The Phantom and Mandrake - Where Lee Falk got his ideas from, in his own words

By Gent Bear -

And why one of the passwords of Norwegian underground in the second World War was "The Phantom"

Here's an account from Jerry Robinson's (co-creator of "The Joker") 1974 book "The Comics". Special thanks to Unca Scrooge for providing this very valuable article. Lee Falk, in his own words, explains where he got his ideas from for his comics - The Phantom and Mandrake, and the significance of The Phantom comic during the Second Word War.

As Lee Falk says in the below article, The Phantom had a wide range of readers across the world numbering 100,000,000 readers a day - one hundred million readers a day! That's 10,00,00,000 - ten crore readers a day! I was one of the large number of readers in India, during the Lee Falk & Sy Barry era. we used to get The Phantom and Mandrake in Indrajal Comics which were essentially Lee Falk's newspaper strips in a comic book format, in in full colours! Later, Diamond Comics published these as a series of digests. Indrajal Comics was published in several Indian languages. Apart from such comic books, The Phantom was also featured in magazines and newspapers across India, in many Indian languages.

Okay, now let's go to the main thing, Lee Falk's column on where he got the ideas, in his own words :


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  1. Gent Bear7 May 2020 at 01:05

    Thanks to JPuzzleWhiz for additional input of Jerry Robinson as co-creator of The Joker.
    Sorry, Whiz, but had to remove your comment to keep your email i.d. private. You should use a name instead of email i.d for your Blogger profile!

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    1. JPuzzleWhiz8 May 2020 at 09:07

      Any way of finding/posting the rest of that article, or is that all of it?

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    2. Gent Bear9 May 2020 at 01:00

      I believe that's the full article, Whiz. Unca $crooge, who shared this, said in his post about Hamlin on Moovians blog that this article by Lee Falk was right next to the Hamlin's article. You can see that Hamlin's article on the Moovians blog, filed under the category : Nostalgia.

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  2. Anonymous26 April 2022 at 11:18

    You alright Gent, haven't heard anything from you in 11 days.

    Rimose

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