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Issue: The Phantom #12
Publication Date: June 1965
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Issues: #12 of 17 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/01/1965
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Publication date and on-sale date from 1965 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Character(s): The Phantom; the Baron of Bengali
First Line: A jungle giant hypnotizes wild animals to do his fighting for him!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as The Phantom #12 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLe Fantôme #20 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Montage cover
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Architecture, Number 3: The Babylonians

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Features of ancient Babylonian building.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Beast of Bengali

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Character(s): The Phantom; Guran; the Baron of Bengali [Best of Bengali] [the Golden One]; Chief Fauno
Synopsis: The giant "baron" uses trained animals and ventriloquism to feign magic and exploit the people of the jungle. The Phantom uses special effects to match the Baron's "magic," then defeats him in hand-to-hand combat.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years #2 published December 2012
as The Beast of Bengali [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 26
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Alberto Becattini (January 2011).

According to a letter from Bill Harris in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 23, No 8, August 2012, he wrote all the Phantom stories at Western/Gold Key. However, years earlier Harris had written in The Comic Reader #32 that new stories (not adapted from the comic strip) were being written by Dick Wood. This is a new story.

At http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-trapani-ghost-on-ghost-who-walks-and.html, script-spotter Martin O'Hearn attributes the script to Dick Wood.
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Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle the Moose
First Line: Are Cheerios your favorite cereal, Bullwinkle?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad, in comic-story form, for Cheerios cereal from General Mills.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Tom Wells, Gary Schwelbach, Bruce Capp, and Hans Hannus, with responses from the editor.
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Safaris into the Unknown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Track Hunter (introduction); Oloo; Dad; Tonga (gorilla)
Synopsis: Track Hunter and his father are shipping animals when a gorilla escapes and runs amok, killing the father. Oloo intervenes with a gem that enables him to control the white apes. Track and Oloo agree that rather than hunting, they will make safaris into the unknown to pursue mysteries.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #7/1972 published January 1972
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Intro Track Hunter, but there was no "Track Hunter" logo on this story.
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Wild Animals of Asia, Number 6: The Moon Bear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about the Himalayan moon bear.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Gaylord Du Bois script credit for The Moon Bear as per page 202, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta, April 2016.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: 3 complete fishing outfits...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad, with order coupon, for fishing equipment from Niresk Discount Sales.

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