{"id":32363,"date":"2023-03-23T04:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T08:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32363"},"modified":"2023-03-23T04:04:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T08:04:31","slug":"the-phantom-the-man-who-cannot-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32363","title":{"rendered":"THE PHANTOM – The Man Who Cannot Die!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bottleneck Gallery posted The Phantom print above as well as another (with variants of both) by Henrik Sahlstrom<\/a>.\u00a0 Seeing these posters took me back to my childhood.\u00a0 For a brief time I was a fan of The Phantom<\/em>.\u00a0 He appeared in a comic strip in my local newspaper (Terre Haute Tribune-Star).<\/p>\n

The Phantom<\/em> was created by Lee Falk.\u00a0 The first Phantom<\/em> newspaper strip appeared on February 17, 1936.\u00a0 The Phantom wore the purple costume you see in the art by Sahlstrom. In the series, set in the fictional country<\/em> of Bangalla, Africa, Christopher Walker was the first Phantom who took on the hero identity when his father was killed by pirates.\u00a0 Walker passed the identity down to his son and so it went with each new generation.\u00a0 The Phantom became known as “The Ghost Who Walks”<\/em> and “The Man Who Cannot Die”.<\/em>\u00a0 Although he has no super powers, the Phantom is smart and strong.\u00a0 He lives in a cave that looks like a skull with his pet wolf, Devil.<\/p>\n

Over the years, The Phantom<\/em> has been adapted from the newspaper strips to comic books, movie serials, animated series, a live-action series and a feature film!\u00a0 At it’s peak The Phantom<\/em> newspaper strip reportedly had an audience of over 100 million readers daily.\u00a0 Even more amazing is the fact that the strip is still being published today! The Phantom is truly the man who cannot die!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bottleneck Gallery posted The Phantom print above as well as another (with variants of both) by Henrik Sahlstrom.\u00a0 Seeing these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56,54,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32389,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32363\/revisions\/32389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}