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| Wonderful ! Golden age of Comics ! |
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| I had heard of Phantom Lady before, so it was great to finally read one of her comics. The book begins and ends with a Phantom Lady Comic - In the first one, she stops a syndicate that is rigging boxing matches, and in the second she is fighting communists. When this was published in the 50s, America was in the midst of McCarthyism, so it would have been a good piece of propaganda. The book also includes a two-page prose story that I didn't read; and two other comics that I did. One was a nonfiction piece about John Peter Zenger, a German printer who fought for free speech in America in the 1700s. I'd never heard of him, but was interested enough that I looked him up. The other was a funny piece involving a young man and a witch, with a final scene reminiscent of the Salem Witch trials. There were references to First Nations people that would be politically incorrect today, and I didn't like the story as much. But it's interesting reading it in context of the times. I liked the book as a whole and will read the other issues available, but I liked the Phantom Lady ones the best. |
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| RUTH ROCHE (1917-1983)
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| Publication | December 1954-January 1955 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | Satan's Seal |
| Featuring | Phantom Lady |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] |
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| Comic Story | Ringside Racket (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | While out on a date Sandra Knight (Phantom Lady) and Don Borden come upon two men beating up the middleweight champ Slim McKay. He explains that they wanted him to throw his next fight and he refused. Phantom Lady decides that it is time to shut down this gang of thugs. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Slim McKay; Sandra Knight; Tex Bronko |
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| Comic Story | The Intruders (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: John Peter Zenger |
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| Comic Story | The Silly Sorceress (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | humor story about the Salem witch trials |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pinwheel |
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| Text Story | The Escape (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Cold War At a Boiling Point (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Phantom Lady is told that King Eduardo of Travania is being duped by his Prime Minister Kantroff into declaring war on the Allies so she flys to Travania to make sure that King Eduardo is brought to his senses. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Comrade X; Sandra Knight; "The Whip"; King Eduardo of Travania; Prime Minister Kantroff |
| Notes | This story is an edited version of a 10 page Spitfire Sanders story from Spitfire Comics (Elliott, 1944 series) #132 (August 1944). |
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