Gallery Comments by Enter The Phantom

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Thanks a lot for your comment back in 2024 Peter!

I love it too. It's mesmerising!

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Yes it sure is. It's what drew me to owning this one!

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Agreed! Very simple - yes powerful!

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Søren M

Wow! GRAIL acquisition! Amazing piece of history here

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Awesome cover! Tommy Hughes was a master! Great era of action sequences on the covers in these years!

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R M

Beautiful cover! Tommy Hughes was a master!

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Neil Hansen

Your work on the 3x Phantom 2040 covers was exceptional!
I'm more a 'Falkist' Phantom collector myself but these 2040 covers really stood out and brought a whole new wave of collectors to The Phantom.  

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Neil Hansen

Woweeeee 
Incredible piece of artwork. It's intense and the level of details extraordinary!

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Interesting you should say. It's been noted Lignante highly admired Alex Raymond's drawing style: 

"Lignante learned to draw by copying the “Flash Gordon” and “Prince Valiant” newspaper comics. From early on, he knew he wanted to be a cartoonist, though his parents pressed him to choose a more stable adult profession" 

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Yeah it's got some charm to it that's for sure! 

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R M

Great significant item. If Im not mistaken, this was the cover from the Lee Falk dedicated issue of the Friends of the Phantom newsletter.

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What a wonderful Rolf Gohs example! 
The black background cover really stands out for me, and the floating skull in the back outstanding. 

Well done on acquiring this beauty!

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Thanks a lot for your comment Marcus! 
I agree and also enjoy the bondage girl type covers! 

Prior to your comment, I didn't have the published cover picture attached. And honestly, the published cover again captures such a powerful image in my opinion. Wonderful! 

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Gorgeous cover. 
Did you know there is 2x versions to this cover art, this one and 1x painted version also? 

I was a bit puzzled recently as I purchased the painted cover, to which I enquired with Dean Ormston and he explianed that he originally drew the cover art in B&W and then was requested by Wolf Comics to prioduce a painted copy.  

Perhaps one day we can out them side by side for a comparison. 

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That's right! 
thanks a lot for your comment!

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Thanks a lot Marcus! You're right!

When I have had visitors this is a common piece which has had artists and photographers stop to study it further. 
One of my grail pieces for sure!

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Jeff Singh

Absolutely gorgeous piece! Well done!

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Rick W

Absolutely gorgeous piece!

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Robert Hughes

Looks fantastic! Well done acquiring such a nice poiece!

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Thanks a lot!

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Thanks again for your comment Marcus! 

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Thanks a lot! I noticed that too and wished we saw more of them! 

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Thanks a lot! 
His Phantom artwork you can see a little more reference to qhich comics he wokred on here: https://www.phantomwiki.org/index.php/Don_Newton

Interestingly, another collector friend of mine owns a letter from Lee Falk, creator of the Phantom admiring Don Newtons style of his character. 
The letter can be seen here if you're a member of the group on facebook called Phantom collector: https://www.facebook.com/groups/phancollector/posts/859373350801961

Thanks again for your comments!

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Thanks a lot for the comment. 
you're right, it's got such a great 'vintage' like appeal. 
Keith Chatto had such a unique way of drawing that he's stand out one of my favorite Australian artists of all time. 

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Thanks a lot! 
Yeah this piece stands out as one of my favourites in the whole collection! So powerful!

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Thnaks a lot for your comment again and agreed! 
This TESSA original is actually a bit of a copycat piece, as the original strip art by Sy Barry is exactly the same. I do own the sy barry original also so will upload it in the next few days and might make it an additional photo here for comparison!

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Thanks a lot! 
Yeah are resemble that 1st superhero / crimefighter type very well!

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Thanks a lot for the comment!
Agreed on this! Such a dark, powerful piece. This artist TESSA was so good at capturingthe darker poses. 

I particularly like the ali baba face on the front cover on this one. Such great detail!

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Agreed! The details in the art here are just fantastic. Thanks for the comment!
If I can get a nice photo, I will upload another page I purchased also. 

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Thanks a lot for your comment. I agree. I still love looking at this on my wall!

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Thank you. 
I saw this originally in a friends collection and for years followed up in the hopes he would one day sell it. Finally that time come and I didn't hesitate to pull the trigger on owning it. It's one of the best examples of Rolf Gohs I have ever seen (in my opinion)

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Very nice collection of the three pages you have here Dan.

In answer to your question on the writer, I checked and seems to be written by an author named Gary Poole. Some more details here. 

https://www.phantomwiki.org/index.php/The_Story_of_Hero

 

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Thnaks a lot for your comment Marcus. 
I agree. This piece really stood out to me with the darkness and modern feel to it.

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What a great piece! Love how Mccoy captures this daily in story form

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Nice item. And have really enjoyed Frew's portfolio sets also. 

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Thank you JC S!

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Wow, Phantastic piece!

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Trent C.

Nice piece! Uncertain of the episode sorry! 

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Phantastic!

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Phantastic!