Language | English |
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No of pages | 97 |
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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Welcome to Phantom's World No 11, our first story which is also our cover for this issue is The Haunted Castle. This was the 21st Phantom Sunday story written by Lee Falk with the art work drawn by Ray Moore. The Ray Moore version of The Haunted Castle last appeared in a Frew Issue No: 1393. It has been enchantingly re-imagined for this issue of Phantom's World by Romano Felmang. Again the Phantom is pitted against the evil Moogoo, who's still downsizing after all these years.
Our second story Aerial Sabotage was published by Fratelli Spada back in 1969, written by Giovanni Fiorentini and once more with art by Felmang. In this story, what starts of as a quiet day out riding for the Ghost Who Walks and Hero, becomes anything but, soon after a passing plane explodes and falls out of the sky. The third and final piece in this publication is titled Four against The Phantom. Art by Antonio Sciotti but no writer has been credited which is often the case with the Fratelli Spada material. In this story a group of army deserters are foolhardy enough to believe that they can take on the Phantom and win, big mistake!