...And I'll say I used to follow the Phantom some but haven't recently and Figs'll say how he admires the original , King Features Syndicate universe , Phantom but stays away from Rupert Murdoch papers and so does not see him in the medium he was designed for (In the 1930s U.S. , Figs , a lot of people would not buy William Randolph Hearst's newspapers , and I , recall that an imitation " BOYCOTT HEARST " letter stamp was banned from the mails , even I suppose when appropriately used , not trying to substute for a real Uncle Sam one by thePost Office in a case which went all the way up to the Supreme Court , with the stamp side losing , and I'll say that the U.S. issue of Phantom comic books , which all seem to be based on an " alternate " version of The Ghost Who Walks , appears to have stopped , and...........
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...AAAnnd , I decided to actually try re-entering into reading the KFS Phantom - and Mandrake the Magician - strips to-day , this time I'm afraid at the Fan Francisco Chronice/SF Gate's site rather than the MCAppeal (Y'see , I was there to see what TIME it was...and I am on the West Coast , after all !!!!!!!!!)...They're both at fairly decent times to start reading them , the Phantom is at the " the Bad Guy gets a can of whoop ass opened upon him " stage and Mandrake is rooting...A new story officially starts to-day !!!!!!!!!
To a certain extent , mandrake , a a comics hero , strikes me as one of those " eternal comics characters who/m everyone has certianly HEARD of...but nobody much has ever read anything OF , at least in the States .
Did you know that in the Nineties Marvel issued a Mandrake limited series of three issues...and never issued the third one ?????????
Sheesh . No respect . meebe a David Blaine-style makeover - Even a retro-style Doug Henning look ???...would be in order for Narda's Mister ?????
...Tony Depaul , who came from the Scandanavian company, Egmont , which produces THOUSANDS of pages of Phantom comic-book stories which have never seen American print or Web , now writes both of the seperate-storylines Phantom strips , daily and Sunday . Two American funnybook vets , Paul Ryan daily and Terry Beatty Sunday , draw 'em . Terry has come in , really , since I last drifted away although I knew that he had come in . It would appear that the Sunday strip has changed its layout/grid from a three-tier design with a top one with a title panel and two (of course cutoff-able) panels to a " vertical " direction that has no logo panel and appears to be not-cutoffable at all ??
However , some strips offered in what was once the " 1/3 page " grid , THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS for one , do have a " cut off a panel each from one side , the first panel of the sequence , and one 1/2-way through " design .