14 More Months of The Phantom Daily strips
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This volume collects another fourteen months of Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy's Phantom strips. From December 1947 to February 1949. We get only three storylines this time due to the fact that these stories are quite long and also then it leaves room for a lengthy interview with the Lee Falk.

For those of you not familiar with the Hermes Press format . We get a good handsome sewn binding Hard Cover with crisp black and white illustrations on glossy slick paper.  The strips run two to a page in the landscape large format.

Ethan Roberts does a nice introduction with some color illustrations accompanying it.

The first storyline Devils Road  runs a full half a year and it is a very entertaining Jungle Adventure.  The story starts when the Phantom discovers a mysterious highway in the middle of an unexplored part of the jungle.  When he questions the natives they tell him of a "Devil Car" which uses the road and is forbidden to look upon. Of course there is a beautiful girl and her elderly father whom require rescuing.

The second story runs almost as long running with five months. The Girls (Lady Luck) is actually a retelling of the Phantom's second ever story line The Sky Band about a band of all female sky pirates.  The Sky Band would even get a sequel story The Return Of The Sky Band.  Now Falk has tweaked that idea and made them an all Female group of naval pirates on a boat named the Lady Luck.

Diane Palmer, the Phantom's girlfriend gets tricked into joining them. They have a cool underground base on the deserted and unapproachable Flamingo Island. I also like the way they lure ships in by pretending to be sunbathing on a raft. This was my favorite story of the collection.

The final story The Masked Marvel runs only three months but is also a fun change of pace as the Phantom pretends to be a Masked boxer.  Of course it is all to help Disabled kids.  Diane demonstrates some Lois Lane like bad judgment but she figures it out in the end.

The 14 page interview with creator / writer Lee Falk is the icing on the cake.  In this 1983 interview Falk talks about the creation of the character, The Mandrake never made movie, the Avon Phantom novels and much more.  Most interesting was his thoughts on his different artistic collaborators.

Another great volume , bring on the next one.

Highly Recommended.
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Hermes Press has outdone itself. For fans of 1930's and1940's Sunday Newspaper strips they can't go wrong by purchasing the earlier Hermes Press Release of the Phantom Sundays- Volume 1; cheaper price, outstanding stories, and more pages with an additional story not included in the Phantom Archives Edition (The Impostor) .  And the images reproduced in glossy paper are sharper than the ones in the Archives.  BUT for hardcore Phantom Phans, the PHANTOM Archives is a volume not be missed. It is the Holy Grail of Phantom Sunday Stories Collections. I have never seen a better collection in any language. It is in the significantly larger size of the original Sunday pages, about 65% bigger, and it will transport you to the original experience of reading the Sunday pages as they first appeared,  in their pristine and authentic appearance. This is based on an actual comparison with many of the original pages I own. For fans of Lee Falk, both volumes will satisfy.  For those of us who believe that Ray Moore was the best Phantom artist, to have his work reproduced in its original newspaper size, is a long overdue tribute. The Phantom Archives are worth the extra expense.
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Very good book;  fans have been waiting a long time for the 14th in this enjoyable series. You won't be disappointed !
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This Doonesbury Book is a collection from the "strips" of 2006. It almost seems that Trudeau is just trying to meet his commitments to his loyal fans. It deals with several of the things that have been and continue to go on. There is very little in the way of new situations,or characters. All the characters are ageing and when you really get down to it there is little in the way of humor or the great satire we loved in the strip.
 A while back,Trudeau took an extended  vacation and the strip has been somewhat lackluster ever since. He seems to be tired of the war scene,and is satisfied with commenting on things like battle scars and physocoligical problems. America has been very turbulent since the election in 2008; and Trudeau doesn't even seem to want to deal with it;other than a few passing comments. All the familiar characters like Duke,Lacy,Joanie, Redfern,Zonker,BD,and on and on are just getting rehashed,but with less vigor and imagination. Somehow ,I get the sense that Trudeau has turned the strip over to underlings to "keep it going",but they don't know what to do with it. The strip was always coming up with new and imaginative artwork and inovations;but there hasn't been much in that department either.
 It's no secret that the strip has always leaned to the left;but that didn't stop Trudeau from coming up with great satire during Carter's and Clinton's presidencies;but it seems that  Obama and those around him have given Trudeau something he just is unable or maybe uninterested in dealing with.
 Nonetheless;a lot of us have been longtime fans of the strip,and keep hoping for something to happen that will put the old life back into the strip. When we see that a good Icon for Obama appears and people like Pelosi,Franks,Axelrod,Rev. Wright,Ayres,Franken,take their place in today's political satire;we'll know Trudeau hasn't lost interest. Lord knows there is plenty to work with.
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This is a great issue, with the fantasy art of Paper Tiger Books, a preview of Outland, history of SF comics with a rare Tom Corbett Space Cadet comic strip, a Voyager view of Saturn, and interview with Thom Christopher of Buck Rogers, Escape From New York, and more!
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This is my eighth year to stare into my wall. I get a stereogram on my Facebook News Feed every day. Next year I will get another stereogram calendar with the MAGIC EYE endorsement.
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I believe it is my 5th one. I buy one every year. Love that it is a full page per day.
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I guess the big tip-off could be that he went as the web-slinger at Halloween this year. I think the comic book format was fun for him. I'm trying to instill the joys of reading to children. I love to read.
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The books are great to look at, well bound and attractive, slip case is great as well.  The notes inside give a great deal of history but are easy to digest and really add to our knowledge of the young mouse and his newspaper creator.  The strips are not as great as the dailies, most are Sunday laugh a day style but some have more and some have less story arc to them.  But this is the mouse people fell in love with in the 30's  They only saw him in theatres every few months, here you have his weekly appearances.
Some nice later Floyd G work is here as well, a 7 Dwarfs v. the Witch, 1001 Dalmatians and good old Lambert!  See him rise to the occasion on the printed page.
These pages might be great to read to a youngster at those early years.  Art and pictures work well together.
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I like the daily posts. They are funny but the calendar came off the holder on day one and it does not tear evenly. Those are my only complaints.
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I recently got the free 14 day trial of the columbus dispatch and will definitely subscribe. It shows up without fail by 8 am, usually by the time I check at 7. It's easy to navigate, and the graphics are great. Plus, I reduce the amount of paper coming into my house. I'm sold! The thing I really miss though, are the comics.
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I love gumball comics, it seems like the farther they get into the comics the more adds there are in the back. You are getting less and less comic, however i do love gumball so i will probably keep buying it
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The PEANUTS 2014 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR features a Peanuts comic strip for each day of the week of the year, except Saturdays and Sundays are featured on one page. This is disappointing for those who have been buying the Peanuts day-to-day calendars for years because it means no more full-page Sunday comics. I have either purchased or received as gifts several different 2014 day-to-day calendars and all of them have this format: Saturdays and Sundays are combined into one day. It's not something that just LLC Andrews McMeel Publishing has done but is something that is occurring throughout the industry. Of the three 2014 day-to-day calendars I have, published by three different publishers, they all have Saturday & Sundays combined into one day. Anyway, besides the Peanuts comic strip, the PEANUTS 2014 DAY-TO-DAY CALENDAR also features a little piece of trivia, riddle, or joke on the back of each page. There's also a small illustration of either Linus, Sally, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, or Peppermint Patty in the bottom-left-hand corner of the calendar. Even with the comic strip, illustration, and the date there's more than enough space to right appointments, reminders, or notes.
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I used to read all these strips when they were in paperback form. I remember being around 12 or 13 and pouring over them again and again, with the added luxury of checking out the action every day in the daily paper. It's very gratifying, now that my six-year old daughter is reading, to share these volumes with her and watch her lose herself among the pages, and then ask to be quizzed on the many special characteristics of the kids in Charlie Brown's neighborhood. The printing quality is extremely high, the panels are crystal clear and the detail is really sumptuous.

My favorite so far is the Sunday strip where Charlie Brown is attempting to fly a kite in heavy wind and his cap keeps getting blown off, which he doggedly replaces atop his head every time. In the end Linus posits this classic: "I have a suggestion. Why don't you wear the kite and fly your hat?" I long for the day when we will have the collected volumes, and the prices on Amazon reallyl cannot be beat. But I must say, I miss those cheap little paper back volumes from my early youth. Rats!
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My wife gave me a Three Stooges calendar for the holidays and unfortunately it has a problem.  The calendar is missing some months.  This is what the calendar has for 2015:

One page for September, October, November and December 2014.  (this is how they make it a 16 month calendar).
January 2015
February 2015
One page for September, October, November and December 2014.
January 2015
February 2015
September 2015
October 2015
November 2015
September 2015
October 2015
November 2015
December 2015

Missing are March, April, May, June, July and August 2015.  And these are some of my favorite months!

Perhaps the calendar makers know something that I don't but I think there's an error.
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And I can't wait to flip it to the first month of 2014! The art is all the title cards from the show. Which are pretty cool and highly stylized. Each month is perfectly matched with a similar related title card from the show. Even the font is cute!
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I love this comic strip and this book has some of the best material from the strip.  I will be looking for more of the Pickles books.