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Issue: The Phantom #16
Publication Date: April 1966
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Issues: #16 of 17 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/20/1966
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Harris
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10014-607. Circulation statement reads 230,000. Marquis M. Morse is listed as editor (and as managing editor) in the circulation statement. Harris confirmed as editor per his biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 29, No.5, May 2018. Previous indexer credited Marquis Morse. On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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The Legend of the Chain!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): George Wilson (painting)
Inker(s): George Wilson (painting)
Colorist(s): George Wilson (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; warring tribesmen
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as The Phantom #16 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Montage cover
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The Skull Cave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Certa
Inker(s): Joe Certa
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as The Skull Cave [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: B&W feature page. Description of Skull Cave.
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The Chain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Harris
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Lignante (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Halloway
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; the 15th Phantom; Diana Palmer; Maude; Wuru; Prince
Synopsis: Disgusted at repeatedly needing to negotiate peace between warring groups, the Phantom gives up. Elderly Wuru tells the story of how the Phantom's mother-to-be Maude was kidnapped by an arrogant prince, who then captured the Phantom's father-to-be and set him to continuously working a pump to water the pigs. That Phantom allowed his chain to scrape over stone until he could break free, capture the prince, and free Maude. He added the chain to Skull Throne, entrusting Wuru with the story. Taking the lesson of patience, the Phantom resumes negotiatons, restoring the Phantom Peace.
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In Content Item: FlagFantomet #5/1989 published January 1989
as Fantomet i lenker [Story on Interior Page(s)]new layout
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as The Chain [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Job Number: 16-661
Disclose Notes: Remake of The Phantom Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1953.02.08 - 1953.05.24. According to a letter from Bill Harris in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 23, No 8, August 2012, he wrote all the Phantom stories.
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The Champ

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante [as Lig] (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Lignante [as Lig] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): Kit Walker; schoolboys; heavyweight champion
Synopsis: Encouraged by his schoolmates, young Kit Walker (the Phantom to be) enters an exhibition match in which he knocks out the heavyweight champion boxer with a single punch.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as The Champ [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One-pager about the young Phantom growing up in the US.
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The Milk Drinker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante [as Lig] (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Lignante [as Lig] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; bartender; toughs
Synopsis: Walking the town as an ordinary man, the Phantom orders milk in a bar. When contemptuous toughs gang up on him, he lays them out.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as The Milk Drinker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Phan-Mail!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Mai Kai Tan, Scott Canfield, Bobby Wood, Drew Kavorinos, and Peter Gould, with replies from the editor.
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The Ghost Hunter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Micale
Inker(s): Al Micale
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Track Hunter
Character(s): Track Hunter; Oloo; Park Denning
Synopsis: Track Hunter and Oloo stalk a mysterious glowing hunter who once a year slaughters animals and then raises them from the dead. He turns out to be a game warden using tranquilizer darts. He uses a luminous suit to scare off local people and attract the curious animals.
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In Content Item: FlagFantomet #13/1971 published January 1971
as Åndejegeren [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Crescent Cult

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Harris
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante
Inker(s): Bill Lignante
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; Queen of Bengali; members of the Crescent Cult
Synopsis: The Phantom saves the newly-crowned queen, and suppresses an ancient cult of assassins.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #25/1988 published January 1988
as Månedyrkerne [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as The Crescent Cult [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8.5
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Signed by H. L. Anderson, business manager. Filed September 28, 1965.
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The Diggers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante
Inker(s): Bill Lignante
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; Guran; archeologists
Synopsis: The Phantom orders that an archeological party be surreptitiously protected. They are astonished to find a 300 year-old portrait apparently of the Phantom -- the Ghost Who Walks, who cannot die.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as The Diggers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Russ Heath
Inker(s): Russ Heath
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Roman soldiers
First Line: 132 pc. Roman Soldiers
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad, with order coupon, for plastic soldiers from Roman War Soldiers. Full-page picture of Roman legion besieging a city.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Joel Ballenger; Mary Zimmerman; William Hanlin
First Line: Make Money Get Prizes With Fast Selling American Seeds
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad, with response coupon, for selling seeds from American Seed Co.

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