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Issue: The Phantom #21
Publication Date: March 1967
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Issues: #21 of 11 Issues (15 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagKing Features
Brand: King ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: King Features Syndicate Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/03/1967
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Harris
Disclose Notes: Index incomplete missing 6 pages.
On-sale date based on other King Features' titles with historically concurrent release dates.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover and interior
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In9
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (background)
Inker(s): ? (background)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): The Phantom; Hero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagKing Reading Library #R-06 published January 1973
as The Phantom [Illustration on Cover, Front]modified; in part
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #181 published January 1988
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The King Years #[nn] published September 2012
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The King Years #[nn] published September 2012
as The Phantom #21 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagColecção Chico Zumba #10 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagLe Fantôme #3 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes: from The Phantom daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962-11-20 [third panel only, with different background (deleting Hero's ear) and art extended at the bottom]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Credits from Alberto Becattini.
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The Treasure of Bengali Bay

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Feature(s): Phantom
Character(s): Phantom [Kit Walker]; Diana Palmer; Guran; Doctor Axel; Roy Drake; Cutlass [Zeeks]; Hero
First Line: Fifty Fathoms down inthe murky depths of Bengali Bay lies an ancient hulk, the rotting remains of a once-powerful pirate ship.
Synopsis: Friends of the Phantom discover pirate gold at the same time Zeeks and his friends do. Using superstition Zeeks pretends to be Cutlass the pirate to scare the native salvagers off. The Phantom prevents this, and Zeeks recruits the witchdoctors' help.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The King Years #[nn] published September 2012
as The Treasure of Bengali Bay [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Phan-Mail
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Steve Koen, Jesse Brumbalow Jr., Octavio Rivera Jr., Jim McCrumg, Sandy Rose Williams, and Julie Black.
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The Terror Tiger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Phantom [Kit Walker]; Bengo; Guran; Colonel Huntington; Shaza (Sultan of Calicutt); Prince Taran; Calica
First Line: Trapped in the fearsome maze of India, the Phantom had but one weapon to battle the deadly tiger who was tracking him...
Synopsis: Prince Taran trains a tiger to kill the Phantom. Hearing about it before the prince can act the Phantom heads to India to prevent the man-eater from being released in his jungle. Through trickery the prince gets the Phantom into the Mountain Maze with the killer tiger.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagKing Reading Library #R-06 published January 1973
as The Terror Tiger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The King Years #[nn] published September 2012
as The Terror Tiger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: 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. We previously credited Bill Harris.
Shaza knows the Phantom is not immortal.
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Midnight with Mandrake

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime, fantasy
Character(s): Mandrake; Lothar
First Line: In many ways, a great city is like a jungle, where the strong lie in wiat to prey on the weak and helpless.
Synopsis: Mandrake and Lothar chase a young purse snatcher into a subway tunnel.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Art credits from Alberto Becattini, added March 2007. Previously credited to André LeBlanc. Possible Poole script per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 27, No. 3, March 2016.

Same title and page count as story in Flash Gordon (King, 1966 Series) #1 (September 1966). This is not a reprint.

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