 Today on the show we're taking a look at the phantom number one from DC Comics so stay tuned. Hey guys welcome back to Comic-Ed and TV we're all geek culture collides if you're new to the channel don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos. All right guys so as I said today we're taking a look at DC Comics the phantom number one. This is from March of 1989. I've gotten a lot of requests or not really a lot but quite a few requests to do other phantom stories other than the king phantom that Dynamite publishes. So I had this in my collection along with a few others so I thought I'd take a look at it today. Of course this is by DC Comics new format first issue Lee Fawkes classic adventure hero returns by Mark Verhiden and Luke Mcdonnell. As you can see this is in pretty rough shape I got this from a neighbor a few years back. I bought I bought a bunch of comics for like a quarter piece or something like that can't go wrong there and really I mainly just got it because I like the phantom and since it's in such poor condition I didn't have to worry about handling it and keeping it in mint condition you know. So anyway this was when DC Comics obtained the license to publish phantom comics. So as you can see here he's sitting on his skull throne got a couple skulls there got some mist or whatever. One thing that's different about the phantom in comics than say Batman or Superman or Spider-Man any of those other heroes phantom comics focus more so on the villains uh yeah you get you do you do get inner dialogue for the hero and thought bubbles and all this other stuff but he isn't really the main focus the story each story revolves around the villain so I'm going to go ahead and raise the camera up and add a downward angle lay this flat and show you guys the comic bear with me this is a good spot here so as I said it is in pretty rough shape page you know here we go we start off with we move this a little bit we start off with the story of the phantom how he came into being uh how he swore this uh oath on a the skull of the pirate that killed his father and then we come in on an old man telling the story of the phantom and how pirates should always watch out for him and how his how he and his tribe were saved by the phantom as well as how the phantom gave this old man the good mark uh the good mark all who see it will know you are my friend when you're older it may prove useful uh the good mark for those of you who don't know is a sign of protection the phantom protects this person and then we join uh gun runners smuggling some guns uh they're supplying guns to both sides in a civil war and they come upon a boat a ship for the jungle patrol and just they slaughter the three men on the ship and so this grabs the attention of the phantom kit walker this is the 21st phantom as with most phantom stories it is usually the 21st phantom so phantom goes after him and eventually comes across the uh the head of state for the african nation and now the phantom usually doesn't get involved in politics and all this other stuff his job is keeping the peace um and making sure the tribes of bengala uh aren't harmed but since the jungle patrol and since the the phantom is the supreme commander of the jungle patrol uh it he kind of forced his hand and had to confront the uh head of state which caused him to get out of the arms business and stop uh stopped buying the weapons from the bad guy you know uh the phantom comes aboard the ship and of course it's a trap he's surrounded nowhere to go and that's where this issue leaves off um it wasn't a bad issue it really followed the same uh the same style as the old newspaper strips it's dc really did the phantom right you know dynamite doesn't does it okay too but the old newspaper strips ever since the phantom has been in print form it's always followed more the villains or the pirates than the phantom himself something else that dc got right was whenever they showed kit walker himself uh it was always in disguise in the old newspaper strips it never showed kit walker's face uh he was usually wearing a trench coat or something with a uh derby hat like that uh with the shadow covering his eyes let's see if i can find a page that shows him in his disguise okay so maybe it's not in this issue i believe it might it's more likely an issue too then which i will be reviewing here uh shortly it'll probably be on the next episode um but yeah i really enjoyed it dc did the phantom right uh that's not saying that there's anything bad with how dynamite does the phantom uh to each their own but this is how the phantom was meant to be uh the artwork is very reminiscent of the old newspaper strips um i know in the star wars tales of the jedi i said i didn't really care for the simplistic style of the artwork however in this it makes sense because that's how it was done in the newspaper strips uh like here that's exactly you could see that this would be a good comic as either black or white or color uh it doesn't matter there's a lot of comics that can't really say that uh they rely on the color uh but with the phantom and this style of artwork it doesn't rely on color at all you can really see that they they could turn turn this into part of the newspaper strip i'm not sure if they got it from the newspaper strip or if it was i think this was an original story by dc a lot of publishers they'll take the old newspaper stories and print them together in a comic book format but i think this was original to dc uh and it's it's very nice you can see the style they were going for was that more than likely they weren't sure if they wanted to publish it in black and white or color so they they started with a black and white format and just added color on top of it which makes it all that better if you ask me um yeah uh very nice i like it i kind of wish dynamite would publish phantom stories like this where it revolves more around the villains the story revolves more around the villains than the phantom himself uh in the king stories uh the stories focus more on the phantom and his allies or her allies in this case uh and that's not really how the phantom was intended to be with that being said i'm gonna go ahead and sign off i'll be back with issue number two which continues the story it actually finishes the story actually uh it's a two-part story so if you're new to the channel and you like what you saw don't forget to hit that subscribe button and the little notification bell so you don't miss out on future videos i'm shannon for come again tv the only place on youtube where all geek culture collides i'll see you next time my friends take care