The Phantom #12

(June 1965)

Architecture, Number 3: The Babylonians (Table of Contents: 1)

Keys of Knowledge / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Certa

Inks

Joe Certa

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Synopsis

Features of ancient Babylonian building.

Keywords

Architecture; Babylonia

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Beast of Bengali (Table of Contents: 2)

The Phantom / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Harris ?; Dick Wood ?

Pencils

Sparky Moore; Bill Lignante

Inks

Sparky Moore; Bill Lignante

Colors

?

Letters

Ben Oda

Genre

jungle; superhero

Characters

The Phantom; Guran; the Baron of Bengali [Best of Bengali] [the Golden One]; Chief Fauno

Synopsis

The giant "baron" uses trained animals and ventriloquism to feign magic and exploit the people of the jungle. The Phantom uses special effects to match the Baron's "magic," then defeats him in hand-to-hand combat.

Reprints

• in The Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years (Hermes Press, 2011 series) #2 ([December] 2012)

Keywords

Baboon; duel; giant; ventriloquism; ventriloquist

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Alberto Becattini (January 2011).

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 at Western/Gold Key. However, years earlier Harris had written in The Comic Reader #32 that new stories (not adapted from the comic strip) were being written by Dick Wood. This is a new story.

At http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-trapani-ghost-on-ghost-who-walk…, script-spotter Martin O'Hearn attributes the script to Dick Wood.

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Cheerios; Rocky & Bullwinkle / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Phan-Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Tom Wells, Gary Schwelbach, Bruce Capp, and Hans Hannus, with responses from the editor.

Safaris into the Unknown (Table of Contents: 5)

Track Hunter / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Lignante

Inks

Bill Lignante

Colors

?

Letters

Ben Oda

Genre

jungle

Characters

Track Hunter (introduction); Oloo; Dad; Tonga (gorilla)

Synopsis

Track Hunter and his father are shipping animals when a gorilla escapes and runs amok, killing the father. Oloo intervenes with a gem that enables him to control the white apes. Track and Oloo agree that rather than hunting, they will make safaris into the unknown to pursue mysteries.

Reprints

• in Fantomet (Romanforlaget, 1966 series) #7/1972 (uke 15 1972)

Keywords

Amulet; ape; Capetown; gorilla; hunter

Indexer Notes

Intro Track Hunter, but there was no "Track Hunter" logo on this story.

Wild Animals of Asia, Number 6: The Moon Bear (Table of Contents: 6)

Keys of Knowledge / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Joe Certa

Inks

Joe Certa

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; animal

Synopsis

Facts about the Himalayan moon bear.

Keywords

Himalayas; moon bear; movies

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

Gaylord Du Bois script credit for The Moon Bear as per page 202, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta, April 2016.

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Niresk Fishing Outfits / advertisement / 1 page (report information)