The Phantom
#5
(November 1963)
Western,
1962 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1963-08-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- K. K. Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Gold Key
- Editing
- Bill Harris
Issue Notes
Cover code: 10014-311. On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
The Phantom Battles the Swamp Rats!
The Phantom / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Reprints
-
in The Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years (Hermes Press, 2011 series) #1 ([December] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Swamp
Peoples of Africa, Number 7: The Fantis
Keys of Knowledge / comic story / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Swamp Rats
The Phantom / comic story / 15 pages
- Job Number
- 5-638
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- The Phantom; Colonel Weeks; Sergeant Cole; Patrolman Jones; Otter; swamp rats
- Synopsis
- Otter leads his "swamp rats" on raids against nearby villages and caravans, always escaping by means of secret trails through the Great Swamp. When they capture two Jungle Patrol men as hostages, the Phantom infiltrates their camp, frees the patrolmen, and with their help captures the bandits.
- Reprints
-
in Indrajal Comics (Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1964 series) #31 (September 1966) -
in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #10/1990 ([8. mai] 1990) - in The Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years (Hermes Press, 2011 series) #1 ([December] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Jungle Patrol; swamp
Indexer Notes
Writer, artist and letterer credits assumed from rest of issue. Remake of The Phantom daily (King Features Syndicate) 1959.06.15 - 1959.10.03 [original title: The Swamp Rats].
[no title indexed]
Phan-Mail / letters page / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I know you don't have a fan page in your Phantom comic book, but I'm suggesting you have one called Phan-Mail!
Indexer Notes
First letters column. Letters from Brent Richards, George Pacinda, Fred Romanek, Joe Nickerson, and Bruce Williams.
Rogue Elephant
King, Queen and Jack / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Victor King; Francis Queen; Jack Hawkins
- Synopsis
- The three friends narrowly escape death bringing down a rogue elephant in a bamboo stand. They discover that the animal had a bullet lodged in the nerve center of one tusk, causing it years of constant agony.
- Keywords
- Elephant; hunters; hunting
The Phantom's Boyhood
The Phantom / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- The Phantom [the twentieth Phantom]; Kit Walker [the "current," 21st Phantom as a boy]; Kit's mother; Guran
- Synopsis
- The twentieth Phantom teaches his son Kit in the skills and the lore of his future career as the Phantom. Eventually the boy is sent to his mother's family for schooling in America, with Guran as companion. The two friends don't know what to make of the industrialized world. Kit shocks his aunt and uncle by arriving in a loincloth, having swapped clothes with Guran, who's been feeling self-conscious.
- Reprints
- in Indrajal Comics (Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1964 series) #31 (September 1966)
- in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #23/1989 (uke 45 1989)
- in The Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years (Hermes Press, 2011 series) #1 ([December] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Childbirth; ocean liner; Skull Cave
Indexer Notes
1st of a series showing the boyhood of the Phantom. This one shows his birth. Continues in 6 and 7.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Phantom Battles the Swamp Rats!
The Phantom -
1.
Peoples of Africa, Number 7: The Fantis
Keys of Knowledge -
2.
The Swamp Rats
The Phantom -
3.
["I know you don't have a fan page in your Phantom comic book, but I'm suggesting you have one called Phan-Mail!"]
Phan-Mail -
4.
Rogue Elephant
King, Queen and Jack -
5.
The Phantom's Boyhood
The Phantom -
6.
Fish, Number 22: Bonefish
Keys of Knowledge -
7.
The Phantom Pin-Up No. 5
The Phantom
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Katy Hayhurst
- Kirk House
- Dan Kocher
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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