The Phantom #15

(December 1965)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Get fun adventure

Characters

Doctor Solar; George Jetson; Jane Jetson; Tarzan; Uncle Scrooge; Bugs Bunny; Napoleon Solo (photo of Robert Vaughn); Ilya Kuryakin (photo of David McCallum)

The River Pirates (Table of Contents: 2)

The Phantom / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Harris

Pencils

Bill Lignante (signed)

Inks

Bill Lignante (signed)

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Letters

Ray Holloway

Job Number

15-6510

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In a thousand miles of deep jungle, there are no police and no soldiers, yet it is an area where men and women may walk without fear...

Genre

jungle; superhero

Characters

The Phantom; Padre; Fats; Gyp; native guide

Synopsis

Pirates burn and loot all along a river that is under Phantom protection. With the help of a native guide the Phantom first terrorizes and then captures the pirates. He and the guide march them along the route of their depredations, forcing them to rebuild, then turn them over to the Jungle Patrol.

Reprints

• in Indrajal Comics (Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1964 series) #51 (October 1, 1967)
• in X9 (Semic, 1969 series) #1/1971 ([20 jan] 1971)
• in The Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years (Hermes Press, 2011 series) #2 ([December] 2012)

Keywords

Crocodile; piracy; pirates; Skull Cave

Indexer 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.
Old native sayings: "When the Phantom is angry... the whole jungle shakes!" "Tigers freeze when the eyes of the Phantom blaze!"

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

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Indexer Notes

Letters from Dave Gilland, Dennis Wright, Steve White, and Alfredo Castelli, with replies by the editor.

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

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

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You and Cheerios really make sweet music together, Bullwinkle!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle the Moose

Synopsis

Bullwinkle is a one-man band with so much get-up-and-go that he runs into an open manhole.

Keywords

Band; cereal music

Indexer Notes

Ad, in comic-story form, for Cheerios cereal from General Mills.

The Secrets of the Pearl Pool (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

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Pencils

Al Micale

Inks

Al Micale

Colors

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Letters

Ben Oda

Genre

jungle

Characters

Track Hunter; Oloo

Synopsis

Strange greenish pearls drive Track Hunter mad. Oloo saves him by dynamiting the pearl bed.

Reprints

• in Fantomet (Romanforlaget, 1966 series) #18/1972 (uke 37 1972)

Keywords

Insanity; madness; pearls

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Jungle Oddities / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Frank Thorne

Inks

Frank Thorne

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From the Congo to the Amazon jungle creatures flourish in a Never-Never Land-like world!

Genre

non-fiction; animal

Keywords

Chimpanzee; educational; elephant; fact; giraffe; piranha; snake

Indexer Notes

Color fact feature

The Tournament (Table of Contents: 7)

The Phantom / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Harris

Pencils

Bill Lignante (signed)

Inks

Bill Lignante (signed)

Colors

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Letters

Ray Holloway

Genre

jungle; superhero

Characters

The Phantom; Wogan; escaped convict; elders

Synopsis

An escaped con steals a uniform from the Phantom, then blunders into an annual tournament without understanding the local language. When a Wambezi wrestler beats "the Phantom," the wrestler becomes ruler of the jungle for a year, appalling all the elders. The real Phantom beats the wrestler (to everyone's relief), and captures the crook, who still has no idea what has gone on.

Reprints

• in X9 (Semic, 1969 series) #8/1970 ([14 jul] 1970)
• in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #3/1990 (uke 5 1990)
• in The Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years (Hermes Press, 2011 series) #2 ([December] 2012)
• in Free Comic Book Day: The Phantom (Hermes Press, 2015 series) #[nn] (2015)

Keywords

Prison break; wrestler; wrestling

Daniel Boone Log Cabin (Table of Contents: 8)

Daniel Boone Log Cabin / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Kid

Keywords

Log cabin

Indexer Notes

Ad, with order coupon, for a "log cabin" from Whittle Baby Products.

Gold Key Comics (Table of Contents: 9)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

List of titles

Prehistoric Americans, Number 11: The Mesa Dwellers (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

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Pencils

Joe Certa

Inks

Joe Certa

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

Mesa dwellers

Synopsis

Facts about the lives of ancient mesa dwellers in Colorado.

Keywords

American Indian; Amerindian; Colorado; educational; fact; Native American

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

132 Pc. Roman Soldiers Set (Table of Contents: 11)

Roman War Soldiers / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Russ Heath

Inks

Russ Heath

Colors

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typeset

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Characters

Roman soldiers

Keywords

Legion; Rome; toy soldier

Indexer Notes

Ad, with order coupon, for plastic soldiers from Roman War Soldiers.