About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Australian comic strips, Australian comics artists, Australian comics titles, Australian comics writers, Eddie Campbell, The Phantom, Comics in Australia, Platinum Grit, Shaun Tan, Mandrake the Magician, Ledger Award, Ashley Wood, Tom Taylor, Ben Templesmith, Christopher Sequeira, May Gibbs, Bacchus, Judy Horacek, George Hall, Nicola Scott, Peter Ledger, Bernard Curry, John Brosnan, Jason Chatfield, Stan Cross, Cyclone!, Lee Sheppard, Len Lawson, Ginger Meggs, Stewart McKenny, Fil Barlow, David G. Williams, Madeleine Rosca, Dillon Naylor, Matt Coyle, The Example, Terry Denton, Bernard Caleo, Nicki Greenberg, Edward J Grug III, Beyond the Black Stump, Alice Pung, Queenie Chan, Julie Ditrich, Gestalt Publishing, Frontiers of Science, Mandy Ord, Jules Faber, Craig Phillips, Ian C. Thomas, Torkan, Hairbutt the Hippo, Dean Rankine, Captain Goodvibes, Snake Tales, Stab comics, Zooniverse, The Potts, Swamp, Bluey and Curley, Insanity Streak, Peta Hewitt. Excerpt: The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the fictional African country Bengalla. The Phantom is the 21 in a line of crimefighters that originated in 1536, when the father of British sailor Christopher Walker was killed during a pirate attack. Swearing an oath to fight evil on the skull of his father's murderer, Christopher started the legacy of the Phantom that would be passed from father to son, leaving people to give the mysterious figure nicknames such as "The Ghost Who Walks," The Man Who Cannot Die and Guardian of the Eastern Dark, believing him to be immortal. Unlike many fictional costumed heroes, the Phantom does not have supernatural powers of any kind, bu...
