, ‘The Movie Stars’ (1950) by Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy and last, but by no means least, ‘The Slave Markets of Mucar’ (1961) by Lee Falk and Sy Barry - PLUS three newly-created sequels: ‘Revenge of the Sky Band’ by Andrews Constant and Jason Pauli’s, ‘Jungle Love’ by Pidde Andersson and Shane Foley and ‘The Child Soldiers of Mucar’ by Dale Maccanti and Italian master, Romano Felmang.