Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Army of the Walking Dead"

From Phantom Lady #15: Matt Baker "good girl" art!  Zombies! Doctor Crime!

The splash page of the story is the inside cover of the comic, with only two colors.

Oh, did we mention ZOMBIES???

Enjoy...

"America comes first, even before Dad!"--Phantom Lady's Words to Live By!
Doctor Crime (not to be confused with The Crime Doctor), despite being the first supervillain the Fox incarnation of Phantom Lady fought, never returned.
When this story was reprinted as the cover feature in Great Action Comics #8, the splash page was left out, because the reprint publisher didn't have the cover printing plates, only the interiors for this issue!
As a result, the editor retitled the story "The Zombie".
The new cover was a combination of two redrawn story panels and a badly-rendered (and mis-colored) Phantom Lady.
The cover art is attributed in the Grand Comics Database to Jack Abel and Sol Brodsky.

Next: The Phantom Lady fights a villain who could be ripped from today's headlines: the fiend named Foreclose!

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Shroud for the Bride"

This final tale from Phantom Lady #14 doesn't stint on what "good girl" artist Matt Baker does best...scantly-clad women and catfights!

MUCH MORE Phantom Lady action to come!

Next week: Zombies and her first supervillain: Dr Crime!

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Condemned Venus"

The scantly-clad femme fatale who freaked-out Fredric Wertham is back in the second Matt Baker-illustrated tale from Phantom Lady #14 which features her behind bars, though not in a womens' prison!  Darn!

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Vortex of Scoundrels and Scandal!"

Page 1 is the book's 2-color inside cover.

More Matt Baker "good girl" art in the first of three stories from Phantom Lady #14!
Enjoy!

When this story was reprinted as the cover feature in Daring Adventures #12, the splash page was left out, because the reprint publisher didn't have the cover printing plates, only the interiors for this issue!
FYI: Covers (on slick paper) and insides (on newsprint) are printed on separate presses and combined later.
Because the splash page was missing, the reprint editor didn't know the original title, and renamed the story "The Great Stamp Robbery"!
The splash page above is blue and black, not four-color, because, until recently, inside covers of comics were either b/w or 2-color, with the second color being either cyan (blue, as in this case) or magenta (pinkish-red).
Since the plates for the cover weren't available, a new cover by Joe Simon was commissioned, which was nowhere as nice as the original Matt Baker cover, and features Sandra Knight's boyfriend Ted being much more heroic than in the actual story!
You can see one of Matt Baker's 1950s romance stories at our sister blog True Love Comics Tales.
For those interested in writer Ruth Roche and / or artist Matt Baker, the books below will be of interest.

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