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Lee Falk (/ f ɔː k /), born Leon Harrison Gross (/ ɡ r oʊ s /; April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999), was an American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the comic strips Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day.
It is based on Lee Falk's comic strip The Phantom, first syndicated to newspapers in 1936 by King Features Syndicate. The serial also features Jeanne Bates as the Phantom's girlfriend Diana Palmer , and Ace the Wonder Dog as the Phantom's trusted German shepherd Devil (who is a wolf in the original comic strip).
During his first story, "The Singh Brotherhood", before disclosing that Wells was the Phantom, Falk changed the setting to a jungle and made the Phantom an apparently immortal, mythic figure. [11] Thinking that there were already too many characters called "the Phantom" (including The Phantom Detective and The Phantom of the Opera ), Falk ...
Lee Falk's syndicated newspaper comic strip The Phantom premiered on February 17, 1936, [2] with the story "The Singh Brotherhood", [3] written by Falk and illustrated first by himself, for two weeks, followed by Ray Moore, who was an assistant to artist Phil Davis on Falk's Mandrake the Magician strip.
Falk's story "The Belt", [15] where the Phantom fights the killer of his father, was also a major influence on the story, but the name of the murderer is changed from Rama to Quill, and the 20th Phantom, played by Patrick McGoohan, is portrayed as a much older man in the film than in the comic strip.
Lee Falk writes the story of The Phantom as well as the story for Mandrake the Magician; girls at King Features Syndicate do the coloring for the Sunday comics." [ 8 ] As for help in drawing the strip, Today’s Cartoon (publication) said, Don Moore, a cartoonist and a survivor of WWII after being wounded, treated and discharged from hospital ...
Falk went on to remember both Doherty and their late costar Kim Walker, who died of a brain tumor in 2001. The trio played a trio of popular high school teenagers all named Heather in the movie.
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