Delayed Items for the Week of October 29, 2010
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For Your Consideration: The Phantom: The Complete Dailies Volume 1
by Robert Greenberger
By the mid-1930s, comic strips had become one of the highlights of the morning and (yes) afternoon newspapers. Competition was fierce to carry the most popular strips and by then, the adventure strip was a firmly established category thanks to the impact of Tarzan, Dick Tracy, Buck Rogers and others. Among them was Mandrake the Magician by playwright turned scripter Lee Falk. His success led him to conceive of something new and for comic strips, something unheard of. After King Features rejected his self-drawn strip about King Arthur, borrowing from the pulps and going one step further, he created The Phantom in 1936, the first masked and costumed adventure hero.