L 'Uomo Mascherato 1937.
A Phantom swept over Italy in 1937. The summer saw L'Uomo Mascherato (The Masked Man) smash into crime. That Fantasma is....
L 'Uomo Mascherato (The Masked Man) is, of course, naturally endowed with psycho-physical properties at the limit of superhuman. in addition to excel in all physical characteristics such as resistance to the speed and accuracy in evidence in all psychological characteristics, such as intelligence, logic and intuition, and all moral qualities such as honesty, loyalty and courage, stoic, and can also have extreme concentration and self-control, and is capable of withstanding shock, pain, injuries and wounds which would be fatal to other mortals,and he resists all this unblinking. In that sense, the Masked Man does not belong to the category of superheroes, with no special supernatural forces, but expresses his heroism by Charisma due to his ability to deal with the difficulties and thus defeat the enemies and adversaries.
The Shadow Walker is equipped with two Colt 45, which of course uses the same time and without missing a shot. He also has two rings with two functions, which mark the good and bad characters, that indelible stamp as a warning to the other characters in the stories. One that leads to the middle finger of the left hand, is a design resembling a crimson cross offers slight pressure on the arm or hand of the positive signs that visitors to the area, a kind of laissez-brand with your approval and that the person who is under his protection. The other is the stylized figure of a skull, which bears on the middle finger of the hand of the favorite punch, the right, which gives it a shame scar on the face of the enemy that strikes typically with a direct or an uppercut to the jaw or cheekbone.
The Masked Man has a real pair of helpers: a wolf named Devil (Diablo), a horse called Hero (Hero). L 'Uomo Mascherato has a special charisma to tame animals and control almost all species, whether wild derivatogli possible by the fact that he was born and lived in contact with nature in the jungle equipped Tree house up to 12 years. In his stories, in fact, received aid from a variety of animals such as elephants, lions, dolphins, monkeys and others, and has successfully managed shows how dangerous tigers, Sharks, snakes,
crocodiles and others can be.
L 'Uomo Mascherato has a small island, Eden, where he taught the most disparate and incompatible animal species to live in peace with each other and with humans. In jungle history, as The Ghost, The Walking Dead, or even The Shadow, but also as the Man Who Cannot Die, in the simplicity and ingenuity of the indigenous inhabitants of the forest, He is apparently in circulation for generations. In fact, this is due to a dynasty of Masked Men who inherit the same role in turn. When inheritance of old age or killing, action is required and is replaced by a new "L' Uomo Mascherato" (usually a son or a cognate), and they must pronounce the formula coined by Prime Masked Man Original, or the "Oath of the Skull": "I dedicate my life to the destruction of all forms of piracy, greed and cruelty. My children and their children will follow in my footsteps". Frequently the strips have had adventures set in the past, focusing on the ancestors of the Masked Men by a Roman numeral in indication of the genealogy. As a result the strips have found themselves along the timeline of historical periods between about 1500 and the near future, with the example, in some European publications, He (or She) appeared as children of the future dressed as executioners.
L 'Uomo Mascherato is a bitter enemy to the pirate history in general and especially in the dark circle of Singh, notorious pirates, and apparently Asians. For pirates, in fact, comes directly from its origin and the reasons for it seems that in the navigator of the sixteenth century ship, which will then be the first Masked Man was hit, robbed and abused by the pirates on board, and thrown off the coast of Bangalia, He then vowed the perpetrators of this struggle and crime and his personal war to future generations. "Sometimes the Shadow Walker leaves his jungle and drives like an ordinary person." If it works, He is wearing a fedora, sunglasses and a trench coat, it seems that is Mr. Walker standard attire. Traditionally the Walker name is explained by a footnote on the page The Ghost Who (which means ghost walks accompanied - often translated as the Shadow of walking, English riding means feet), although some versions of the story of the man in disguise, that Walker would propose be wearing the hero the name of the first man.
The First Original L' Uomo Mascherato arrives in 1536 or so, as the sole survivor of a pirate boarding by Singh, on the shores of Bengalia. This is the twenty-year old Christopher Walker, who made a home in the jungle, and knows the Bandar pygmies and He makes his dwelling in a cave shaped like a skull, which then becomes the abode of all his progeny of Masked Men. All Shadow Walker's were equipped with firearms and a uniform that represents a demon and that masks the face that is indigenous to fight crime anonymously, and keep these all in a large dressing room with equipment of all previous L' Uomo Mascherato's.
In the bowels of the cave of the skull, after each adventure, a report is written on large tomes like a memorial, or record, to be left to posterity, so books like that are kept in a large hall shelved inside the cave. They train a successor to replace them when the L' Uomo Mascherato's by length, reaches 50 years of age or because in service being injured or killed. So the heir from time to time thus takes up service to the age of 25 following in the footsteps of the antecedent Masked Man, burying him when the time comes in a hall in the underground cavern of the skull, which houses all the tombs of the dynasty. And so the legend of the Shadow Walker continues and has been handed down over the centuries, L' Uomo Mascherato can continue to pursue justice with continuity through the ages to the present day (originally it was the twentieth centuries, but now the twenty-first century), and beyond. One can postulate that there have been 20 Masked Men in the role of the L' Uomo Mascherato over the course of 500 years.
The armed wing paramilitary of the Masked Man is the Jungle Patrol (Jungle Patrol). The patrol was founded by L 'Uomo Mascherato XVI with the help of a former pirate Barbarossa and the Spirit said that he is the commander; what happened was, that one was killed by treachery, within the L 'Uomo Mascherato XIV Patrol, and this was devised as a resulting command to make it anonymous and unknown. Orders are now received by the Patrol COmmander, and since then mysteriously in a vault of his home, that is secretly reached from The Masked Man, to withdraw it or leave it dispatches information and orders, through a secret passage accessible via and well not far from the city.
Over the course of more than seventy years of stories, the legend of the Masked Man has grown and been enriched by becoming one of the raison d'etre of the series of Masked Men and contain mysterious and bizarre coincidences of fate that suggest the existence of inevitability. The myth of the L 'Uomo Mascherato highlights the immortal character compared to many costumed heroes who personified the fight against crime at different times, and helped to keep the appeal to date. A lot of focus on basic elements, plots and themes of the series on the persistence of the legend of the Masked Man, and many stories contain mysterious and strange coincidences of fate, which suggest the existence of an element of inevitability in the legend of the mind that more than a normal person could do in costume, but a redestined fate of sorts.
The Phantom (aka The Masked Man [L 'Uomo Mascherato]) began as a daily strip February 17, 1936. It was written by Lee Falk and initially even pencils and / or sketches were his. The first artist was Ray Moore was masked. At the time, Lee Falk was already the creator of the successful daily strip Mandrake the Magician. Ray Moore was previously assistant to the designer of Mandrake Phil Davis. A version of the Sunday strip masked Man was added May 28, 1939. During the war, Falk became a member of the Office of War Information (Information Office of war). It is rumored that during this period the Masked Man strip was at least partially written by Alfred Bester, but this is still pretty discussed by those who say that Bester wrote instead Mandrake. Ray Moore also participated actively in the war and during that time he left the strip to his assistant Wilson McCoy. Moore returned after the war and worked occasionally at the strip until 1949, when he left completely in the hands of McCoy. Under the management of McCoy the strip was at its height, appearing in thousands of newspapers around the world. McCoy suddenly disappeared in 1961.
Carmine Infantino and Bill Lignante (who would later draw the Masked Man stories directly for comic magazines) replaced him before finding a successor in Sy Barry. During the early years of Barry, he and Falk modernized the strip, and laid the foundations for what is considered the modern look of Man in disguise. Barry would continue working on the strip for over 30 years before retiring in 1994. George Olesen, for a long time assistant Barry, remained on the strip as the author of pencils. The new inker for the daily strip was Keith Williams. The Sunday strip for some time was inked by Eric Doescher until Fred Fredericks, the designer of Mandrake the Magician, became the regular inker in 1995.Lee Falk went on to co-write the Phantom (and Mandrake) until his death, March 13, 1999. After that, King Features Syndicate began to cooperate with European comic publisher Egmont, publisher of the Swedish magazine Fantomen that contains the original stories in comics since 1963. Fantomen writers Tony De Paul and Claes Reimerthi alternated as writers of the daily strip after the death of Falk. Today De Paul is the regular writer. Some of the stories have been adapted from stories originally published in comic magazines Fantomen. In 2000, Olesen and Fredericks retired from the Sunday strip which was taken over by Graham Nolan. A few years later, Olesen and Williams left the daily strip. A new designer was found in Paul Ryan, who was then already a veteran of Man masked after working on the comic stories Fantomen for a couple of years. The first daily strip Ryan appeared in early 2005.
The Phantom (L 'Uomo Mascherato aka The Masked Man) is a fictional character created adventures of the American writer Lee Falk. The series, which chronicles their adventure began in black and white strips in the American New York Journal 17 February 1936, followed by a colored band on Sunday in May, 1939. The masked man is well known that the first "superhero in tights," the first comic book avenger wear traditional dress to be what is the domain of superheroes, of which it is to be a prototype.
L 'Uomo Mascherato had three adventures in 1937 and these were those adventures:
1 - L'Uomo Mascherato Maggio 1937
2 - Nel Regno dei Singh Agosto 1937
3 - La Banda Aerea Novembre 1937
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