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Back in August 2016, Lightning Strike Comics Partnered with Dublin Comic Con and Pulse College to create a special 80th anniversary book featuring the world's first comic-strip superhero, Lee Falk's 'The Phantom'.
This book features various different creators and was intended to be a publishing debut for many rising artists and writers.
The publication was produced with the permission of King Features Syndicate and was the first of several other Phantom stories to be published by LS.
You can now read the PDF of this book, for free, by pressing on the button below.
All sales of this book were donated to The Children's Health Foundation which you can still donate to here .
Creators include:
David Williams... Introduction
Lee Falk and Ray Moore... Phantom Origin Strip
Robin Jones... Letter and Logo Design
Derek Keogh... Writer
Sean Hill...Writer
Sinead O'Neill.. Writer
John O'Reilly... Writer
Jerry Higgins... Writer
Johnny McMonagle... Artist
Ashwin Chacko... Artist
Arif Iqbal... Artist
David McDonagh... Artist
Roisin Young... Artist
Karol O'Rowe... Artist
Stephen Carey... Letterer
Cian Tormey... Artist
Chris O'Halloran... Colours
Apr 17, 2009
- Lee Falk’s Phantom-1: Origins of Ghost Who Walks
So, if you have been following the posts, I tried to base them on different genres and variety of publishers, to fulfil that dream. And I was thinking that I was doing a fair job so far on that account. But, the reality was about to strike.
We were all eager to experience our first encounter with a real Computer, but our Teacher had other ideas. “How many of you know Typewriting?”, He asked. After seeing the mum faces, he added “How do you expect to learn something which was invented a decade back, when you haven’t learnt the one invented centuries ago?”. There is no much difference between the question then and now.
In both cases, the fact which comes to fore is that we can’t talk or try to learn about something without exploring its roots. Just like when we talk about costumed superheroes and their impact on Comics on a whole, we can’t skip past the first-ever in their lineage, long before The Shadow, Superman, and the likes, the legendary Phantom .
The No-Show of Phantom on Comicology, could be attributed to many reasons, top of which is that there are no publications which are actively publishing Phantom in India, at present. But, does that really make you forget the legacy of Phantom. Oh No!. I for one, who was mesmerised by this comic character, right from my childhood, can’t think so at the least. So, let me try to make some amends with a series of exclusive posts on the Phantom, as a Tribute to the legendary creator, Lee Falk . I agree it’s ambitious project in its own rights, but let me make an attempt to do it with all its merits.
Right from his school days Falk is known to have a likening towards writing, as he used contribute stories, articles and poems for his school and college newspapers. His extreme command over English, even let him dream to become an English Professor, something which he never pursued later. After completing the education, he started his career as a copywriter for a local advertising agency in early 1930’s.
It was such a craze that they even dedicated 36 pages to it on Sundays, which was famously termed as Comics Section . This enormous need meant that these were also lucrative times for syndication companies, who were involved with providing comic strips, cartoons, and special features. These syndicates paved way for many great comic creators to come on the horizon in 1930s, which included legends like - Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) , Al Capp (Li’l Abner) , Chester Gold (Dick Tracy), and Chick Young (Blondie) .
In the same year, Falk successfully negotiated a deal with King Features Syndicate , and the comic strip featuring an unlikely hero in the form of a magician, went on to become a huge hit, prompting the syndicate to ask Falk into creating another comic series for their line-up. In reply, Falk first proposed a concept featuring King Arthur and his famous knights, but King Features was reluctant to feature a medieval age series that time.
Phantom & His Early Secret Identity : The Original Idea of Falk, was to portray the character of The Phantom, as an secret identity to a Rich playboy by the name of Jimmy Wells . This is how the character eventually made its debut in “The Singh Brotherhood”, the first-ever Phantom Daily Strip on Feb 17, 1936 .
He leaves enough clues for the readers to diffuse the link between the mysterious Phantom and neat-cloth Wells. But Falk took utmost care as to not reveal this openly in any of the strips.
Falk continued to draw Phantom for a couple of weeks from his debut, but then recruited artist Raymond Moore , who was then an assistant to Phil Davis in Mandrake strips, to don the Phantom artist role. But you could still see the style of Falk, as he continued to do the layout for the strip for several weeks, before handing over the complete artistic duties to Moore, deciding to concentrate his fledgling writing career, which had touched further medium like Theatres, and Novels.
Mid-way through the first Phantom comic strip adventure, The Singh Brotherhood , Falk decided that he would like to position Phantom away from a city background. Little did he know that at the time of this thinking, his original concept of running the daily strips for a couple of years, was about to be turned into a legendary character in the comics business.
The fact that he didn’t reveal Jim Wells, as the man behind Phantom’s mask, helped him to concentrate on rewriting the origin, which saw Phantom being moved the African jungles. The character of Jimmy Wells was about to be forgotten for ever.
Now that he had rebooted the origin, he then explained in the following day’s strips, where Dr. James Dodd, explains his childhood stories having encountered Phantom 70 years back, only to be later ascertained him to have a legacy as old as 400 years. The seeds for a fascinating story was laid in fruition with these scenes of the first Phantom adventure.
> Devil - the Mountain wolf, which often accompanies Phantom in many of his missions as a trusted ally,
> The mysterious Skull Cave inside the deep jungle, the Home of Phantom, and
As the Singh Pirates story reaches its Climax, the readers get a glimpse of Phantom’s legacy, as 21st Phantom is shown explaining his origin, for the first time, to Diana Palmer, his lady-love.
A young noble, Sir Christopher Standish (which was later changed to Christopher Walker, the name which has remained ever-after, and said to have been born in 1516), charters on a ship down the Old Thames, in search of far more lands. He is accompanied by his old father, Christopher Sr.. In later stories, the origin was rewritten, which said that the Christopher Jr. was the ship-boy (to make him look younger), and Christopher Standish/Walker. was the Captain of the ship.
After many months of hard-ship and adventures their ships gets attacked by Oriental Chinese pirates (which was later changed to Singh Brotherhood) somewhere in the Bay of Bengal. Christopher sees his old father slain before his eyes, but their misery is put to rest, as a typhoon strikes and destroys both the ships. Christopher the sole survivor of the ships, then manages to sail with a make-shift raft travelling weeks and weeks to reach a remote shore. Which is what later known to readers, as Bengala.
He is then saved by the Bandars, a secret tribe of Pygmies, who had never seen a white man before. Christopher later discovers the body of a pirate being washed ashore, wearing his fathers attire. He then takes an Oath on the Skull of the pirate that he and his descendants will fight the Singh in particular, and Crime in general. Pygmies had an Prophecy, which stated that a White from the seas will free them of slavery, and believed that it was Christopher himself. The one which Christopher did accomplish, in the process teaching Pygmies the art of Poisonous Arrows, and the entire tribe and the men from the jungle, began referring him as ‘The Phantom’.
As this change-over happens in secrecy, the world outside sees and fears Phantom, as the single person who has wandered the world for all 400+ years, thus bringing him the famous nick-name “The Ghost Who Walks”. This centuries of fantasized living, earns Phantom a lot of Old saying or prophecies, one of which terms that anyone who sees the face of Phantom without mask, will suffer a terrible death. Something, which helps the Phantom to maintain his secrecy in in numerous battles.
The Singh Brotherhood, the first-ever Phantom comic strip, ran until November 07, 1936, a total of 38 weeks, thus easily making it one of the longest comic strip adventures of Phantom, ever. By the end of the first adventure Falk had taken the legacy of Phantom to a great level among comic fans.
He also confesses that he bought in some of the ideas of the Edgar Rice Burroughs ’s Tarzan, which talks about a white-man of English origin living among the African natives, and learning their customs and mastery, by being one among them. But Falk had denied that he used the later Tarzan comic strips, to base his character, as he termed them as not the best adaptation to the legendary Tarzan novels. A fact I acknowledge to till date, after having witnessed many comics series, not being impressed of it so far.
But that was not all, Falk was still not convinced with the origin stories, even after a couple of years into the Phantom Daily strip, as he went about changing them one by one slowly. As per his early stories, The first Phantom was English, as was the 21st Phantom, obviously. He also says that he was educated in Oxford, further claiming his English origins. There were references to Bay of Bengal in many places, meaning that the remote land he referred to was most likely India.
The legend also meant that unlike other caped crusaders of his time, Phantom was not linked to one generation, thus giving the writers the freedom to base their stories with either the current 21st Phantom in the modern era, or choose to feature stories on the earlier Phantoms, who are often shown walking or being part of the historical events in the past.
The earliest success to the series also owes much to the art of Ray Moore, who had a classic touch of drawing the Phantom strips, which to date remains the best example for defining the Phantom to all the later artists, till date. Phantom comic strip, grew from strength to strength, even managing to appear in few collected comic book formats, albeit a few. But, the series success eventually managed to land it on the first colored strip on Sunday newspapers starting from May 1939.
What relations did Batman have with Phantom ? What was the impact of Phantom Sunday Strips over the legacy of Phantom ? Did Ray Moore continue to handle the artistic work for Phantom all the years single-handed ?
Answers to them will be continued in our next review post of Phantom soon on Comicology: Lee Falk’s Phantom–2: The Colored Years, and the Competition .
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ரஃபிக், விறு விறுப்பான ஒர் தொடர் கதை வாசித்த உணர்வு, பதிவின் இறுதியில் வேதாளனின் கதைகளில் வருவதைப் போன்று, [வயக்கரா தாத்தாவின் காதல் அணைப்பிலிருந்து டயானாவை வேதாளர் மீட்க முடிந்ததா]சில சஸ்பென்ஸ் வினாக்களுடன் தொடரும் போட்டு விட்டீர்கள், அடுத்த பதிவுவாக இதன் தொடர்ச்சியை பதிவிட முடியுமா. 1934களில் மாண்ட்ரெக் உருவாக்கத்தில் ஆரம்பித்து, வேதாளனுடன் இணைந்து கொண்ட லீ ஃபால்க்கின் பயணம் பற்றிய தகவல்கள் அருமையாக இருந்தது. ஷேக்ஸ்பியர் போன்ற தோற்றத்தில் வரையப்பட்டிருப்பது ஃபால்க்கா, அச்சித்திரத்திலுள்ள மொழி புரியவில்லை என்பதாலேயே இச் சந்தேகம். வெள்ளையும், சொள்ளையுமாக துரை மிடுக்கில் நிற்கும் குரனின் படம் சூப்பர். வழமையாக கவர்ச்சி போஸ் தரும் குரனை இப்படிக் காண்பது ஒர் இன்ப அதிர்ச்சியே. மிக நீண்ட காலமாக டயானாவே வேதாளனின் துணைவியாக சித்தரிக்கப் படுகிறார். இதில் ஏதாவது மாற்றங்கள் உண்டா. டயானாவை பல ராஜாக்கள் கடத்தி சென்றிருக்கிறார்கள் ஆனால் அவரோ வேதாளனை மட்டுமே விரும்புவார். என்ன ஒர் காதல். வேதாளனின் சொர்க்கம் எனும் ஒர் கதையில் அவருடைய விலங்கு சரணாலயம் ஒன்றைப் பற்றி படித்ததாக ஞாபகம், ராட்சத விலங்கு எனும் கதையில் ஒர் வகை டினோசார் போன்ற மிருகத்தினையும் அவர் காப்பாற்றுவார். வேதாளர் பிராணிகளில் அன்பு கொண்டவர் ஆனால் புலியையும் சிங்கத்தினையும் ஒரு கையால் தூக்கி அடிப்பவர் போன்ற ஒர் சித்திரத்தினையும் பார்த்திருக்கிறேன். கால மாற்றத்திற்கேற்ப கதைகளில் மாற்றம் செய்தல், வாசகர்களின் கருத்துக்களை காதில் போட்டுக் கொண்டு தகவல்களை திருத்தல் என லீ ஃபால்க் ஒர் நல்ல கலைஞராகவே செயற்பட்டுள்ளார். அருமையான தேடல்களுடன், உங்கள் பாணியில் மீண்டும் ஒர் சிறந்த பதிவு. உற்சாகத்துடன் தொடருங்கள்.
தம்பி ரஃபிக், இன்று தான் உனக்கு என் ஞாபகம் வந்ததா. ஒவ்வொரு முறையும் இப்பதிவின் பக்கம் நான் வரும் போதெல்லாம் என் முகமூடி நனைய நான் கண்ணீர் விட்டிருக்கிறேன். டெவிலும் தன் பங்கிற்கு குரைத்து தன் ஆட்சேபணையை தெரிவிக்கும். ஆனால் இன்று என் வாழ்வின் மகிழ்சியான நாள் என்று கூற எனக்கு ஆசையே ஆனால் கயவன் வயக்கரா தாத்தா என் கண்மனி டயானாவை மயக்கி, என்னிடமிருந்து வஞ்சகமாக அபகரித்து சென்று விட்டான் அவனிற்கு சில பல முத்திரை மோதிரங்கள் பதித்தி விட்டு வருகிறேன்.
அன்பின் ரஃபிக், நான் விரும்பியே வயக்கரா தாத்தாவுடன் வந்தேன். அவர் என்னைக் கடத்தி வரவில்லை. நான், அவர் என்னைக் கடத்த வேண்டுமென்றே விரும்பினேன், அவர் உத்தமர் என்பதால் அவ்வாறு செய்யவில்லை. டார்லிங் வேதாளன் என்னைத் தேட வேண்டாம்,நான் இங்கு சிலிர்த்துப் போய் இருக்கிறேன். நீங்கள் செய்யாத பல விடயங்களை அவர் எனக்கு செய்கிறார். இனி நீங்கள் எனக்கு தேவையில்லை, வருகிறேன்.
அம்மிணி டயானா, தயவு செய்து உப்புமா செய் முறையை தாருங்கள், இங்கே நாங்கள் எல்லாரும் பட்டினியாக கிடக்கிறோம்.வயக்கரா தாத்தாவிற்கு அஸிஸ்டண்ட் யாராவது தேவையாயின் எனக்கு டபாரம் அடியுங்கள்.
வவ் வவ் வவ்- வயக்கரா தாத்தா தந்த பிஸ்கட் மாதிரி இதுவரைக்கும் நான் சாப்பிட்டதேயில்லை, நல்ல சுவையா இருக்கு. ஆனா பொம்பள அனிமல்ஸ் எல்லாம் எனக்கு பக்கத்தால போறப்ப உடம்பு ஏன் டப்புன்னு சூடாவுது என்றது புரியலயேங்கண்ணா- வவ் வவ் வவ்
that was some post, tbh havent read a phantom books since school, while studying abroad , my vacation here in indai were filled wit reading comics of phantom and mandrake.. moslty , tinkle too was on the list, but having read the indrajal comics ,knew abt some history abt the phantom but now thanks to this blog , got to learn a lot more of lee falk and how the character came to being, yes thers a lot in common to tarzan. but totally different concept, between the both i would always choose a phantom comis if i was asked to choose 1 frm 2 comics. the art plots , like having ur secret snacutary a horse , wolf and all the skills u need for a fist to fist fight, i love the wordins,, phantome moves faster than lightning when he shoots .lol, all were a part of young kids imagination for our generation, long live phantom.. i wonder how many of todays kids would take to phantom, mayb they need to release a computer game.. on ps3
அன்புச் சகோதரன் ரஃபிக், வேதாளன் என்னுடன் மோதத் தயாரா?! ஒரே ஒர் நிபந்தனை. அவர் தோற்றால் குரன் செல்லம் எனக்கு.
Wonderful post. Thanks!
@ Siv: I don't want to cut down your enthusiasm, but just to add that I would be more happy if had also left a comment about the post or your personal feelings with the Phantom character along with. :)
@ Shankar: நன்றி நண்பரே. உண்மையிலயே சமீப காலங்களில் என்னை அதிகம் வேலை வாங்கியது இந்த வேதாளர் பதிவுதான். லீ பால்க்கின் அமர கதாபாத்திரத்தை பற்றி பதிந்தால் அந்த பளு அவ்வளவு கஷ்டமாக தெரியவில்லை. உங்கள் கருத்துகள் மூலம் அது இன்னும் எளிதாக காட்டியதற்கு நன்றிகள். உங்கள் ஆர்வத்தை நானும் ரசித்தாலும், வேதாளர் பதிவு அதிகம் வேளை வாங்குவதால், மாதம் ஒன்று என்ற வரிசையில் அதை இட்டு முடிக்க முயல்கிறேன்.... மொத்தம் 3 அல்லது 4 தொடர் பதிவுகள் இட இப்போதைக்கு உத்தேசம். ஷேக்ஸ்பியர் தோற்றத்தில் இருப்பது சாட்சாத் நம் பால்க்கே தான். அவரின் வாழ்க்கை குறிப்பு ஒன்றில் இருந்து எடுத்த படம். அந்த படத்திலேயே பால்க் என்று ஒரு வார்த்தை இருக்கிறதே. குரானை இந்த தோற்றத்தில் மிக சிலரே வரைந்ததாக நியாபகம்.... இதிலும் அவர் கலக்குகிறார் தானே. வேதாளரின் விலங்கு சரணாலயமும் நம் தொடர் பதிவில் தோன்றும் நண்பரே... உங்கள் பாணியில் கூற வேண்டும் என்றால் தொடருங்கள் உங்கள் ஆதரவை. :)
வேதாளன், டயானா, குரன்,டெவில் என்று சொந்தம் சகிதம் வருகை தந்த வேதாளர் குடும்ப உருப்பினர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் நன்றிகள். பதிவை சிறப்பித்து விட்டீர்கள்..... குரனுக்கு ஆனால் வயக்கரா தாத்தா அசிஸ்டென்ட் வேலை கிடைக்க வாய்ப்பில்லை. அது டயானாவிற்கு வேண்டுமானாலும் கிடைக்கலாம். ஆனால் வேதாளர் சும்மா விட மாட்டார். :) டெவில்லுக்கு ஒரு ஸ்பெஷல் பதில் வவ் வவ்... :) டார்ஜான் அவர்களே போயும் போயும் குரானுக்காகவா சண்டை போடனும்.... போட்டால் டயானாவுக்காக போடலாமே..... சரி சரி ஜேன் கோபித்து கொள்ள போகிறார் என்று நீங்கள் மறைமுகமாக கேட்டு வைத்ததை சொல்ல மாட்டேன்.
@ LIJU: Thanks for another detailed comment buddy. Good that I became a source for your Phantom character enrichment. I should admit also that the Phantom titles which I read durign school days are the one which are still cherished till todate. That childhood fantasy with Phantom characterisation is an irreplaceable feeling. I still get the same enthu whenever I read more about Phantom, and this post only helped to further enhance that desire. The Old jungle sayings did add all the meaning to the Phantom characters... we will see a list of them in the coming post.... they are almost like real myth It's better Phantom stays away from PS3 or Computer Games.. I know they would be killed and dethrown if they ever make an attempt... Maybe kids could be more well served, if we could deliver some animation Phantom stories then those stupid game consoles....:) Thanks again for a well constructed comment with personal touch all along. @ Prabhat: Thanks for the visit and the comment buddy. No wonder, Phantom is indeed a great comic character among all comic fans.
Rafiq, This post transported me back to my school days. Vacation time was full of Mandrake, Phantom, Asterix and Tintin. I loved the "old jungle sayings" and the whole mystery behind how the phantom never seemed to age! :) Please post an article on Asterix comics when you get the time.
@ Sunil: The man from sunnykris.net is here. Thanks for marking your presence at Comicology. Indeed Phantom has enthralled and enthused generations, no wonder I find another in you. Old Jungle Sayings, the Legacy, the Old Diary Archives..... wht else could you ask for. I will try to cover them as we go through our series of posts on Phantom, sooner. Mandrake, Asterix and TinTin are my favorites too... We will surely look into Asterix, after we clear up the current set of special posts. Hope to see your presence and comment more often at Comicology. Happy Reading !! P.S.: Your blog is one of the few places I hang out for Webcomic. Keep up the good job.
@comicology: excellent background for the blog...that Phantom poster is awesome
@ TCP : Good to have you back. It's indeed stunning piece of work on Phantom, isn't it? Graham Nolan's experience in working for Batman seem to have paid rich dividend on Phantom. Any comments about this comic post, in general? Good, Bad, Ugly ?? :)
interesting! Especially when I myself was working on a Phantom Batman comparo for http://understandingcomix.blogspot.com/. But well, good stuff here and overall. A lot of hardwork, dedication and above all love for comics! keep it up!
@ GK: Thanks for your return visit and comment. Phantom vs Batman is indeed the topic for the next Phantom post in this series, and no wonder you thought of the same topic for your blog. Phantom will always be a favorite comic character for Indian fans, no wonder how it is considered in its Birth country at the moment. Hope to see you more often at other blog posts at Comicology. Happy Reading !
k, I came in late and probably the news that I am sharing now may be out dated. For those who are thriving to get hold of few Phantom comics can try with http://www.diamondcomic.com/. They have a handful titles left out of old stock. I ordered 3 books as a test at the rate of Rs.30 each and received the books within 4 days. Will be ordering the rest in a day or two. Though the cover pages are not up to the standards, the album is good and each book has two stories filled with action. Hope ya guys will love em, if ya don't mind the paper quality too ;) Cheers!!!
Rafiq, This post transported me back to my school days. Vacation time was full of Mandrake, Phantom, Asterix and Tintin. I loved the "old jungle sayings" and the whole mystery behind how the phantom never seemed to age! :) Please post an article on Asterix comics when you get the time.
Great post, thanks.
at least one fact is inaccurate, The Shadow did not come after the Phantom. Issue 1 of the Shadow Magazine was April 1931
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The Phantom is a long-running American adventure comic strip, first published by Mandrake the Magician creator Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla. The character has been adapted for television, film and video games.
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Lee Falk (born Leon Harrison Gross , April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strip heroes The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician , who at the height of their popularity secured him over a hundred million readers every day. He was also a playwright and theatrical director/producer, leading him to direct actors such as Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Chico Marx, and Ethel Waters. Falk also contributed to a series of novels about the Phantom.
- 1 Life and career
- 2 Creating Mandrake and The Phantom
- 4 Awards and recognition
- 6 Appearances with his creations
- 7.1.1 Daily stories
- 7.1.2 Sunday stories
- 7.1.3.1 Gold Key/King/Charlton stories
- 7.1.3.2 Team Fantomen stories
- 7.1.3.3 Fratelli Spada stories
Life and career
Leon was born in St. Louis, where he spent his childhood and youth. His mother was Eleanor Alina (a name he would later on, in some form, use in both Mandrake and Phantom stories), and his father was Benjamin Gross. Both of his parents were Jewish. Benjamin Gross died when Leon was a child, and Eleanor remarried to Albert Falk Epstein, who became Leon's father figure in life.
Leon changed his surname after leaving college. He took the middle name of his stepfather (Albert Falk Epstein), but "Lee" had been his nickname since childhood. His brother, Leslie, also took the name "Falk" around the same time.
When he began his comics writing career, his official biography claimed that he was an experienced world traveller who had studied with Eastern mystics, etc. In fact, he had simply made it up in order to seem more like the right kind of person to be writing about globe-trotting heroes like Mandrake and the Phantom; the trip to New York to pitch Mandrake the Magician to King Features Syndicate was at the time the farthest he'd been from home. In later life, however, he became an experienced world traveller for real - at least partly, he said, to avoid the embarrassment of having his bluff inadvertently called by genuine travellers wanting to swap anecdotes.
During World War 2, Lee also worked as chief of propaganda for the new radio station KMOX in Illinois, where he became the leader of the radio foreign language division of the Office of War Information.
Lee Falk married three times, with Louise Kanasireff, Constance Moorehead Lilienthal, and Elizabeth Moxley (interestingly, he married Elizabeth, a respected stage-director, not long before he decided to marry the Phantom and his longtime girlfriend Diana Palmer in The Phantom strip). Elizabeth would sometimes help Lee with the scripts in his last years. She also finished his last Phantom stories after he died. Lee became the father of three children, Valerie (daughter of Louise Kanasireff), and Diane and Conley (children of Constance Moorehead Lilienthal).
Lee died because of heart failure in 1999. He lived the last years of his life in New York, in an apartment with a panoramic view of the New York skyline and Central Park;and,lived during the summers in a house on Cape Cod. He literally wrote his comic strips from 1934 to the last days of his life, when in hospital he tore off his oxygen mask to dictate his stories. However, his two characters, Mandrake and, in particular, The Phantom, are still active and popular, both in comic books and comic strips.
Creating Mandrake and The Phantom
Lee had a fascination for stage magicians ever since he was a kid. Lee, according to himself, sketched the first few Mandrake strips himself. When asked why the magician looked so much like himself, he replied, “Well, of course he did. I was alone in a room with a mirror when I drew him!”
The Phantom was inspired by Falk’s fascination for myths and legends, like the ones about El Cid, King Arthur, Nordic and Greek folklore, and popular fictional characters like Tarzan and Mowgli from The Jungle Book. Falk originally tinkered with the idea of calling his character The Gray Ghost, but finally decided that he preferred The Phantom. Lee revealed in an interview that Robin Hood, who often wore tights in the stories about him, inspired the skin-tight costume of the Phantom, which is known to have influenced the entire superhero-industry. In the A&E Phantom biography, he also told that Greek busts inspired the idea of the Phantom’s pupils not showing when he wore his mask. The Greek busts had no pupils, which Falk felt gave them an inhuman, interesting look. It is known that the look of the Phantom inspired the look of what has today become known as superheroes.
Lee thought that his comic strips would last a few weeks at best. Still, he ended up writing them for 65 years, until the last days of his life.
Lee's biggest passion was the theatre. During a lifetime, he ran 5 theaters, and produced around 300 plays, and directed 100 of them. He wrote 12 plays, two of them musicals; "Happy Dollar" and "Mandrake the Magician", based on his comic strip creation. After Lee's death, his widow Elizabeth directed a musical called "Mandrake the Magician and the Enchantress", which was written by Lee, which was essentially the same as the previous "Mandrake the Magician" musical. Some of his plays starred well known actors like Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston,Celeste Holm, Constance Moorehead, Basil Rathbone, Chico Marx, Ethel Waters, Paul Newman, Ezio Pinza, James Mason, Jack Warner, Shelley Winters, Farley Granger, Eve Arden, Alexis Smith, Victor Jory, Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Marie Saint, Eva Gabor, Sarah Churchill, James Donn, Eddie Bracken, Ann Corio, Robert Wilcox, and Paul Robeson.
The actors were all paid to perform, but many of them worked on fractions on what they would normally earn with their movie work. Lee was proud to tell that Marlon Brando turned down an offer of $10 000 a week to act on Broadway, in favor of working for Lee in Boston in 1953 in the play "Arms and the Man". His Boston contract was less than $500 a week.
Awards and recognition
Lee won many awards for his dedication to the field of writing for comics and theatre. Here are a selected few of them:
- The Yellow Kid Award (1971)
- The Roman Lifetime Achievement Award
- The Adamson Award for best foreign comics creator (Sweden, 1977)
- The Golden Adamson (Sweden, 1986)
- Silver T-Square Award (Reuben Award, 1986)
- In May 1994, his birthplace St. Louis honored him with Lee Falk Day.
On the premiere of The Phantom movie starring Billy Zane , Lee received a letter from President Bill Clinton, congratulating him with his achievements.
Lee Falk has also been a candidate for the St. Louis Walk of Fame many times, but has so far not reached enough votes from the committee.
"I give 100% of my time to theatre, and what's left goes to comics..."
(When asked about his age): "Never older than age thirty-nine."
"My only politics is up with democracy and down with dictatorships."
"Each artist, out of his own interests and imagination, creates his own world in his strip - this is true of Peanuts, Beetle Bailey, Popeye, all good strips. And you accomplish this not by imitating others - you come up with your own idea. To me, The Phantom and Mandrake are very real - much more than the people walking around whom I don't see very much. You have to believe in your own characters."
"The Phantom is a marvelous role model because he wins against evil. Evil does not triumph against the Phantom... He hates dictatorship and is in favor of democracy. He is also opposed to any violation of human rights."
Appearances with his creations
Lee Falk's likeness has been used a couple of times in Phantom stories. He appears as the author Leo in " The Mystery on Cape Cod " and as another author in the fight against the Triads.
In the daily story " The Phantom at Sea " he appeared as himself narrating the events of the previous story, something that he did for every new story in the five story arc that began with " The Death of Diana Palmer Walker ".
Phantom work by Lee Falk
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A flashback to 1936 when lee falk used india as the original setting for his series..
The first Phantom comic, featuring the legendary superhero with his now clearly identifiable face mask, and jumpsuit (blue or purple) who lived deep in the jungles of Bangalla, appeared in 1936, where the Phantom, the alias of Kit Walker, takes on the Singh Brotherhood. Bangalla’s location – and Lee Falk in fact first went with Bengali – was always uncertain. Initially Falk was himself ambiguous, deliberately so, about its whereabouts, though considering that the Singh Brotherhood’s undersea base was in the Java Sea, near Krakatan (the old name for the famous volcano), Bangalla posed a certain resemblance to Bengal, till the clarifications and changes were introduced.
But such ambiguities remain a staple of the early Phantom comics, accounting for, perhaps, as some Phantom theorists have speculated, on his strange popularity outside the US rather than in the country of his origin. Phantom enthusiasts, and they are legion, have pointed to an anomaly – despite his superhero status, predating Superman and Batman, the Phantom wasn’t quite in the same league as these later heroes who came a few years later. It could be that the Phantom wasn’t “American” enough since he lived somewhere obscure, or that the villains he battled were not easily relatable to (at that time), unlike the grim, clearly urban, even alien-sounding, evil-doers the Superman and Batman fought.
When Lee Falk submitted his first idea for the Phantom, he was to some extent a desperate man. An earlier concept, when he wanted to resurrect the old Arthurian legend, had been rejected and so he offered the Phantom – a superman who had a mix of the very modern and the mythical; all of which Falk was to sort out via numerous back stories as the series took on a long and enchanted life.
Twin villains of an Oriental kind
The Singh brotherhood was a cabal with ancient rites of belonging; its hideout was located deep in the Java Sea. Its leader Kabai Singh, the Phantom’s bête noire, appears, if you place the images alongside each other, to be modelled around the evil character of Dr Fu Manchu, the (clearly oriental) villain of the popular series created in 1913 by Sax Rohmer.
The first Fu Manchu movies were made in the late 1920s, only a few years before the Phantom himself appeared. The villain was portrayed as an evil genius who had at his service dacoits and thuggees of clear Indian persuasion and different secret societies dating from the time of the Boxer rebellion in China. These loyalists would, at Fu Manchu’s behest, carry out missions aided by poisonous germs or natural chemicals, and even, on occasion, venomous cobras, and sinuous pythons.
Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie, clear Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson alternates, were in the war to bring Fu Manchu to justice. It was Agent Smith who described Fu Manchu as the “yellow peril incarnate” – a description that soon came to have several unfortunate connotations.
For all this, there is that clear resemblance between Kabai Singh and Fu Manchu , complete with their turbans, long robes, and what came to be called the “ Fu Manchu moustache ” – a facial addition that appeared not in the book but in the first film adaptations of the Fu Manchu books. The moustache became part of the stereotyped accoutrement associated with Oriental villains in Western cinema.
The first movie of the series appeared in the late 1920s. But it was the 1932 film, The Mask of Fu Manchu , that earned American filmmakers and its government severe Chinese opprobrium, particularly when in one frame Fu Manchu is seen urging a varied “Asian” collective to wage war against the West.
The strange land of Bangalla
In one of these early Fu Manchu stories by Rohmer, Smith travels to the forests of Burma and is almost decapitated by a poisoned arrow. Arrows, the secret poison they contain and Bangalla (Bengali) itself, not far from Burma, appeared in the first Phantom comic.
The Skull Cave, located deep in its forests, is where the Phantom returns to recover from an injury after having successfully battled the Brotherhood. Bengali was where the tribe called the Bandars stayed – you can see how Falk carried political incorrectness all the way, and had a lot to make up for in the later comics. Indeed, in later versions from the 1970s onward, Bangalla moved to the African east coast, close to Kenya and Zanzibar.
The only other time Bangalla appeared in known historical writing was in a book written a hundred years and more before Falk’s writing of the Phantom comic. A British businessman, John Ranking, based in India and Russia, and convinced of the genuine historicity of his efforts, wrote Historical Researches on the Wars and Sports of the Mongols and Romans in 1825, which mentions Bangalla as being located at the mouth of the Ganges, at the eastern end of Bengal itself.
He makes outlandish claims, such as its kings being Abyssinian slaves. Bangalla, Ranking writes, was conquered by the great Mongol, Kublai Khan. It is the vast horde of elephants that Kublai Khan acquired following his victory that served his army well in later campaigns as far afield as Siberia in the north and up to the borders of the Roman Empire in the west. That elephant (mammoth) skeletons have been found in these places, Ranking wrote, attested to the fact that these animals appeared in Europe even earlier than was believed, all thanks to Kublai Khan’s endeavours.
The first Phantom comic in India appeared in March 1964, when Indrajal Comics began a series featuring him. Besides English, these appeared in other languages too. Some names and places were suitably changed: Bengali became Denkali, or even Dangalla, for instance.
The search for ambergris
The Phantom intervenes against the Brotherhood when his lady love Diana Palmer, a champion undersea diver, is kidnapped for her precious cargo of ambergris. Ambergris was a greatly valued and much sought after commodity, and one of the chief reasons why whale-hunting began in an organised fashion from the early nineteenth century onward.
Ambergris, it is believed, is obtained as a “throw up”, and secreted in the intestines of the great sperm whale. In great demand from the world’s perfume industry, it has featured in adventure novels before – most especially in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851), when one of the crew members of the whaling ship Pequod mentions a dead sperm whale that would yield them a rich harvest of ambergris, which it does. On his sixth voyage, as Richard Burton the explorer has it, Sindbad the Sailor enters a stream flowing out of a cave, and finds it full of precious stones and ambergris.
And in a work written in 1881 – A Romance of Perfumed Lands or The Search for Captain Jacob Cole (with interesting facts about perfumes and articles used in the toilet), by Frank Sanford Clifford (or Clifford Perfumer) – a voyage around the world in search of the world’s fragrances leads from America to lands as far afield as Africa and India (Bengal and Shimla), where its yogis and holy men have the power to derive perfumes out of nature, and where the perfumery industry is thriving.
It is here, away from the Irish coast that the intrepid sailor Jean, complete with diver’s equipment (including a lamp to produce electricity underwater) and also a tube to enable conversation with those on board the ship, descends to the bottom of the sea. Ambergris is apparently produced, Jean explained, from the faeces of the sperm whale. But a fictional character is not expected to be scientifically correct. The ambergris he sends up has bones embedded in it, because of the whale’s habit of consuming tons of the beaked cuttlefish.
Whale hunting has been banned in most countries now; ambergris, however, continues to yield a rich haul to its finders as happened most recently in Wales .
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Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross (1911 - 1999), was an American writer, theater director and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strips The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician. At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day.
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The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla.The character has been adapted for television, film and video games. The series began with a daily newspaper strip on February 17, 1936, followed by a color Sunday strip ...
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Leon Lee Falk created two of the most successful and longest-running action-adventure strips in the history of comic art: Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. Falk was born in St. Louis in 1911. He was a graduate of the University of Illinois. He spent four years writing copy and directing radio shows for an advertising agency in St. […]
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The Story. The Phantom is a long-running American adventure comic strip, first published by Mandrake the Magician creator Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla. The character has been adapted for television, film and video games.
Lee Falk (/ f ɔː k /), born Leon Harrison Gross (/ ɡ r oʊ s /; April 28, 1911 - March 13, 1999), was an American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the comic strips Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom.At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day. Falk also wrote short stories, and he ...
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