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Not like the comic

posted 19 years ago by ae7641
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The Phantom used to run in daily newspapers as Spiderman now does. If anyone can recall, The Phantom of the newspaper comic and gold key comic book was a little closer to Batman than the movie version of Phantom. The Phantom would sometimes leave Africa and face New York thugs. I remember after The Phantom in the daily comics handles a thug and the thug cusses, The Phantom says "Remind me to wash your mouth out with soap later."

The Phantom would tap people with a ring leaving a permanent mark on them that they were a friend of The Phantom or knock them in the jaw and leave a skull mark branding them as an enemy of The Phantom.

I read that at one point the Phantom had two pistols and calmly finished off thugs. But I belive that was changed into less of a pulp story.

[–] gonzo-81 19 years ago

Well, the general city-visit wasn't new york, but... that african town wich I can't remember the name of... where president Lumbaga (or whatever he's called) is.

Can't remember seing him using the good-mark in this movie, but the bad-mark was obviusly there...

The Phantom always wore two pistols, and a knife in his boot.

[–] Gh0st_Face 18 years ago

Not like the comic at all... In the swedish comics he had a blue suit instead of the purple one in the movie.

If I´m not mistaken the reson why he becam blue in the nordic comics was a printing error on the first magazines and they decided to keep the blue, but there are some comics with the purple suit(rare).

I think the phantom looks the best in the blue suit, but thats maybe because I grew up seeing him in it...

[–] krantzbucks 18 years ago

Actually, the suit was supposed to be gray. Apparently there was a coloring error as you mentioned, which turned the suit PURPLE. This was in the American version which I grew up with.It seems that the suit was colored differently depending on nationalities. Apparently colorists took more liberties with coloring in the thirties. This is a good link for some Phantom information, including the color controversy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom