Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Fire Fiend"

Things get hot for the Voluptuous Vixen of Vengeance...

...as a pyromaniac tries to end the career of the Pulchritudinous Personage!

For God's sake, she doesn't even wear a pair of glasses or a mask, and the guy standing two feet in front of her (in both guises) can't figure out who The Phantom Lady really is?

The somewhat-silly story from All Top Comics #13 is probably by Ruth Roche, while there's no doubt the art is by Matt Baker.

Phantom Lady will be taking a month-long vacation as this (and all the other RetroBlogs™) celebrate October and the Halloween season with horror and monster-oriented tales.

Phantom Lady will return in November...

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Reading Room: JET POWERS "Man in the Moon"

It's been several months since we looked in on Jet Powers and Su Shan...

Some guys really carry a grudge (but provide great expositional dialogue)!

Yeah, Sinn died.

Nothing to worry about.

Won't be seeing him again!

No, siree...

You don't really believe that, do you?
Good, 'cause if you did, you wouldn't be able to read the rest of this series, featuring superb Bob Powell art like this, the second Jet tale from Jet Power #1 (1950).
Watch for more Jet Powers coming soon!

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Case of the Murderous Model"

When Tyra Banks tells models to be "fierce" on America's Top Model, this is not what she means!

At least our voluptuous vixen should hope so!

When you want to see the best examples of "good girl" art, look no further than tales like this from 1948's Phantom Lady #19 by the legendary Matt Baker!

Unfortunately, the script, probably by Ruth Roche, is no more than adequate.

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Reading Room: NOT WHO YOU THINK: "Black Panther"

Prince T'Challa, Marvel's first Black superhero, ruler of Wakanda, husband of Storm, Avenger...

WTF???

1) Who is he?

2) Where did he come from??

3) What are his powers???

4) Why does he have a tail????

Of all those questions, we can only answer #3: Agile as a cat (obviously), expert in hand-to-hand combat, and probably good with the knife he carries.

Since he only made one appearance, in Stars & Stripes #3 (1941) from Centaur Comics, we will never know what his creator, writer/artist Paul Gustavson, had in mind for him.

Gustavson, though not a "big" name, did contribute several long-running characters to Golden Age comics history at Timely (Marvel), Quality, and Centaur, including The Fantom of the Fair (FantoMan), The Human Bomb, The Angel, two archer-heroes; The Arrow and Alias the Spider, and Man of War.

He also worked on Blackhawk, Uncle Sam, and other Quality Comics characters.

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Wine, Women and Sudden Death"

Here's a never-reprinted-in-color tale from Phantom Lady #19...

...about a villain named "Dolls" and a kidnapping-for-ransom ring our buxom bombshell literally stumbles into!

Let's thank (probable) writer Ruth Roche and (definite) illustrator Matt Baker for this titillating tale.

BTW, we were considering what to do for Christmas this year, and we decided to do the Quality Comics multi-part crossover series teaming up Phantom Lady (the green/yellow costumed version) in Police Comics with Spider Widow in Feature Comics! (and there's also appearances by another hero...The Raven!)
Keep an eye out for it in December!

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