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Issue: The Phantom #22
Publication Date: May 1967
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Issues: #22 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: 03/07/1967
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date given in the letters column of the previous issue.
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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:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Phantom
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The King Years #[nn] published September 2012
as The Phantom #22 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #71 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover by Sy Barry was especially drawn for this series. Credits from Alberto Becattini, added March 2007.
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The Secret of Magic Mountain [Part One]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, drama, jungle, superhero
Character(s): Phantom [Kit Walker]; Guran; Tuluck (The Wambesi Witch Doctor); Phantom (2nd) (flashback); Kiyanga (Wambesi Witch Doctor)(flashback); Gyano Tribe (flashback)
First Line: See! See! Kiyanga is shaking the mountain in his wrath!
Synopsis: Blaming the awakening of the volcano on a 300 year dead witch doctor Kiyanga, Tuluck seeks to eliminate the Phantom. "Reading" the Legend of Kiyanga he tells the Wambesi how he defeated and killed the evil Phantom and that the current Phantom is an imposter. He incites them to repeatedly attack and kill the Phantom. Turning to the chronicles to identify the drive behind the attacks, he discovers the 2nd Phantom had to help Kiyanga save his people from the Gyano tribe slavers. The were friends, not the enemies Tuluck makes them out to be.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The King Years #[nn] published September 2012
as The Secret of Magic Mountain [Part One] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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.
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This Is the Phantom!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle, superhero
Character(s): The Phantom (15th); The Phantom (16th); Diana Palmer
Synopsis: A brief history of the Phantom, and his role in the world. Tells how the current Phantom #16 (Kit Walker) trained with the dreaded pygmy poison people, and was then sent to America for formal education, it was there he met Diana Palmer. He returned to the jungle when his father died.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text story with small illustration retelling the origin of The Phantom.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Fred Seegmuller, Bud Cavadeni, Jeffrey Stevenson, Andre Dupuis, Greg Myers, and Mark Dillman.
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The Secret of Magic Mountain (Part Two) Village in the Volcano

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle, superhero
Character(s): Phantom [Kit Walker]; Guran; Tuluck; Kiyanga (flashback)
First Line: Preparing to dynamite the volcano on Magic Mountain, the Phantom approaches with Guran only to find an awesome sight...
Synopsis: Arriving with the dynamite to blow the volcano safely Guran and the Phantom discover Tuluck stirring up mischief, with everyone supposedly hearing the dead Kiyanga telling them they must kill the false Phantom. Temporarily ignoring this, the Phantom and Guran enter the mountain to prevent the eruption. Setting the charges the Phantom gets caught inside the mountain when it blows. He was successful and quieted the mountain. Tuluck uses the quieting and forces his tribe to follow him into the mountain to cement his control, only to find the Phantom waiting for him disguised as Kiyanga.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom: The Complete Series: The King Years #[nn] published September 2012
as The Secret of Magic Mountain (Part Two) Village in the Volcano [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.
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Arsonist and Old Rags

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Mandrake; Lothar
Synopsis: Mandrake and Lothar catch an arsonist.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLyn Gordon #2/1968 published March 1968
as Pyromanen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Art credits from Alberto Becattini, added March 2007. Previously credited to André LeBlanc. Poole script per biblio info from Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 27, No.3, March 2016.
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Date of filing: December, 20, 1966. Owner: King Features Syndicate, Inc., a division of The Hearst Corporation. Circulation statement shows an average circulation of the preceding 12 months to be 221,141 copies.

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