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Phantom (Phantom Detective) by Jason Crager (Mystery Sketch Spring 2024!)

Artist: Jason Crager (All)

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Phantom (Phantom Detective) by Jason Crager (Mystery Sketch Spring 2024!) Comic Art

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Thrilling Comics 53

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Title:	Phantom (Phantom Detective) by Jason Crager (Mystery Sketch Spring 2024!)
Artist:	Jason Crager (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Mystery Sketch
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	262
Likes on CAF:	5 6
Comments:	5
Added to Site:	6/30/2024
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Description

The Phantom Detective, also called the Phantom, is a pulp hero who first appeared in 1933 in his eponymous magazine and subsequently in comics. He was in Thrilling Comics 53-70 from 1946 to 1949 and America's Best Comics 26 in 1948.

Like many pulp heroes that inspired Batman, the Phantom was a wealthy figure who donned a costume to conceal his identity to fight crime.

DC may have borrowed the idea for the Bat-Signal from the red searchlight calling forth the Phantom. Two early Batman editors, Jack Schiff and Mort Weisinger, got their start editing The Phantom Detective under editor-in-chief Leo Margulies, according to Wikipedia.

The online article "Top 10: Pulp Magazine Heroes" by Jerry Whitworth has an excellent description of the character: https://comicartcommunity.com/comicart_news/top10-pulp-magazine-heroes/

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John C
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 6/30/2024

Beauty. I seen a few mystery sketches by him. He really delivers. Congrats.

Peter Roe
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 6/30/2024

John C wrote:

Beauty. I seen a few mystery sketches by him. He really delivers. Congrats.

Agree. I lucked out in getting Jason Crager for a mystery sketch last year of a Golden Age Sandman.

Rick W
Member Since 2017

1 - Posted on 6/30/2024

Agree with John, very cool!

Ruben DaCollector
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 6/30/2024

I love this for no other reason than it's so much fun to see pulp characters being kept alive in modern times by contemporary artists.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 6/30/2024

I don't know, I tend to think Bob Kane created everything and the pulp heroes took from him! I mean this is a classic pose and cape work that you'd find in Batman comics. The thick white outline is great in giving Phantom an aura of mystery and magic!

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