Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Indian Tiger Murders"

Here's a Phantom Lady story that gives new meaning to the phrase "catfight"!

Despite the caption above, this issue (#23) of Phantom Lady was her last one at Fox Comics.

I find it amazing that Senator Knight doesn't realize his daughter is Phantom Lady.

(I'd given up on Don Borden having more than a couple of functioning brain cells long ago.)

Story probably by Ruth Roche, art likely by Jack Kamen.

This is the first of three stories from the final Fox issue of Phantom Lady.

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Man Who Lost His Stuff"

Spring Training is about to begin for Major League Baseball...

...but, no matter the season, the pulchritudinous Phantom Lady always hits a home run with us!

This tawdry tale from All Top Comics #16 (1949) was probably written by Ruth Roche, definitely penciled and partially-inked by Jack Kamen, and partially-inked by Matt Baker.

Oddly, though the Phantom Lady is based in Washington DC (her dad is a US Senator), the writers didn't use the existing Washington Senators or a surrogate like the "DC Representatives" or the "Washington Congressmen" or somesuch.

For those keeping chronological score, we skipped the second story from Phantom Lady #22, since it featured our heroine traveling to London and getting involved in the 1948 Olympics.

We'll be running that one in late July, around the time the Olympics open.

Next up will be the final Fox Comics issue of Phantom Lady, then her final All Top Comics appearance.

After that, we'll present her Ajax/Farrell stories from both her own title and her back-up tales in Wonder Boy!

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Reading Room NOT WHO YOU THINK: FireBird and Valkyrie

Nope, he's not the female Mighty Avenger, (obviously)...

...and she's not another Mighty Avenger (and former Defender)...

...nor AirBoy's aviatrix nemesis from the 1940s...

...but they are a one-shot hero from the 1940s and his female nemesis in a tale from TailSpin #1 (and only), published in 1944.

I think you'll be able to tell who's who...

"In all his checkered career..."

What "checkered career"?
This was FireBird's only appearance!
The "aviator goggles-helmet and cape" ensemble was used by several heroes including Spy Smasher and the original Phantom Eagle, so it could be a reworked version of one of their tales.

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Case of the Robbing Robot"

It's Maiden of Mystery against Monster of Metal...

...as our favorite barely-clad heroine takes on her first cyber-criminal in this tale from Phantom Lady #22 (1949)

The usual scripted wackiness by Ruth Roche and full pencil/ink art by Jack Kamen who seems to have finally gotten the knack for both storytelling and rendering.
It's not quite on the level of Matt Baker, but close enough.

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Reading Room: JET DREAM "Death Plunge"

It's amazing how, back in the 1960s, an entire tale could fit into only four pages...

...when most of today's writers can't tell a complete story in twenty pages!

Admittedly, it is tight, but everything's there!
Script for this tale from Man from U.N.C.L.E. #11 by Dick Wood, art by Gold Key mainstay Jack Sparling in his only Jet Dream assignment.

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