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The Phantom
''The Phantom'' is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla. The character has been adapted for television, film and video games. The series began with a daily newspaper strip on February 17, 1936, followed by a color Sunday strip on May 28, 1939; both are still running as of . In 1966, King Features stated that ''The Phantom'' was being published in 583 newspapers worldwide. At its peak, the strip was read by over 100 million people daily. Falk worked on ''The Phantom'' until his death in 1999; since his death, the comic strip has been written by Tony DePaul. Since 2016, it has been drawn by Mike Manley (Monday–Saturday) and, since 2017, Jeff Weigel (Sunday). Previous artists on the newspaper strip include Ray Moore, Wilson McCoy, Bill Lignante, Sy Barry, George Olesen, Keith Williams, Fred Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Phantom Sunday Strip
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Mike Manley (artist)
Michael Manley (born October 19, 1961) is an American artist, most notable as a comic strip cartoonist and comic book inker and penciller. Manley currently draws two syndicated comic strips, ''Judge Parker'' and ''The Phantom''. He is also known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Darkhawk. Personal life Manley was born in Detroit, Michigan. Manley's grandfather was a commercial artist, and Manley was therefore aware as a child that one could make a living at drawing. He says he always liked comics and cartooning, and recalls being impressed when ''The Wonderful World of Disney'' showed the animation artists working behind the scenes. As a youth in Michigan, Manley visited a comic book store every day after school, and became a serious collector and reader. By the time he was a teenager, Manley had decided he wanted to be a comic book artist or animator or illustrator. "Frank Frazetta seemed to be able to do everything, so he was my role model," Manley said. "How coul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Palmer (The Phantom)
Diana Palmer is a character in the American comic strip ''The Phantom''. She is the wife of Kit Walker, the titular hero. The couple have two children together, Kit and Heloise. Most recently, Diana has been working in the UN's Bangalla office. Family Diana was born into a wealthy family, to mother Lily Palmer and father Henry Zapman. Zapman's fate is unknown, but he is presumed to have died while Diana was still young, leaving Lily Palmer to raise her only child with the help of her brother, Dave Palmer. She has three cousins, Don, Lisa and Ann Palmer, but no siblings. Meeting Kit Walker Diana first met Kit Walker in Clarksville, United States, when they were both children. Kit, having recently arrived to live in the United States together with his faithful friend Guran of the Bandar tribe, had run away from his aunt and uncle, Sid and Bessie, due to strong homesickness. Diana, only eight years old at the time, convinced the ten-year-old Kit to stay together with his aunt and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M1911 Pistol
The M1911 (Colt 1911 or Colt Government) is a single-action, recoil-operated, semi-automatic pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. The pistol's formal U.S. military designation as of 1940 was ''Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911'' for the original model adopted in March 1911, and ''Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911A1'' for the improved M1911A1 model which entered service in 1926. The designation changed to ''Pistol, Caliber .45, Automatic, M1911A1'' in the Vietnam War era. Designed by John Browning, the M1911 is the best-known of his designs to use the short recoil principle in its basic design. The pistol was widely copied, and this operating system rose to become the preeminent type of the 20th century and of nearly all modern centerfire pistols. It is popular with civilian shooters in competitive events such as the International Defensive Pistol Association and International Practical Shooting Confederation. The U.S. military procured around 2.7 million M1911 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legacy Hero
A legacy hero is a type of character, usually a superhero, that is the descendant or relative of an already or previously existing hero who either inherits or adopts the name and attributes of the original. One of the earliest examples of this character type was comic strip hero ''The Phantom'', assumed to be immortal by his enemies. The identity was actually used by various members of a single family, the descendants of Christopher Walker. The term is used most often to refer to characters published by DC and Marvel Comics. Family franchises such as DC's Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Atom, Black Canary, Captain Marvel, The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Hawkwoman, The Ray and Robin or Marvel's Black Knight, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Hulk, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Thor, Wolverine, have seen several characters take up the name and abilities of the original. In the video games series, ''Assassin's Creed,'' many of the game's characters are descended from bloodlines of As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Beatty
Terry Beatty (born January 11, 1958''Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1650; February 2009; Page 107) is an artist who has worked as a penciler and inker in the American comic book industry, where he is perhaps best known for his co-creation of the female detective Ms. Tree. Career Terry Beatty is the artist and co-creator (with Max Allan Collins) of the long-running private eye series, '' Ms. Tree''. Collaborations with Collins also include ''Mike Mist'', ''Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger'' and ''Johnny Dynamite''. Beatty has been the primary inker of DC Comics' "animated-style" Batman comics, including a four-year stint inking Chris Jones' pencils on '' The Batman Strikes!''. From 2012 to 2017, Beatty was the artist for the Sunday episodes of the King Features comic strip, ''The Phantom'', with his first strip published on January 29, 2012. As of December 30, 2013, Beatty became the new artist for the King Features comic strip, '' Rex Morgan, M.D.'', taking over from Graham Nolan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Ryan (cartoonist)
Paul Ryan (September 23, 1949 – March 7, 2016) was an American comic artist. Ryan worked extensively for Marvel Comics and DC Comics on a number of super-hero comic book titles. He is best known for his 1991 to 1996 run as penciler on ''Fantastic Four'', which represents his longest association with an individual comic book series. From 2005 until his death in 2016, Ryan penciled and inked the daily newspaper comic strip ''The Phantom'' for King Features Syndicate. Biography Early years Paul Ryan was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1949. He attended St. Polycarp Grammar School in Somerville, and graduated from St. Mary of the Annunciation High School in 1967. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design. After graduation Ryan enlisted in the United States National Guard and was assigned to Fort Dix, New Jersey, for Basic Training and AIT (Advanced Individual Training) in automotive mechanics. He lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Barreto
Luis Eduardo Barreto Ferreyra (1954 – December 15, 2011) was a Uruguayan artist who worked in the comic book and comic strip industries including several years of prominent work for DC Comics. All of his children are artists. Two of them, Diego and Andrea, also work in comics, Diego as an artist, Andrea used to be a colorist & Guillermo who is an inker and illustrator. The three of them occasionally collaborated with Eduardo Barreto. Early life Luis Eduardo Barreto Ferreyra was born in 1954 in Montevideo, Uruguay. From the Sayago neighborhood, his childhood and youth house was in Calaguala street; and he grew up reading comics and being an avid supporter of his favorite soccer team, Club Nacional de Football. In interviews, Barreto reminisced about the time when, at age seven, he was reading a comic and decided he would grow up to be a professional comic strip artist. Career In Uruguay and Argentina A self-taught artist, Barreto named Russ Manning, Hal Foster and Warre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Nolan
Graham Nolan (born March 12, 1962) is an American comic book artist, best known for work for DC Comics on Batman-related titles in the 1990s and his work on ''The Phantom'' Sunday strip. He frequently collaborates with writer Chuck Dixon. Biography Nolan's first comics credit came in April 1985, when his work appeared in DC Comics' ''Talent Showcase'' #16, alongside Eric Shanower and Stan Woch (among others). Moving on to an issue of the Marvel ''Transformers'' comic, in 1988 he started a 12-issue run on DC's '' Power of the Atom'' comic. In June 1990, he launched John Ostrander and Tim Truman's ''Hawkworld'' comic, pencilling and inking it for 26 issues until late 1992. In 1992 he designed and co-created the Batman villain Bane. He also worked on many issues of ''Detective Comics'', illustrating key parts of the KnightFall and KnightsEnd sagas featuring Azrael and Batman. Graham Nolan also did freelance work for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game, including '' The Mines of Bloodst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Fredericks
Harold "Fred" Fredericks, Jr. (August 9, 1929 – March 10, 2015) was an American cartoonist who drew the '' Mandrake the Magician'' comic strip from June 1965, taking over for the late Phil Davis. Creator Lee Falk modernized the comic when Fredericks took over the strip, making it more reality-based by focusing less on science fiction and fantasy, and making Mandrake operate more like a secret agent, often helping out the police with cases they could not solve.Dallas, Keith, and Wells, John. ''American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-69''. Raleigh, NC., TwoMorrows Publishing, 2014. (p.56) Fredericks is also well known for inking ''The Phantom'' Sunday strips 1995 to 2000 (pencilled by George Olesen); Graham Nolan succeeded Fredericks when he decided to concentrate fully on Mandrake. He was also known for writing the comic strip "Rebel" for Scholastic Magazine from 1964 to the early 1990s, and for drawing the following comic books: '' Nancy'', ''Boris Karloff'', ''The Twilight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Williams (comics)
Keith Williams (born September 16, 1957) is an American comic book and comic strip artist. He is best known for illustrating The Phantom for over a decade together with George Olesen. He also worked on Superman with John Byrne. Since Paul Ryan took over the Phantom strip, Williams has mainly worked in comic books, like '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker'','' Buckaroo Banzai'' and'' Domino Lady'' from Moonstone Books Moonstone Books is an American comic book, graphic novel, and prose fiction publisher based in Chicago focused on pulp fiction comic books and prose anthologies as well as horror and western tales. The company began publishing creator-owned com .... References * * 1957 births Living people American comics artists {{Comic-strip-creator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Olesen
George Olesen (December 6, 1924 – October 15, 2013) was an American comic book artist, best known for his work as a penciller on popular comic strip '' The Phantom''. He worked with the character for around forty years, although he did not get any official credit for it until penciller Sy Barry retired and Keith Williams took over as the new inker. Olesen also illustrated a few Phantom stories for the Scandinavian Phantom comics, which he both pencilled and inked. During World War II Olesen served as a B-24 pilot in the Burma campaign. After the war he earned an illustration degree from the Pratt Institute. Olesen retired in 2005, leaving Paul Ryan Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is an American former politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was the vice presidential nominee i ... to take over both the pencilling and inking jobs on ''The Phantom''. Olesen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
