The Mysterious Ambassador

The Story of the Phantom #6

by Lee Falk

Clean book except for small black marker mark on spine.

Genres: Comics, Fiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1973

About the author

Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross (April 28, 1911 - March 13, 1999), was an American writer, theater director and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strips The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician. At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day. Falk also wrote short stories, and he contributed to a series of pulp novels about The Phantom

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the sixth volume in Avon's series of prose novels based on Lee Falk's iconic comic strip hero. This is one of the better ones; it was written by Falk himself, and is a pretty close adaptation of one of his story lines from the newspapers. Kit and Diana face overwhelming odds as they oppose a power-mad General to protect a new country. It's a pretty good story of suspense and international intrigue, rather than the usual fight against slavers and pirates.

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Phantom becomes involved in a coup in an African nation. When an evil general overthrows the rightfully elected president, the Phantom takes it upon himself to set things right. With the unstable politics in Africa at the time, this was a really good, logical Phantom story. So far the novels are doing a good job of mixing the stories up, rather than just having the Phantom fighting pirates all the time.

[Tony Williams · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, this is my second go 'round w/The Phantom pulp books from the 70's, and I have to say once again that these books just aren't very good.,

Obviously I wasn't expecting War and Peace, but I did hope that it would at least be fun. Unfortunately, like the previous entry that I read (The Hydra Monster), this was a time-wasting slog. It's poorly written, badly plotted and just plain dull.

The only reason that I even gave this one a shot is because I won four of the books from this ten book series in a lot, and I needed a quick read while I waited for a book order to arrive.

I still have two more books just sitting there, but there's absolutely no way I'm heading back to Bangalla with this dull as dirt hero and following him on any more of his "adventures".

[Tyson Cocks · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love a villain who’s proof for everything is ordering someone to bringing him a head on a platter.

[Shawn Deal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love these pulp fiction books, especially about one of my favorite characters in the Phantom.

[Trine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spennende fortellinger om Fantomets kamp mot pirater.