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