The city was too clean to be true — but under its surface polish seethed crime and corruption! The slaying of a Senatorial witness thrusts a deadly mystery into the Phantom’s hands!
Entire essays have been written and countless arguments have ignited over just how much various comic and movie heroes actually owe to the Pulp creations before them. With the Phantom Detective, however, the comparisons between Ned Pines’ master sleuth and another, much more popular masked detective, Batman, are hard to deny. Depending on the creator interviewed, credit for various aspects of Batman’s history have been given to his pulp ancestors. Although not in the same manner, both Richard Curtis Van Loan and Bruce Wayne were orphans and both men born to wealth. Also both characters underwent vigorous training in various skills, although it appears that The Phantom Detective was more self-educated than Batman, Even with that, both were skilled fighters, masters of disguise and escape, and of course each held a claim to being the world’s greatest detective. The Phantom Detective also maintained a crime laboratory much like Batman did with his Batcave. Above all else, however, the clearest connection between them rests in the fact that The Phantom’s friend, publisher Frank Havens, had a red flashing light installed atop his newspaper building to use as a signal to summon his masked friend. This, obviously, predates Batman’s own Bat Signal, but even more glaring is the fact that two men responsible for editing Batman at his earliest stages of development had previously been editors on a particular Pulp magazine The Phantom Detective!
Crimson Harvest was originally published in the Summer 1951 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: Crime Study
Chapter 2: Clues To Murder
Chapter 3: Mountain Road
Chapter 4: Dead Man’s Family
Chapter 5: Men Of Murder
Chapter 6: Mysterious Powers
Chapter 7: City Market
Chapter 8: Undercover
Chapter 9: Matter Of Alibis
Chapter 10: Trapped
Chapter 11: Evidence Of Murder
Chapter 12: Proof Of Innocence
Chapter 13: Murder Stock
Chapter 14: Impossible Assignment
Chapter 15: Dangerous Plans
Chapter 16: The Man From Chicago
Chapter 17: Menace Closes In
Chapter 18: End Of A Minor Tyrant
Chapter 19: Fallen Empire
