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 "Eye for an Eye-Witness"

It's about time someone figured out that Sandra Knight is Phantom Lady...

...it's not like the costume really disguises her!

(and this version doesn't even have the distracting cleavage of the Fox Comics costume!)

The villain tells Sandra Knight (whom he believes to be Phantom Lady) to come to an address, where he tries to kill her.
She escapes, changes into Phantom Lady, returns to the same address and the villain freaks out with a "how did you ever find me?" reaction!
And this was the only guy who was smart enough to figure Sandra was, in fact, Phantom Lady?
Geez...

The artist (or artists) of this tale from Phantom Lady #2 (1955) are unknown, but the writer is probably editor Ruth Roche, as usual.

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Reading Room: THE SHADOW "Shiwan Khan's House of Horrors" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Hero...

...why do I even need to show up?

The comic itself does the work for me!

See you at the end of the story...

As of this story from Archie's The Shadow #3 (1964), Jerry Siegel replaced Robert Bernstein as scripter.

Paul Reinman had taken over from John Rosenberger as artist for the remainder of the run, as well as assuming art chores for most of Radio Comics (renamed Mighty Comics' shortly after) line of books including The Mighty Crusaders, and Fly-Man.

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Reading Room: THE SHADOW "Shiwan Khan's House of Horrors" Part 1

In the 1960s, many classic comic and pulp heroes were revived...

...some not quite as successfully as others!

Be here tomorrow for the campy conclusion,

and, as they used to say on Batman...

"The worst is yet to come!"

Penned by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Paul Reinman, this tale from Radio Comics' The Shadow #3 (1964) is easily one of the low points of the career of He Who Knows What Evil...!

Apparently seeing The Shadow adapted to a high-adventure/spy format was not selling in comics as well as it did in paperbacks like this...

...the staff at Radio Comics (Archie Comics' 1960s superhero line) decided to go into full campy superhero mode instead, dumping the cloak and slouch hat and giving him a hideous costume and some gimmicks, while retaining the ability to "cloud mens' minds".
Unfortunately, we still remember these never-reprinted stories...

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Old Shell Game"

Here's a story with our favorite heroine that has a surprise ending...

...because, this time, she's not the only one in an identity-concealing costume!

Transvestite characters weren't a new concept in comic books.

One of the earliest heroes was the first Cat-Man, who dressed as a little old lady to battle crime over fifteen years earlier, as seen HERE and HERE!

By the time of this tale in Phantom Lady #2 (1955), the stories had become a mix of existing unused Fox Comics material and totally-new stories.

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

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