A gold wine-taster and an ancient silver snuff-box marked with an eagle’s claw put the Phantom Detective on the trail of the crime combine dedicated to the looting of a fabulous fortune! Van Loan probes the career of a strange and mysterious woman!
The Phantom Detective may actually be responsible for the direction a now famous comic strip character took in his own development. When first debuted by creator Lee Falk in 1936, the crimefighter known as The Phantom was actually Jimmy Wells, a millionaire playboy fighting crime in New York City. With these similarities, along with the character’s name being so close to that of The Phantom Detective, some believe that Falk may actually have taken inspiration from the pulp character. It may also have led Falk, according to sources, to make a decision that appeared to be sudden. Within the strip itself, the character took a hard turn from city bound masked man to being the now legendary jungle oriented ‘Ghost Who Walks’ that millions of fans recognize.
The Phantom Detective transcended pulp magazines and made his way into comic books as that media gained more and more prominence. Published originally in his own Pulp magazine by Thrilling Publications, the character publisher Ned Pines ushered in as the lead in the second Hero Pulp also had a life as a four-color hero. The Phantom Detective debuted in Thrilling Comics, a title published by Pines under his company’s comic line, usually referred to as Nedor Comics. It is somewhat of a mystery to some fans why The Phantom Detective simply didn’t have his own comic title, based on how well the Pulp magazine appeared to be doing.
The Angel of Death was originally published in the May 1947 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Eagle’s Claw
Chapter 2: Back Copies
Chapter 3: The Phantom
Chapter 4: Murder in the Mansion
Chapter 5: Bronx Laboratory
Chapter 6: Friends Meet
Chapter 7: Headquarters
Chapter 8: Mad Music
Chapter 9: Development
Chapter 10: Stars Blot Out
Chapter 11: Sailor’s Knot
Chapter 12: Gray Car
Chapter 13: Arrivals
Chapter 14: Taxi
Chapter 15: Room 300
Chapter 16: The Hunt Widens
Chapter 17: Off Key
Chapter 18: On the Terrace
Chapter 19: Out of the Past
Chapter 20: Zero Hour
Chapter 21: The Phantom Writes Finis
