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 IW's Great Action Comics #8 (1958), 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!

MORE Phantom Lady action next week!

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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 IW's Daring Adventures #12 (1963),

Art by Joe Simon

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 (sometimes at separate locations) 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!

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Knights of the Crooked Cross!"

MORE Phantom Lady action from her first issue...

Classic "good girl" art by Matt Baker.

The writer is probably Ruth Roche.

The other feature in this issue was a Blue Beetle story, which we'll present in the near future.

The Phantom Lady will return...

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