Category: Brand Timeline

The first novel based on the Phantom comic strip, The Son of the Phantom, is released in hardcover by Whitman Publishing Company. The book tells the story of The 21st Phantom’s childhood; however, it is not considered Phantom canon.

Columbia Pictures produces The Phantom, a 15-part TV serial based on the newspaper strips. The series stars Tom Tyler and Jeanne Bates.

The debut of the Phantom Sunday newspaper strip was May 28, 1939.

The merch seems to start in Yugoslavia in 1937 or 1938, with the unlicensed printing of Fantom postcards. The card featured a photograph of a man in a homemade Phantom costume.

On February 17, King Features Syndicate launches Lee Falk’s The Phantom as a daily newspaper strip, written by Lee Falk and drawn by Ray Moore.