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Issue: The Phantom #5
Publication Date: November 1963
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Issues: #5 of 17 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/01/1963
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Harris
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10014-311. On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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The Phantom Battles the Swamp Rats!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle, superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Peoples of Africa, Number 7: The Fantis

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Fanti fisherman; Fanti musicians
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Swamp Rats

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle, superhero
Character(s): The Phantom; Colonel Weeks; Sergeant Cole; Patrolman Jones; Otter; swamp rats
Synopsis: Otter leads his "swamp rats" on raids against nearby villages and caravans, always escaping by means of secret trails through the Great Swamp. When they capture two Jungle Patrol men as hostages, the Phantom infiltrates their camp, frees the patrolmen, and with their help captures the bandits.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #10/1990 published May 1990
as Sumprottene [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #1 published December 2011
as The Swamp Rats [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Job Number: 5-638
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: I know you don't have a fan page in your Phantom comic book, but I'm suggesting you have one called Phan-Mail!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: First letters column. Letters from Brent Richards, George Pacinda, Fred Romanek, Joe Nickerson, and Bruce Williams.
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Rogue Elephant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Victor King; Francis Queen; Jack Hawkins
Synopsis: The three friends narrowly escape death bringing down a rogue elephant in a bamboo stand. They discover that the animal had a bullet lodged in the nerve center of one tusk, causing it years of constant agony.
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Pages: 4
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The Phantom's Boyhood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle, superhero
Character(s): The Phantom [the twentieth Phantom]; Kit Walker [the "current," 21st Phantom as a boy]; Kit's mother; Guran
Synopsis: The twentieth Phantom teaches his son Kit in the skills and the lore of his future career as the Phantom. Eventually the boy is sent to his mother's family for schooling in America, with Guran as companion. The two friends don't know what to make of the industrialized world. Kit shocks his aunt and uncle by arriving in a loincloth, having swapped clothes with Guran, who's been feeling self-conscious.
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In Content Item: FlagFantomet #23/1989 published January 1989
as Det unge Fantomet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: 1st of a series showing the boyhood of the Phantom. This one shows his birth. Continues in 6 and 7.
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Fish, Number 22: Bonefish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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The Phantom Pin-Up No. 5

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): The Phantom; swamp rats
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Same image as front cover, minus trade dress, etc.

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