Indrajal Comics #51

(October 1, 1967)

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

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The River Pirates (Table of Contents: 2)

The Phantom / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Harris

Pencils

Bill Lignante

Inks

Bill Lignante

Colors

?

Letters

Ray Halloway

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; Guran; 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

• from The Phantom (Western, 1962 series) #15 (December 1965)

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!"
2 pages shorter than the original.

The Frame-Up (Table of Contents: 3)

Mandrake the Magician / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Gary Poole

Pencils

André LeBlanc

Inks

André LeBlanc

Colors

?

Letters

Ben Oda

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Lovely party Mrs. Ashley!

Genre

adventure; fantasy-supernatural; superhero

Characters

Mrs. Claremont Ashley; Mandrake the Magician; Lothar; Narda; Mr. Conrad; Count Gustavus

Synopsis

Mr. Conrad frames Mandrake for the theft of a necklace at Claremont's party, so he can rob her blind at the next party. Lothar, Narda, and Mandrake ensure he's captured the next time.

Reprints

• from Mandrake the Magician (King Features, 1966 series) #4 (March 1967)

Indexer Notes

Poole script per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 27, No.2, February 2016.

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

Ripley's Believe It or Not! / comic story / 1.5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hats of yak fur are worn by Tibetans to improve their eyesight!

Genre

non-fiction

Synopsis

Stories: Hats of yak fur; 2 Elephants eating dinner; The heaviest military uniforms in history; Prospective bridegrooms; and the officiating lama.

The Phantom --- The Ghost Who Walks (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Phantom; Flash Gordon / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)