THIS WEEK ON MOONSTONE CLIFFHANGER FICTION- Moonstone Books and ALL PULP are proud to present a jungle action adventure tale from MOONSTONE CLIFFHANGER FICTION featuring Lee Falk’s THE PHANTOM! This is another slam bam tale by Mike Bullock, longtime writer of THE PHANTOM for Moonstone and current writer of BLACK BAT, SAVAGE BEAUTY, and creator…
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GUEST REVIEW OF THE WEEK! DR. HERMES RETURNS
) From February 1975, this was adapted from Lee Falk’s original 1963 story by Warren Shanahan, who did a really good job with it, much better than most of the other books in the Avon series. THE ISLAND OF DOGS gives the Phantom a worthwhile challenge to face and presents a hero who is as…
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Historic Heroes Collide in Moonstone Hardcover!
1128 South State Street Lockport, Illinois, 60441 815-834-1658 http://www.moonstonebooks.com/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-11/17/10, Lockport Illinois-HISTORIC HEROES COLLIDE IN MOONSTONE Hardcover! The Ghost Who Walks. The Original Super-Hero Action Figure. Two characters that make fans of heroic fiction and toys stand up and take notice. Moonstone. The one company that brings these American icons together again for…
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MOONSTONE MONDAY-Hancock Tips his Hat to Martin Powell’s THE HUNGRY SWAMP!!!
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews by Tommy Hancock “The Hungry Swamp” a tale from the anthology THE PHANTOM CHRONICLES, VOLUME ONE, Moonstone BooksWritten by Martin Powell There are lots of great things to say about Lee Falk’s The Phantom. If you know of him at all, you know most of the tropes: the jungle setting, the tribesmen…
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Captain Action and The Phantom to finally meet
We missed posting something about this the other day but it’s still cool enough for us to talk about. The revival of Captain Action now means he can begin meeting the super-heroes his action figure incarnation transformed into. This begin in March with Moonstone’s release of Phantom Action, a crossover between King Feature’s classic comic…
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ComicMix Quick Picks – what day is it? March 32nd?
What it’s been like here recently… Just way too much stuff to go through, and we’ve been very busy with the print announcement and rushing to get things ready for the Previews catalog, and I have dozens of tabs open to blog about and consolidate. Wheeee! So this will be more of a high-speed link…
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Tim Boyle Wants to Direct ‘The Phantom Legacy’
Australia loves The Phantom, so when news broke over the weekend that the comic strip legend was returning to the silver screen, the local media began covering it in earnest. Tim Boyle told the Courier Mail that he would love to direct The Phantom Legacy which he is writing. The writer/director most recently saw his…
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‘Phantom Legacy’ Writer Says New Film a Reboot
Garth Franklin at Dark Horizons chatted briefly with Tim Boyle, the man charged with writing the just announced The Phantom Legacy. “First up this is a reboot ala Batman Begins and not a sequel to Simon Wincer’s 1996 feature film as has been previously reported,” Franklin wrote. “There are two main villains in this –…
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‘The Phantom’ Coming Back to the Silver Screen
The Phantom never dies. From father to son, the legacy is passed on, protecting Africa from evil in all forms dating back 21 generations. A second generation live-action film about the ageless hero was announced by Symington Productions according to the Associated Press. Producer Bruce Sherlock obtained the rights to explore the themes in The…
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Moonstone and Dynamite Both Publishing ‘The Phantom’
While last weekend’s Wizard World Chicago convention didn’t feature much in the way of news, there were a few announcements that had people talking. Among them was Saturday’s announcement by Dynamite Entertainment that the publisher had acquired the rights to Lee Falk’s The Phantom comic strips. The announcement created quite a buzz, as publisher Moonstone…
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ComicMix Radio: Wizard World Chicago Day Two – Sadness and Confusion
Saddened by the loss of Michael Turner, activity here in Chicago got off to a slow start today. Things, however, took a left turn when Dynamic Forces dropped the news that they were the new publishers of the Judge Dredd/2000AD line as well as The Phantom. Fans and fellow publishers were all shocked at the…
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Pulps and pulp comics
There has been quite a revival of interest in the old pulp heroes over the last year or two. Moonstone Books launched with the pulp-like exploits of Kolchak the Night-Stalker before adding characters such as The Phantom and The Spider, while Anthony Tollin has relaunched The Shadow and Doc Savage in two lines of facsimile…
