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The second awaited volume of Hermes Press consisting of the remaining Nine comic books published by Western Publishing during 1962-66 under the banner Gold key is out now which thus conclude the restoration of the 17 classic Lee Falk's Phantom stories which were redrawn by Bill Lignante and written by Bill Harris and Lignante himself.
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The long awaited publication from Hermes press 'The Phantom:The Complete Sundays:Volume One 1939-1942' has been released.This volume is first in the ambitious series of publication of all Sunday Strips in a magnanimous format by Hermes Press.
The Hermes Press publication has already been publishing Phantom Daily Strips in B/W format but in color this volume is first in its series.
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Friends its the month of February and we have just celebrated the 5th anniversary of Comic World few days back.The indents at my finger tips caused by rigorous and continuous typing for the anniversary post haven't been fully recovered and i am back with another post within a span of 3 days driven by some special cause.
All of you must be well aware of that Phantom's very first strip 'The Singh Brotherhood' appeared in newspapers on 17th Feb. 1936,hence February could be termed as Phantom's month and Comic World would be celebrating this month by posting different-different features/comics relating to Phantom in general.
To start with here is the review of 'The Gold Key years:Volume 1' published by Hermes Press Publication.You must be knowing that Hermes Press is the publication which has recently brought out the 3 volumes of Phantom Daily strips and planning to publish all Gold key,King,Charlton and Sundays too.
The 'Gold Key' was the publishing banner of K.K.Publications of US which published 17 comic books of Phantom based on Lee Falk original strips(except issue no.11,12 and 13) illustrated by Bill Lignate and script by Bill Haris(from issue no.1-10) and Bill Lignate(issue no.11-17) within the period spanning from Nov.1962 to July 1966.
In this series Hermes Press has published the first 8 stories of Gold Key in its 1st Volume followed by a 2nd volume consisting of remaining nine stories out of a total 17 Gold Key stories.
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