The Phantom: The Complete Series Vol. 1: The Charlton Years

by Bill Harris, Dick Wood, Steve Skeates

226 pages. The late 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 begins the Charlton years. Volume One of The Charlton Years picks up with The Phantom #30, that publisher's first issue, and features all The Phantom stories from nine complete comic books. Volume One of The Charlton years highlights art by Jim Aparo and stories by Dick Wood. 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.

Genres: Comics

226 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 22, 2012

Reviews

[Doctor Doom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Early Jim Aparo art is always a pleasure to see [though he would improve with age it is brilliant here as well]. I am sure drawing the Phantom was good "practice" toward drawing the Batman later.
The stories are fairly brief but interesting. I miss the Phantom background stories of previous publishers as well as the stories of earlier Phantoms.