Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Success is No Accident"

For the final time, if the story seems familiar...

...it's because this is yet another re-write of a story of the Fox Comics version of Phantom Lady published several years earlier!

Both ironically and appropriately, this final Phantom Lady tale in Wonder Boy #18 (1955) is based on a story that appeared, not in Phantom Lady, but All Top Comics #9 (1948), entitled "Killer Clown".

This is the final Golden Age Phantom Lady tale on this blog, but it's not the last one in our archives!

There's one more tale, from Phantom Lady #22 (1948), featuring our heroine at the 1948 London Olympics!

It'll appear in our new "sister" blog, Heroines™, when the Olympics open on July 27th!

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Man the Kremlin Applauded"

Though she lost her own title for the second time in 1955, Phantom Lady battled on...

...in new stories as a second feature in Ajax/Farrell's Wonder Boy!

Script for this tale from Wonder Boy #17 (1955) is probably by Ruth Roche.

However, the art is not by Matt Baker, and, while competent, is hardly the classic cheesecake we've come to expect of Phantom Lady!
Be here next week to see Phantom Lady's final Golden Age appearance (not counting reprints)!

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "What Price Protection?"

Once again, if the story seems familiar...

...it's because this is yet another re-write of a story presented in the Fox Comics version of Phantom Lady several years earlier!

The first version of this tale appeared in Fox Publishing's Phantom Lady #17 (1947) and called "Soda Mint Killer", as shown HERE, but it's toned-down both in terms of sexiness and violence in the new version published in Ajax/Farrell's Phantom Lady #4 (1955)!

So both stories in this issue are re-writes of earlier tales!

Script in both versions probably by Ruth Roche.

However, this time the art is not by Matt Baker, and though adequate, is no match for the original!
This was the final issue of Phantom Lady, but not her final Golden Age appearance!
Be here next week to see what we're talking about!

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Meanest Men in the World"

If the story seems familiar...

...it's because this is another re-write of a story presented in the Fox Comics version of Phantom Lady several years earlier!

The first version of this tale appeared in Phantom Lady #15 (1947) as shown HERE, but the idea of crooked real estate agents ripping off returning veterans worked just as well in Ajax/Farrell's Phantom Lady #4 (1955), just changing the war (Korea instead of World War II) the vets were returning from!

Script in both versions probably by Ruth Roche.

However, this time the art is not by Matt Baker, and though adequate, is no match for the original!

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Television Spies" 2.0

We've seen a story originally published with a different heroine...

...now here's a totally-redrawn version of a previous Phantom Lady tale!

In the original 1948 version of this tale, the tv images were in full glorious color, and television was just beginning to enter American households, so few people had actually seen a tv screen!

But, by the time of this story in Phantom Lady #3 (1955), almost half the households in America had tvs, but they were almost all b/w sets.

As a result, the tv screens shown in this version of the story were b/w, the way most Americans experienced video.

The artist (or artists) of this tale are unknown, but the writer is probably editor Ruth Roche, as usual.

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Satan's Seal"

This is one of the most unusual Phantom Lady tales you'll ever read...

...because it wasn't meant to be a Phantom Lady story!

In fact, this story in Ajax/Farrell's Phantom Lady #1 (1954) originally appeared a decade earlier, featuring a different character battling Nazis (not Commies), in another publisher's magazine!

The first version was published in Elliot Comics' Spitfire Comics #132 (1944), starring female spy Spitfire Saunders in the first of only two appearances...

...but we're out of room (and time), so you'll see the complete Spitfire Saunders story tomorrow!

Besides, you'll probably want to open both entries in side-by-side tabs or windows so you can compare the stories!

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