The Phantom: 90 Years of the Ghost Who Walks
In February 1936, a young writer named Lee Falk introduced American newspapers to a new kind of adventure hero—a hero who would inspire generations of readers, influence our idea of what a masked hero could be, and endure for a full 90 extraordinary years. That hero was The Phantom, known to contemporaries as 'The Ghost Who Walks' and 'The Man Who Cannot Die,' a mysterious masked crime-fighter whose legacy had mythical proportions almost from the very beginning.
