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Title: The Phantom Circle
Post by: paw broon on May 03, 2023, 03:54:35 PM: I finally got round to collecting the pages for a second Phantom Circle story. This is an improved and extended compilation with a cover, 2 stories and an info page. For those who enjoy masked, robed, hooded groups in schools, you'll find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=85238
Title: Re: The Phantom Circle
Post by: The Australian Panther on May 04, 2023, 08:20:25 AM: Quote
For those who enjoy masked, robed, hooded groups in schools, you'll find it here

Paw, do yu have any idea what kind of image that conjures up in 2023? :o
Title: Re: The Phantom Circle
Post by: The Australian Panther on May 04, 2023, 08:25:30 AM: Trying to find, open and download this I get this message.

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Now, let us just see what the problem is here.

Ok, it's just that the page was not found.
Title: Re: The Phantom Circle
Post by: paw broon on May 04, 2023, 09:59:10 AM: Apologies. Problem withe file so I've taken it down. I'll fix it.
Title: Re: The Phantom Circle
Post by: paw broon on May 04, 2023, 01:12:42 PM: Hopefully it's all ok now.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=85239
Title: Re: The Phantom Circle
Post by: SuperScrounge on May 04, 2023, 08:37:57 PM: Quote from: The Australian Panther on May 04, 2023, 08:20:25 AM

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For those who enjoy masked, robed, hooded groups in schools, you'll find it here

Paw, do yu have any idea what kind of image that conjures up in 2023? :o

Yeah, when I read his comment I thought, "Were there any white hooded groups?"

Then I thought maybe someone should make a parody of those groups, perhaps called something like the Knitting Knights of Knockwurst, and they fought a villain called Black Tom?" ;)

These days of course people would ignore the intended parody and pretend to take offense at it.
Title: Re: The Phantom Circle
Post by: crashryan on May 05, 2023, 01:34:58 AM: As you know, I too am a fan of school secret society comics. Thanks for collecting these stories for us. The artwork changes radically between stories. The first uses the somewhat stodgy heavily-crosshatched style I associate with this sort of comic (stodgy, but I like it), while the second takes a much more open approach, as if drawn for color.

The secret society concept must have struck a chord with readers back in the day. There seem to have been lots of them--and you say they date back to the 1930s! Do you know if The Green Feather was the first?
Title: Re: The Phantom Circle
Post by: paw broon on May 05, 2023, 07:06:37 PM: I think so but there were similar characters and groups in the predecessor prose pocket libraries. An interesting wee project