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| Feature Comics #71 |
The Spider Widow and Phantom Lady, brought together to battle a menace threatening PL's father, US Senator Knight, have also developed a rivalry for the affections of The Raven.
Note: the order is changed this month as the Spider Widow tale comes first in story continuity.
Also, even though most sources list this as a Frank Borth job, it's not signed, as most of his work is, and the art style is a bit...off.
So while Borth probably wrote and penciled the story, he probably didn't ink it.
Now for the Phantom Lady installment...
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| Police Comics #22 |
The art here seems to be a combination of Frank Borth and Phantom Lady creator Arthur Peddy.
Both Spider Widow and Phantom Lady would make one more appearance in their respective series before being canceled.
While Phantom Lady was revived and revised at Fox Publishing, the Spider Widow hasn't appeared in a new story since.
interestingly, when DC revived the Phantom Lady as part of the Freedom Fighters in the 1970s, they brought back this version in yellow and green, not the later, notorious Fox/Ajax blue and red version!
interestingly, when DC revived the Phantom Lady as part of the Freedom Fighters in the 1970s, they brought back this version in yellow and green, not the later, notorious Fox/Ajax blue and red version!
We hope you enjoyed this look at the first version of Phantom Lady!
I feel Eisner all over this, the shrewd salesman, the guy who looked for angles. I love all the cross-title action going on (not to mention the call-out to Blackhawk, another Eisner product). The splash panel of the first story, with the storybook lettering, also feels like a station identification.
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