A Lua de Mel do Fantasma

Title:              A Lua de Mel do Fantasma
Date:             1978-05
Download:     http://www.mediafire.com/?r15sfev15qu   36,6MB
Language:       Portugues do Brazil

Scanned by:    Name or nick not available

About the story #1: Story #1 starts when the wedding is over (they skip nearly 2 months).
Script:             Lee Falk
Art:                Seymour (Sy) Barry
Title:               The Wedding of the Phantom
Kind:              Daily Strips
Story #:          136 *
Start date:       1977-12-26 [Original start: 1977-10-31]
End date:        1978-02-04
Span:             14 weeks


About the story #2:
Script:            Lee Falk
Art:               Seymour (Sy) Barry
Title:              Guardian of the Eastern Dark
Kind:             Daily Strips
Story #:         134 *
Start date:      1977-04-04
End date:       1977-08-13 [They skip the last strip: 1977-08-13]
Span:             19 weeks

Note: The Phantom color is red like in France.

This comics is provided by Emile with all above mentioned details. All credits go to her & Unknown scanner".

P.S.:  I liked its slightly different size of panels and coloring from Indrajal Comics.

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O Casamento Do Fantasma

It's a Brazilian version (1978) which contains the following 3 stories (script by  Stan Lee & art by Seymour (Sy) Barry):

1.The Proposal
2.The Tyrant of Tarakimo
3.The Wedding of the Phantom


Stories informations:

• The Proposal

Story number:133
Title:The Proposal
Start date:1977-02-21
End date:1977-03-31
Span:6 weeks

Remarks: The last strip is missing (1977-04-01).

• The Tyrant of Tarakimo

Story number:135
Title:The Tyrant of Tarakimo
Start date:1977-08-15
End date:1977-10-29
Span:11 weeks

• The Wedding of the Phantom

Story number:136
Title:The Wedding of the Phantom
Start date:1977-10-31
End date:1978-02-04
Span:14 weeks

Remarks: The story stops on the 1977-12-24. It will be resumed in the next printed issue.

Note: The Phantom color is red like in France.
Download:   Especial-QA-O_Casamento_do_Fantasma.cbr   32,3 Mb - 100 scans

This comics is provided by Emile with all above mentioned details. All credits go to her & Unknown scanner".

P.S.:  I liked its slightly different size of panels and colouring from Indrajal Comics.

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Modern Silver: The New Frontier, Part 3

It's been awhile since I talked about the first two books in this series, so you may want to refresh your memory.

The third book opens with four men about to crash in a plane. They are, of course, the Challengers of the Unknown. Meanwhile, Hal Jordan has just accepted his job at Ferris Aircraft. The Suicide Squad battles a giant Pterodactyl, which kills Rick (the leader) before it dies as well. At his funeral, one of the women remarks that she never saw anything like that before in her life, but a WWII vet mentions seeing something like it on an island in the South Pacific. This is the first foreshadowing of the finale of the story.

Hal Jordan discovers that life at Ferris is nowhere near as exciting as he thought it would be, as he is subjected to a seemingly endless series of what seem to be useless tests. Then, just as he's about to quit Carol reveals:

They're planning a trip to Mars, with Hal as one of the crew. At the same time, Batman prods John Jones to obtain a book that was entered into the evidence locker when the two of them broke up a cult a year and a half earlier. When Jones does, he discovers that it tells a story of a Viking Prince who was cast adrift by his crew and landed on a mysterious island, where giant creatures (dinosaurs) lived. He barely managed to escape. At the end of the book is a description of a terrible force which dwarfs the planets of the solar system. Jones is shocked to realize that the force is already here.

Comments: The story is starting to take shape; we see how Cooke has taken the dinosaurs and monsters of the Silver Age and explained that they all had some common origin.

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Frew #1191 The Island of Death

Writer	Tony de Paul
Artist:	Cesar Spadari

Year:1998

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It's scanned and edited by Micho & link provided by Rocklud . All thanks & credits go to both friends.

Note: It was first printed as Fantomen # 23/1997 & in India it was printed by Egmont Imagination India Ltd as #6  in  Dec 2000.

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Around the Comicsphere

Comic historian Mike Madrid covers the history of female superheroes in a terrific interview at Collector's Weekly.

Batwoman was well-intentioned but Batman spent so much time telling her how incompetent she was and how fighting crime was not a woman’s job that they never developed much of a romance. She was portrayed as an inferior character that couldn’t be trusted. Batman trusted Robin, a 13-year-old boy, more than this grown woman.

Indeed, one of the main themes of Detective #249, where Robin teams up with Batwoman, is that the Boy Wonder is a much better sleuth than she.

Speaking of the fair sex, Jared at Blog Into Mystery has a post on one of the two stories in the Silver Age featuring a revolt of the girl members of the Legion of Superheroes. I touched briefly on the earlier story with the same plot here.

H at the Comic Treadmill covers four of the Silver Age Hawkman tryout issues in Brave & Bold. Excellent reading, and I heartily agree with this point:

Their three-issue tryout over, the Hawks vanished for a year of Earth-Prime time when they returned for a second three-issue stint in Brave & Bold. The first two issues had a mini-arc going with the goal of establishing a reason the Hawks would stay on Earth. The problem with it that it was the foundation of the series and Fox failed to sell it. The idea that Thanagarian police could learn from Earth methods required a smooth talking pitch by Fox and he failed to deliver. What did primitive Earth have to offer advanced Thanagarians? Apparently as shown in B&B 42’s, The Menace of the Dragonfly Raiders, Earth turned ropes into lariats, which turned out to be more effective than Stun Guns in subduing crooks mounted on dragon flies.

Indeed, assuming the Absorbascon worked as advertised, wouldn't Hawkman have learned all he needed to know about Earthling police methods without even bothering to set foot on the planet? And as H hints, he really wasn't studying police methods so much as he was studying ancient weapons.

Cartoon Snap reviews a collection of Felix the Cat comic book stories from the 1950s. As a second-grader in the early 1960s, I loved the Felix the Cat cartoons, although I recognize now that they were pretty crudely made. But the comics were very interesting and completely wild.

Bill Jourdain covers the latest release from DC's Golden Age, featuring the earliest adventures of Superboy. I am thrilled to hear that DC is finally reprinting significant material from that series, one of my favorites as you can probably guess from the way I've been covering it lately.

The Magic Whistle has a post on a rather bizarre 1960s book of one-panel gags called "My Son, the Daughter". Definitely not something that would have met with the approval of the CCA!

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Sexist Stan

From Avengers #34. Sure enough, in the next issue:

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D2-029 The Far Side of the Moon (27-Jan-1958 to 15-Mar-1958); D2-030 Behind the Flying Saucers (17-Mar-1958 to 3-May-1958) & D2-031 Movie-Making on Pluto (5-May-1958 to 21-Jun-1958)

Today 64th Independence Day of India.

Today enjoy 3 Flash Gordon Daily Strips.

Art: Dan Barry

Summary: Finally getting a chance to leave Mongo as the planet’s orbit takes it near Earth (see D2028 The Time Pendulum), Flash, Zarkov and Dale accept an invitation to take part in an Earth expedition to explore the hidden side of the moon.

Wasting no time in joining the expedition, the trio soon touch down on the lunar surface, but shortly thereafter Dale sees something moving in the darkness and decides to follow a trail that ends in an improbable lunar lake...

   

Summary: Finishing his report about the moon entity (see D2029 The Far Side of the Moon), Flash is transferred to the giant ‘Project SS’, a science satellite orbiting Earth where all nations’ data about flying saucers are being pooled and fed to a giant electronic brain in an effort to determine their origin.

As dignitaries from all countries assemble for the grand ceremony marking the disclosure of the data, a cloaked space vessel in the vicinity sends out a saboteur to infiltrate the gathering and blow the station to pieces before the truth is revealed...

 

Summary: Joining Zarkov at the New York Spaceport, Flash is invited to join a scientific expedition to Pluto, on condition that the film company who has financed the entire trip is allowed to accompany the crew and shoot a film on the frozen planet.

Touching down on Pluto with the film crew and stars in tow, Flash and his team struggle to get the upper hand, but everybody’s attention is momentarily turned when strange creatures start emerging from the frozen drifts...

 

(Source of summary: www.ipcomics.net)

These are from Emile's e-collection. All credits go to her & "Allen Lane" who scanned and first shared at net.

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