The Phantom: The Complete Series: The Charlton Years, Volume 5

The Phantom: The Complete Series #8

by Joe Gill, Nicola Cuti, Bill Pearson

The high-point of the Phantom Chartlon series has arrived with the final volume of the series which reprints the complete run of Don Newton’s definitive work on the Ghost Who Walks!
The mid-1970s comic book adventures of The Phantom return in full, glorious color! Hermes Press has collected, concluding with this volume, all 74 issues of The Phantom comic books that ran from 1962-1977. This book collects the last 10 issues from the series which features stories and artwork by the inimitable Don Newton. The Charlton 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. Also featured is an exhaustive essay on Don Newton and other special features. Volume Five reprints issues #65 through #74; cover artwork by Don Newton and Frank Bolle; stories by Joe Gill, Nicola Cuti, Bill Pearson, John Clark, and Don Newton; artwork by Joe Sherwood and Don Newton Don’t miss it!

Genres: Superheroes

240 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15, 2016

About the author

Joseph P. Gill was an American magazine writer and highly prolific comic book scripter. Most of his work was for Charlton Comics, where he co-created the superheroes Captain Atom, Peacemaker, and Judomaster, among others. Comics historians consider Gill a top contender as the comic-book field's most prolific writer. Per historian and columnist Mark Evanier, Gill "wrote a staggering number of comics. There are a half-dozen guys in his category. If someone came back and said he was the most prolific ever, no one would be surprised."

Reviews

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

The final volume of the Phantom comic was probably the strongest, or at least the strongest since the early Jim Aparo issues. Don Newton did most of the art for this final volume, and some of the writing as well. Newton did some Batman work as well, and was really an underrated artist.

In this volume we had longer stories, and they took on more of a "James Bond" feel with outlandish villains, but it never quite reached the campy stage.

With this volume I have read all of the Silver and Bronze Age Phantom comics, and as a group it was a very enjoyable series. It had high points and low points but never reached what I'd call a bad stage. Overall I think the comic series more than did justice to the more popular newspaper strips.