posted February 20, 2003 05:36 AM            

Police Comics #1 8/41
"The Coming of the Phantom Lady" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #2 9/41
"The Kidnapped Ambassador" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #3 10/41
"Framed for Kidnapping" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #4 11/41
"The Dirigible of Doom" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #5 12/41
"Ortega the Saboteur" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #6 1/42
"The Autogiro Spies" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #7 2/42
"Murder at the Anglican Embassy" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #8 3/42
"Chaos in Cuba" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #9 4/42
"The Japanese Assassination Plot" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #10 7/42
"The Civilian Defense Scandal" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #11 9/42
"The Spy Ring Murder" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #12 10/42
"The Tank Factory Sabotage" (5 pages + cover)

Police Comics #13 11/42
"The Phony Phantom Lady" (5 pages + cover)

Police Comics #14 12/42
"The West Point Incident" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #15 1/43
"The School for Spies" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #16 2/43
"The Mystery of the Opera House Robberies" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #17 3/43
"Mystery of the Black Cat" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #18 4/43
"Golden Egg" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #19 5/43
"Murder on the High Seas" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #20 6/43
"Enter: The Raven" (6 pages + cover)

Feature Comics #69 7/43
(untitled) (5 pages + cover)
(Phantom Lady crossover in Spider Widow story.)

Police Comics #21 8/43
"Phantom Lady Vs. the Spider Widow" (6 pages + cover)

Feature Comics #70 8/43
(untitled) (5 pages + cover)
(Phantom Lady crossover in Spider Widow story.)

Police Comics #22 9/43
"Submarine Sabotage" (6 pages + cover)

Feature Comics #71 9/43
"Peace -- It's Wonderful" (5 pages + cover)
(Phantom Lady crossover in Spider Widow story.)

Police Comics #23 10/43
"The Four Maniacs" (6 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #13 8/47 (20 pages + cover)
"The Beauty and the Brain" (12 pages)
"Knights of the Crooked Cross" (8 pages)

PHANTOM LADY ARCHIVES VOL. 2 (202/216 pages)
PHANTOM LADY (1947 series) #14-19 and ALL TOP COMICS #8-13

Phantom Lady #14 10/47 (29 pages + cover)
"Scoundrels and Scandals" (9 pages)
"Condemned Venus" (10 pages)
"A Shroud for the Bride" (10 pages)

All Top Comics #8 11/47
"Satan's Cargo" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #15 12/47 (29 pages + cover)
"An Army of Walking Dead" (12 pages)
"The World's Meanest Crook" (10 pages)
"The Red Rain" (7 pages)

All Top Comics #9 1/48
"The Killer Clown" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #16 2/48 (30 pages + cover)
"The Avenging Skulls" (10 pages)
"The Monster in the Pool" (11 pages)
"Clara Peete, the Beautiful Beast" (9 pages)

All Top Comics #10 3/48
"The Television Spies" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #17 4/48 (20 pages + cover)
"The Soda Mint Killer" (10 pages)
"The Stinging Whip" (10 pages)

All Top Comics #11 5/48
"The Case of the Swindling Eye" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #18 6/48 (20 pages + cover)
"Ghosts, Galleons, and Gold" (10 pages)
"The Fat Connoisseur" (10 pages)

All Top Comics #12 7/48
"The Subway Slayer" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #19 8/48 (20 pages + cover)
"Wine, Women, and Sudden Death" (10 pages)
"Case of the Murderous Model" (10 pages)

All Top Comics #13 9/48
"The Fire Fiend" (7 pages + cover)

PHANTOM LADY ARCHIVES VOL. 3 (197/208 pages)
PHANTOM LADY (1947 series) #20-23; PHANTOM LADY (1954 series) #5 (#1) and 2-4; and ALL TOP COMICS #14-17

Phantom Lady #20 10/48 (20 pages + cover)
"Bullets for Ballots" (10 pages)
"Ace of Spades" (10 pages)

All Top Comics #14 11/48
"The Copy-Cat Killers" (9 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #21 12/48 (29 pages + cover)
"The Jack-in-the-Box Murders" (10 pages)
"Case of the Criminal Chessmen" (10 pages)
"The True Story of Arthur Gooch" (9 pages)

All Top Comics #15 1/49
"The Substitute Cinderella" (10 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #22 2/49 (18 pages + cover)
"The Case of the Robbing Robot" (8 pages)
"Olympic Saboteurs" (10 pages)

All Top Comics #16 3/49
"The Man Who Lost His Stuff" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #23 4/49 (23 pages + cover)
"The Indian Tiger Mystery" (5 pages)
"Adventure of the Jade Maiden" (10 pages)
"Saturnalia of Sin" (8 pages)

All Top Comics #17 5/49
"The Mystery of the Monkey Cult" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #5 (#1) 12/54-1/55 (14 pages + cover)
"Ringside Racket" (7 pages)
"Cold War at a Boiling Point" (7 pages)

Phantom Lady #2 2-3/55 (20 pages + cover)
"Shell Game" (7 pages)
"There's Only One Miss America" (6 pages)
"An Eye for an Eye-Witness" (7 pages)

Phantom Lady #3 4/55 (14 pages + cover)
"Television Spies" (7 pages)
"Yankee Doodle Luck" (7 pages)

posted February 20, 2003 06:09 AM            

PHANTOM LADY ARCHIVES VOL. 1 (203/216 pages)
POLICE COMICS #1-23, FEATURE COMICS #69-71, and PHANTOM LADY (1947 series) #13 and 14

Police Comics #1 8/41
"The Coming of the Phantom Lady" (6 pages + cover)

Police Comics #2 9/41
"The Kidnapped Ambassador" (6 pages)

Police Comics #3 10/41
"Framed for Kidnapping" (6 pages)

Police Comics #4 11/41
"The Dirigible of Doom" (6 pages)

Police Comics #5 12/41
"Ortega the Saboteur" (6 pages)

Police Comics #6 1/42
"The Autogiro Spies" (6 pages)

Police Comics #7 2/42
"Murder at the Anglican Embassy" (6 pages)

Police Comics #8 3/42
"Chaos in Cuba" (6 pages)

Police Comics #9 4/42
"The Japanese Assassination Plot" (6 pages)

Police Comics #10 7/42
"The Civilian Defense Scandal" (6 pages)

Police Comics #11 9/42
"The Spy Ring Murder" (6 pages)

Police Comics #12 10/42
"The Tank Factory Sabotage" (5 pages)

Police Comics #13 11/42
"The Phony Phantom Lady" (5 pages)

Police Comics #14 12/42
"The West Point Incident" (6 pages)

Police Comics #15 1/43
"The School for Spies" (6 pages)

Police Comics #16 2/43
"The Mystery of the Opera House Robberies" (6 pages)

Police Comics #17 3/43
"Mystery of the Black Cat" (6 pages)

Police Comics #18 4/43
"Golden Egg" (6 pages)

Police Comics #19 5/43
"Murder on the High Seas" (6 pages)

Police Comics #20 6/43
"Enter: The Raven" (6 pages)

Feature Comics #69 7/43
(untitled) (5 pages)
(Phantom Lady crossover in Spider Widow story.)

Police Comics #21 8/43
"Phantom Lady Vs. the Spider Widow" (6 pages)

Feature Comics #70 8/43
(untitled) (5 pages)
(Phantom Lady crossover in Spider Widow story.)

Police Comics #22 9/43
"Submarine Sabotage" (6 pages)

Feature Comics #71 9/43
"Peace -- It's Wonderful" (5 pages)
(Phantom Lady crossover in Spider Widow story.)

Police Comics #23 10/43
"The Four Maniacs" (6 pages)

Phantom Lady #13 8/47 (20 pages + cover)
"The Beauty and the Brain" (12 pages)
"Knights of the Crooked Cross" (8 pages)

Phantom Lady #14 10/47 (29 pages + cover)
"Scoundrels and Scandals" (9 pages)
"Condemned Venus" (10 pages)
"A Shroud for the Bride" (10 pages)

PHANTOM LADY ARCHIVES VOL. 2 (202/216 pages)
PHANTOM LADY (1947 series) #15-19 and ALL TOP COMICS #8-13

All Top Comics #8 11/47
"Satan's Cargo" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #15 12/47 (29 pages + cover)
"An Army of Walking Dead" (12 pages)
"The World's Meanest Crook" (10 pages)
"The Red Rain" (7 pages)

All Top Comics #9 1/48
"The Killer Clown" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #16 2/48 (30 pages + cover)
"The Avenging Skulls" (10 pages)
"The Monster in the Pool" (11 pages)
"Clara Peete, the Beautiful Beast" (9 pages)

All Top Comics #10 3/48
"The Television Spies" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #17 4/48 (30 pages + cover)
"The Soda Mint Killer" (10 pages)
"The Stinging Whip" (10 pages)
"Evelyn Ellis, Queen of Gangsters" (10 pages)

All Top Comics #11 5/48
"The Case of the Swindling Eye" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #18 6/48 (30 pages + cover)
"Ghosts, Galleons, and Gold" (10 pages)
"The Fat Connoisseur" (10 pages)
"Irene Schroeder, Keystone Hellcat" (10 pages)

All Top Comics #12 7/48
"The Subway Slayer" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #19 8/48 (30 pages + cover)
"Wine, Women, and Sudden Death" (10 pages)
"Case of the Murderous Model" (10 pages)
"Peter Treadway, Cleveland's Brutal Killer" (9 pages)
"The Crime Goddess" (1 page)

All Top Comics #13 9/48
"The Fire Fiend" (7 pages + cover)

PHANTOM LADY ARCHIVES VOL. 3 (223/240 pages)
PHANTOM LADY (1947 series) #20-23; PHANTOM LADY (1954 series) #5 (#1) and 2-4; and ALL TOP COMICS #14-17

Phantom Lady #20 10/48 (30 pages + cover)
"Bullets for Ballots" (10 pages)
"Ace of Spades" (10 pages)
"Willy Vogel, the Gray Phantom" (10 pages)

All Top Comics #14 11/48
"The Copy-Cat Killers" (9 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #21 12/48 (29 pages + cover)
"The Jack-in-the-Box Murders" (10 pages)
"Case of the Criminal Chessmen" (10 pages)
"The True Story of Arthur Gooch" (9 pages)

All Top Comics #15 1/49
"The Substitute Cinderella" (10 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #22 2/49 (29 pages + cover)
"The Case of the Robbing Robot" (8 pages)
"Olympic Saboteurs" (10 pages)
"The Crime of Roger Caseman" (5 pages)
"Joe Noon -- Killer" (6 pages)

All Top Comics #16 3/49
"The Man Who Lost His Stuff" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #23 4/49 (28 pages + cover)
"The Indian Tiger Mystery" (5 pages)
"Adventure of the Jade Maiden" (10 pages)
"Saturnalia of Sin" (8 pages)
"The True Story of Walt Stevens" (5 pages)

All Top Comics #17 5/49
"The Mystery of the Monkey Cult" (7 pages + cover)

Phantom Lady #5 (#1) 12/54-1/55 (14 pages + cover)
"Ringside Racket" (7 pages)
"Cold War at a Boiling Point" (7 pages)

Phantom Lady #2 2-3/55 (20 pages + cover)
"Shell Game" (7 pages)
"There's Only One Miss America" (6 pages)
"An Eye for an Eye-Witness" (7 pages)

Phantom Lady #3 4/55 (14 pages + cover)
"Television Spies" (7 pages)
"Yankee Doodle Luck" (7 pages)

posted February 20, 2003 01:23 PM               

Ugh..........

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posted February 20, 2003 04:32 PM            

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Originally posted by James Friel:
So this includes the Fox stuff too?

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It's supposed to be the same character (although a very different treatment of that character). If DC now owns the character, wouldn't DC own all the published stories featuring that character, regardless of publisher? (Someone who actually knows something about copyright law will probably correct me on this.)

posted February 20, 2003 05:25 PM               

WONDER BOY #17 / May'55 -- "The Man The Kremlin Applauded"

WONDER BOY #18 / Jul'55 -- "Success Is No Accident"

These were listed as just before and after the Ajax PHANTOM LADY #4.

I've lost the e-mail he sent me, but Bill Black was trying to explain how the Quality & Fox PHANTOM LADYs diverged in publishing history & ownership. (I wish I still had that e-mail, I'd run it here.) Bill Black's Paragon Publications decided to revive PHANTOM LADY in 1972, and did 10 stories with her over the following years, until DC ordered him to stop! Beginning with BILL BLACK'S FUN COMICS #4 / 1983 (officially the 1st AC Comic), she became NIGHTVEIL and has made far more appearances than either the Quality version of PG has at DC or the newer character who debuted in ACTION COMICS WEEKLY and has been seen since in STARMAN.

According to the most recent info I have, NIGHTVEIL has appeared in NIGHTVEIL # 1-7, SENTINELS OF JUSTICE # 1-6, ARMAGEDDON FACTOR # 1-3, NIGHTVEIL SPECIAL # 1, VENTURE # 3, FEMFORCE SPECIAL # 1, FEMFORCE # 1-80 (current), NIGHTVEIL’S CAULDRON OF HORROR # 1-3, FEMFORCE: HOUSE OF HORROR, FEMFORCE: NIGHT OF THE DEMON, UNTOLD ORIGIN OF FEMFORCE, BLUE BULLETEEER # 1, AC ANNUAL # 1, GOOD GIRL ART QUARTERTLY # 1-18 (current)

posted February 20, 2003 06:57 PM            

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Originally posted by profh0011:
WONDER BOY #17 / May'55 -- "The Man The Kremlin Applauded"

WONDER BOY #18 / Jul'55 -- "Success Is No Accident"

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The GCD doesn't have information about the mid '50s Wonder Boy series. I found it in Overstreet, but I wasn't sure if those were Phantom Lady stories or Wonder Boy stories with guest appearances by Phantom Lady. Do you have more information about those stories, such as page counts?

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I'm SURE this was one of those "postal regulation" deals where a publisher changed an existing title rather than start a new one to eliminate permit hassles... What Quality title "disappeared" after 12 issues so that PHANTOM LADY #13 could "debut"?

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posted February 20, 2003 06:57 PM               

Question: Were PG's appearances in the Spider Widow series in FEATURE COMICS # 69-71 / Jul-Sep'43 a 5 or 6-part story? I know things like that were pretty rare in those days, but not unheard of (Sub-Mariner & The Human Torch certainly set a precedent).

What was the deal with Ajax's debut issue? Did some title run 4 issues and get renamed-- and then re-numbered the following issue, or was Ajax's PG #5 (#1) really a #1 but they didn't like putting a #1 on the cover?

According to the AC list, "Television Spies" in the Ajax PG #3 / Apr'55 was a re-do of the story from ALL-TOP #10 / Mar'48 (even the same title) with new art.

Ajax published 10 PG stories (not counting the "True Crime" ones PG narrated). There was, apparently, an unpublished 11th story, which Bill Black has the original art to and plans to publish at some point (if he hasn't already)!

And while I'm on it, here's the Paragon PG stories:

PHANTOM LADY #1 / 1972 -- "Dweller In The Darkness"

CAPTAIN PARAGON #1 / 1972 -- "Dweller In The Darkness" (same story or 2-parter, I wonder?)

FEM FANTASTIQUE #2 / 1975 -- "Carnage On Campus" (part of "Capricorn Chronicles"-- whatever that is)

BIZARRE THRILS #1 / 1977 -- "Battle Beyond Reality"

FEM FANTASTIQUE #3 / 1979 -- "Red Dominion" (Capricorn Chronicles)
"Phantom Lady Battles Nasiz!"

FOX PHANTOM LADY INDEX / 1979 -- "Wild Eyes" (Bill Black reworking a non-PG story with art by Matt Baker)

FEMZINE #1 / 1981 -- "The All Girl Squad" (FEMFORCE prototype)

Bill Black's FUN COMICS #1 / 1981 -- "Love Death"

Bill Black's FUN COMICS #3 / 1982 -- "Coming Of Ero"

Bill Black's FUN COMICS #4 / 1983 -- "Nightfall" (1st AC Comic / 1st NIGHTVEIL)

Artist MATT BAKER appears to have illustrated all of the Fox PG stories from 1947-48, with the exception of the one in ALL-TOP #15, which was done by "ALTON". And no PG set should be without the '94 Verotik reprint cover done by ADAM HUGHES!!! (If those stories ever got reprinted properly-- complete, in chronological sequence, and with a PROPER coloring job) I'd want to insist that Hughes piece be included, either as a pin-up or as the cover for one of the Archive volumes! It's just too good to pass up.

posted February 20, 2003 06:58 PM            

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Originally posted by CMCINTYRE3600:
Is this the same Phatom Lady who was Ted Knight's cousin? Wasn't Police Comics non-DC (Quality, right?) I guess I'm not that up on GA history, but how was Ted Knight's cousin (Sandra Knight, right?) created by a different company from Ted himself?
Chris

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posted February 20, 2003 07:04 PM               

"Do you have more information about those stories, such as page counts?"

posted February 20, 2003 07:08 PM               

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posted February 20, 2003 07:30 PM            

quote:

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Originally posted by profh0011:
Question: Were PG's appearances in the Spider Widow series in FEATURE COMICS # 69-71 / Jul-Sep'43 a 5 or 6-part story? I know things like that were pretty rare in those days, but not unheard of (Sub-Mariner & The Human Torch certainly set a precedent).

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My information for those stories comes from the GCD, which doesn't say if they're separate stories or a single multi-part story.

quote:

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What was the deal with Ajax's debut issue? Did some title run 4 issues and get renamed-- and then re-numbered the following issue, or was Ajax's PG #5 (#1) really a #1 but they didn't like putting a #1 on the cover?

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Probably something like that.

quote:

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Ajax published 10 PG stories (not counting the "True Crime" ones PG narrated).

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posted February 20, 2003 11:33 PM               

Now just looking at the first 3 on this list, it sure seems like it was a continued story bouncing between 2 different books, doesn't it?

posted February 20, 2003 11:41 PM               

Also, put me down for The Golden Age Ray Archives once they figure out how to successfully reprint Lou Fine's work!

posted February 21, 2003 03:12 AM            

quote:

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Originally posted by profh0011:
As for the number of Ajax PL stories, I'm guessing that Bill Black is just enough of a PL & Golden Age fanatic to have that kind of info correct.

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posted February 21, 2003 09:43 AM               

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Originally posted by vze2:

Just in case it wasn't clear from the above responses, Sandra Knight wasn't Ted Knight's cousin in the Golden Age. As far as I know, the connection wasn't made until the late 1980s. In any case, I don't think that the connection was ever really exploited until James Robinson's Starman.

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posted February 21, 2003 11:25 AM            

So did PL have the yellow costume in Police Comics and the blue/red get-up in the late 40s? I have a tpb reprint where she's wearing that latter costume...