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Issue: The Phantom #8
Publication Date: August 1964
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Issues: #8 of 17 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/14/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
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Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Harris
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10014-408. On-sale date from 1964 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
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FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #1 published December 2011 as The Phantom #8 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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The Man Who Killed the Phantom!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): George Wilson (painted)
Inker(s): George Wilson (painted)
Colorist(s): George Wilson (painted)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; pirates
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Wild Animals of North America, Number 4: Raccoons

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Certa
Inker(s): Joe Certa
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Keys of Knowledge
Synopsis: Facts about raccoons, and especially their interactions with humans.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Belt

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Harris
Penciller(s): Bill Lignante (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Lignante (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; the twentieth Phantom; Calder; Rama; Mik
Synopsis: The current Phantom's father was betrayed and murdered by an informant while acting against the Singh pirates. The current Phantom learns that the pirates have turned mostly to smuggling, gambling, and extortion under the leadership of Rama, who claims to have killed the Phantom, and who displays his belt and pistols as proof. In disguise, the Phantom visits their island, turns the pirates against each other, and terrifies Rama, who sets off hidden explosives destroying himself, the pirate base, and most of his confederates.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #1 published December 2011
as The Belt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 26
Job Number: 8-645
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. The unmasked face of the young Phantom (in a flashback of his father's death) is never shown.
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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: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from Liz Putnam, Dick Burt, Patricia Mangan, Jay and Lenny Spitz, Ken Beschta, Paul Feola, Michael Baber, Peter Lisiecki, Hans Hannus, Marcus Smith, Jerry Phillips, and Mark Joss, with replies from the letters editor.
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Ivory, Ivory, Everywhere

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
Feature(s): King, Queen and Jack
Character(s): Victor King; Francis Queen; Jack Hawkins
Synopsis: The four friends participate in controlled hunting, but Jack is knocked out and dreams of fabulous riches from the ivory in the elephant graveyard. King and Queen explain that unwell elephants usually expire when unable to arise from rivers, which is why their massive carcasses... and their tusks... are rarely found.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Prehistoric Animals, Number 4: The Dinosaurs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Celardo
Inker(s): John Celardo
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Keys of Knowledge
Synopsis: Facts about Mesozoic dinosaurs
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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The Phantom Pin-Up

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): George Wilson (painted)
Inker(s): George Wilson (painted)
Colorist(s): George Wilson (painted)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): The Phantom
Character(s): The Phantom; pirates
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Same image as front cover, minus trade dress, etc.

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