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Issue: The Phantom #17
Publication Date: July 1966
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Issues: #17 of 17 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/21/1966
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Harris
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10014-607. This issue marks the return to quarterly publication (rather than bi-monthly), but it is in fact that last Gold Key issue. 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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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; Devil; guardsmen; Queen Samaris
First Line: A 300-year-old queen defies a witch's spell to capture the Phantom!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as The Phantom #17 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Diana

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante
Inker(s): Bill Lignante
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): Diana Palmer; the Phantom [Kit Walker]; suitors
Synopsis: Meeting as young people in America, Diana and the Phantom become sweethearts for life. A beautiful young woman, and an Olympian in swimming and diving, she has many suitors, but loves only the Phantom.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as Diana [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: B&W feature page.
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Samaris [Part I]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Harris
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante
Inker(s): Bill Lignante
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ray Halloway
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; guardsmen; Queen Samaris; queen of the witches; Bandar; grandfather; grandsons
Synopsis: In a frame story, grandfather tells the tale of Queen Samaris 12th, who won eternal youth from a witch and then reneged on the promised payment, killing her instead. After 300 years she meets the Phantom, who treats her with disdain. Capturing him by trickery, Samaris demands marriage. When he refuses she realizes that she has fallen in love with him -- invoking the witch's curse, suddenly aging to her full 300 years and crumbling to dust.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as Samaris, Part II [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 15
Job Number: 17-664
Disclose Notes: 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 Waterfall

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante
Inker(s): Bill Lignante
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ray Halloway
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; Bengali man; Bandar
Synopsis: The Phantom and the Bandar live in the Deep Woods, the entrance to which is concealed by a waterfall and guarded by warriors.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Color feature page on the entrance to the Deep Woods.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Rocky and Bullwinkle
Character(s): Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle the Moose
First Line: You and Cheerios really make sweet music together, Bullwinkle!
Synopsis: Bullwinkle is a one-man-band with so much get-up-and-go that he crashes through an open manhole.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad, in comic-story form, for Cheerios cereal from General Mills.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Phan-Mail!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from George Daniel, Leigh Gower, Robin Olson, Louis Jackson, Lois Baker, and Steve Ekwall, with replies from the editor.
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The Chimp Who Hunted Human Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante
Inker(s): Bill Lignante
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ray Halloway
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Track Hunter
Character(s): Track Hunter; Oloo; Kanjab [the Killer Chimp]
Synopsis: Track Hunter and Oloo investigate a chimpanzee in hunter's garb -- a chimp who attacks villagers with a rifle. Track Hunter captures the chimp after recognizing that he is a trained animal shooting blanks.
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Pages: 4
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Samaris, Part II

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Harris
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante
Inker(s): Bill Lignante
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ray Halloway
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
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Pages: 9
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A Day with the Bambuti Pygmies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Thorne
Inker(s): Frank Thorne
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Jungle Oddities
Character(s): Bambuti people
Synopsis: The Bambuti consider themselves "the Children of the Forest." They gather food, hunting small animals with nets and large ones with poisoned arrows. They love their homeland very much.
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Pages: 1
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The Bandar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante
Inker(s): Bill Lignante
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; Bandar
Synopsis: The Bandar live with the Phantom. They know and guard all his secrets -- most notably, the fact that he is not 400 years old. They help him whenever he is in need, and they train each young Phantom-to-be in the ways of the jungle. "All he knows, he owes to these tiny people."
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: B&W feature page
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Niresk Discount Sales
First Line: 3 complete fishing outfits
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad, with order coupon, for fishing supplies.

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