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In many cases this inventory was just 2-3 years old at the time, but Cole's strategy was to rely on his own cover designs, artwork and color to make it stand out on the newsstands.  And in the case of this particular issue, there was something else — the Fox reprints of Phantom Lady and[...]

When we covered the auction for a copy of All Top Comics #10 (1948) last year, we noted that it contained the strangest Phantom Lady story of the Golden Age.  Many of Phantom Lady's adventures of the Golden Age were pretty typical crime comic (or even true crime) stories, but this tale in All Top Comics #10 is[...]

Soon, Jo-Jo Comics and All-Top Comics were likewise converted to jungle adventures, and Phantom Lady was introduced to the Fox Feature Syndicate line-up.  The character had been created at Eisner & Iger studio and published in Quality Comics' Police Comics from 1941-1943.  Bringing Phantom Lady to Fox Feature Syndicate along with the other rather abrupt[...]

It is perhaps no coincidence that perhaps one of the most infamous comic books in vintage comics history was published at a moment of one of the industry's greatest peril.  The Promise Collection's copy Fox Features Syndicate's Phantom Lady #17 with its notorious Matt Baker cover recently sold for a record $456,000 — a result[...]

Who drew the cover to Phantom Lady #2? One of the first superheroes to debut in the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and published by Quality Comics and then Victor Fox, the character was subsequently published by Ajax-Farrell as well as Charlton.  In more recent times, a new version of the character currently appears[...]

But the series has quite a bit more going for it than that, with the inclusion of typically stand-out Blue Beetle and Phantom Lady stories as well.  And as it happens, the Phantom Lady story in All Top Comics #10 by legendary artist Matt Baker is one of the most unusual stories featuring the character[...]

Issue for issue, Fox Features Syndicate's 1947-1949 run of the title Phantom Lady is one of the most sought-after titles in American vintage comics history.  It's 12 issues of gorgeously delineated covers and art from Matt Baker, Jack Kamen, and others.  Countless articles have been written about Baker and his talents — his sure-handed composition[...]

Issue for issue, Fox Features Syndicate's 1947-1949 run of the title Phantom Lady is one of the most sought after titles in American vintage comics history.  It's 12 issues of gorgeously delineated covers and art from Matt Baker, Jack Kamen, and others.  Countless articles have been written about Baker and his talents — his sure-handed[...]

Original good girl art can be found on Jungle Comics, Archie Comics, Wings, Blue Beetle, Torchy, Planet Comics, and of course, Phantom Lady In fact, one of the most famous pieces of good girl art can be found on Phantom Lady #17, drawn by the legendary Matt Baker — one of the few African American artists[...]

The Ray, Phantom Lady, Black Condor and Doll Man were all staples of the publishing company along with titles like Blackhawks, Plastic Man, Alias the Spider and G.I Combat Prior to Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Quality Charactres existed on two different Earth… Earth Quality and of the Nazi run Earth-X That was home to the[...]

It starts on Earth-X with The Ray, Black Condor, Phantom Lady, Dollman, and Red Tornado trying to help a group of refugees get away from the Reichmen In the battle, the Red Tornado is severely damaged and he gives the Ray his cortex/brain to destroy so the information won't fall into the Reichmen's hands[...]

The rest of the team were the Human Bomb (an actual walking bomb), Doll Man and Doll Lady (think of Ant-Man and the Wasp), Phantom Lady (intangible and opens portal), Black Condor (think the Falcon), the Ray (living light being), Miss America (star-spangled Supergirl), Red Bee (kind of like Iron Man), and Firebrand (Human Torch[...]

Based on Earth X where the Nazi's won World War II, the Freedom Fighters are The Ray, Black Condor, Phantom Lady, Red Tornado and one member I can't tell They go up against Fascist versions of Green Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl The voices sound like Stephen Amell and Grant Gustin And the Red Tornado[...]

This gave him the reputation of being one of the industry's best Good Girl Artists, a title that still sticks today! His most famous character would have to be Phantom Lady While he didn't come up with the character (the Igor Studio–specifically Arthur Peddy created her) he gave her the look we all know and[...]

Baker redesigned the Phantom Lady into the character we see above when it moved to Fox Publications in 1947 He was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2009. Ormes began convinced an editor at the Pittsburgh Courier to let her draw a comic strip called Dixie To Harlem and went on to create[...]

Oops. Looks like Phantom Lady #4 was missed out from the Diamond solicitations for November Which is why, as orders are automatically added to retailer accounts to match their orders for issue 3, it rockets to the top of the advance reorder charts As ever, subsequent prints and variant covers are often overrepresented on these charts[...]

DC has brought  a few Quality Comics characters and even titles (National Comics is more of a nod to the classic Quality Comics series of the same name) into the New DCU already — such as Blackhawks and The Ray, and I'm pleased to see them bringing two others in Phantom Lady and Doll Man[...]