The 2005 Diary was spiral bound again, so I can scan some pages for display.
I have chosen a cross section of pages showing Phantom cover art from all over the globe and in different eras, so you can see what he looks like to many other artists and cultures.
Yugoslavia in 1962 and Italy in 1967
India in 2001
Argentina (Tit Bits) and Turkey 1993
Germany in 1962 and USA in 2004
France in 1950 and Argentina in 1948
UK in 1967 and Denmark in 1964
Published in 1993, this diary also has lots of snippets of Phantom strips, images and covers. Unlike the other diary I've posted which was spiral bound and easy to lay flat, this diary was bound using conventional hard cover binding, and I don't wish to damage the bind by scanning the inside.
Wrapper from one of the Dynamic Phantom trading card sets released in the early nineties in Australia. If you saved the Phantom tokens and sent them in with a payment, you could get a Phantom trading card album.
Published in Australia, the annual diary is a work of art, and usually has many pages of Phantom comics, strips and images. I never use them; they're too nicely made to be written in. :)
This is the cover and some of the pages inside.
First penned by Lee Falk in 1934, Mandrake the Magician is a beloved comic crime-fighter. With a wave of his enchanting hand, crooks and gangsters are hypnotized into submission. Believing the illusion that their weapons are deadly snakes and red-hot irons, criminals cast aside their defenses and are easily apprehended by the cunning magician and his allies. With his dapper mustache and top hat, Mandrake the Magician is an unforgettable classic comic hero.
