The Phantom: The Complete Series: The King Years

The Phantom: The Complete Series #3

by Dick Wood, Bill Lignante (Artist)

The mid-1960s comic book adventures of The Phantom return in full, glorious color! Hermes Press is collecting all 74 issues of The Phantom comic books which ran from 1962-1977, and this volume features the King years. This volume picks up with The Phantom #18, the first King issue, and features all The Phantom stories from issues #18-28. Featuring cover and interior art by Bill Lignante, the King comic book version of the grand-daddy of costumed heroes, the Ghost Who Walks, is available again, digitally remastered to look better than the original books.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Fiction

256 pages, Hardcover

First published February 14, 2012

Reviews

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

After licensing the Phantom out to Gold Key Comics, King Features Syndicate decided to publish their Phantom comics in house. The idea didn't really pan out, and the series lasted I think ten issues before the character was once again licensed for comics, the next time to Charlton.

The series did remain consistent, as I really saw very little difference between the Gold Key run and the King run. Many of the same creators were used. One big advantage, however, were the covers. Gold Key had great painted covers, and the King covers were more generic traditional comic art covers.

Overall the King run wasn't bad though, and it was more of the great Phantom Adventures we got in the Gold Key era.