Reading Room PHANTOM LADY "Case of the Swindling Eye"

The superheroine who's an eyeful catches con artists using glass eyes...

...in this tale from All-Top Comics #11!

While there are aspects to the story (probably by Ruth Roche) like how, on page 3, Don doesn't recognize Phantom Lady as Sandra Knight! (He was looking at her face, not her...headlights...although the way the word balloons are arranged in page 3, panel 5 leaves no doubt as to what the editor thinks the reader wants to see!
The cheesecake "good girl" art is, of course by Matt Baker, who did almost all the Phantom Lady stories!

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Reading Room PHANTOM LADY "Stinging Whip"

At long last, from the issue Dr Wertham vilified in Seduction of the Innocent...

...that fine filly, Phantom Lady, spends a day at the races in this tale from Phantom Lady #17!

Though the GCD lists Jack Kamen as the artist, I suspect he did pencils only, as there's a lot of Matt Baker influence in this art, especially the rendering.

Here's Adam Hughes' take on the cover for this issue, Phantom Lady #17
from the HTF trade paperback Phantom Lady: Crime Never Pays!

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Reading Room PHANTOM LADY "Soda Mint Killer"

At long last, from the issue Dr Wertham vilified in Seduction of the Innocent...

...The Phantom Lady deals out just desserts in this never-reprinted tale of luncheonette larceny!

Yeah, she killed them, but they deserved it!
The splendidly-sordid, but deliciously-cheesecakey art is, of course, by legendary good-girl illustrator Matt Baker!
The quirky story is probably by Ruth Roche.
And, oddly, it's NEVER been reprinted!

Here's the cover to this issue...

...but, oddly enough, it has nothing to do with either Phantom Lady story,  but it's probably the single most famous example of comic book "good girl" art in history.

And, yes, it's by Matt Baker!
Dr Fredric Wertham described it in Seduction of the Innocent as "sexual stimulation by combining 'headlights' with the sadist's dream of tying up a woman."
And...?

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Television Spies"

It may be 1948, but tv was already a national obsession...

 ...and Phantom Lady is about to go in front of the cameras!

Oddly enough, both Don and the criminals have color tvs, when they weren't available commercially until five years later!

And Ringo's cane-camera is a color transmitter, when even portable b/w tv cameras were the size of suitcases!

The superb art for this tale from All Top Comics #10 is, of course, by Matt Baker.

This plot, probably by Ruth Roche, was reused, but totally-redrawn for the Comics Code-approved Phantom Lady #3 in 1955!

We'll be re-presenting that when we get to it in the chronology.

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The issue Fredric Wertham singled-out in Seduction of the Innocent!

Phantom Lady #17!

Both Phantom Lady tales complete and uncut!

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Monster in the Pool"

Sexy women and werewolves...

...long before Twilight or True Blood, the Phantom Lady put her scantly-clad body between lycanthropes and an innocent human race!

The art for this tale from Phantom Lady #16 is by the inimitable Matt Baker, and the story is probably by Ruth Roche.
Supernatural elements would crop up in several more Phantom Lady stories.

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