The Phantom, By Lee Falk - 1369 Words

The Phantom, just like the Phoenix myth appears, disappears and again reappears; born only when the prior Phantom ceases to exist. The readers are quite aware of the fact that under the dark purple outfit and the skull mask there lurked a white man, the man with white skin and black mask. And though there was the mysterious Anglo credit â€Å"Lee Falk† on the top of each Phantom comics, the signature of the author Lee Falk was unremarkable and the readers didn’t know him as a person. What the readers do know is the mysterious exotic Phantomic setting: â€Å"darkest part of Africa with its big games, the witch doctors and the almost naked black natives† (Friese n.p). The Phantomic paraphernalia is associated time and again with the colossal western†¦show more content†¦These treasures, on the other hand, are the symbolic denominations of the Western culture at different points of history which make the skull cave an imaginary chronotope of almost everything that nourishes western fantasies in the context of colonial enterprise at a non-western space and making him the grand example westernness per se. There are numerous spine-chilling adventures of Phantom down through the history- the fifth Phantom fought with the pirate Blackbeard, in the first half of 15th century, the 13th Phantom fought along with Lafitte in the battle of 1812. Fig. 28. The Brides of Phantom. Lee Falk. The 22nd Phantom, n.p One of the early Phantom married Columbus’s granddaughter and another is known to have married Shakespeare’s niece and still another married a Mongolian princess (Amrita n.p). These facts, myths, legends, anecdotes of several adventures including the ones in which Phantom encounters with the orients-the African, the Mongolians, the Red Indians and so on, and are brought together in the context of Phantom’s personal and familial histories thus providing a thorough details of Phantomic genealogy. It should also be noted that the colour of Phantom’s horse is white and its name is ‘hero’ symbolically suggesting an affiliation of whiteness with heroism. On the other hand, the colour of Phantom’s trained pet wolf is black and is named ‘Devil’- the perennial association ofShow MoreRelatedEssay On Phantom Comics1882 Words   |  8 Pages†¢ REPRESENTATION OF THE ‘OTHERS’ IN PHANTOM COMICS AND ITS EFFECT ON CHILDRE N Phantom, a very popular comics superhero is adapted in various forms of media including, television, movies and videogames. Media features a crime fighter in peculiar costumes operating not only in the deep woods of Africa but also in the urbanscapes wherever crime looms large. The Phantom series first came out in the daily newspaper strips on seventeenth February, 1936, was followed by a colour strip which came out onRead MoreEssay On Cultural Imperialism1526 Words   |  7 PagesThe primary objective of this chapter is to explore the cries of cultural imperialism, how this operates through the comics as those of The Phantom by Lee Falk, Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond and Tintin by Herge and how they have discovered more prominent support from overseas readers, both as daily paper/magazine comics series and also in the form of comic books. In no place has these comics been appreciated more enthusiastically than in Australia, India and Sweden and the other earstwhile colonisedRead Mo reWalt Disney Case16863 Words   |  68 Pageson the map.† During this time, Disney produced the NBC hit sitcom Golden Girls, the popular Saturday-morning cartoon Disney’s Adventures of Gummi Bears, and the syndicated non-network shows Siskel Ebert at the Movies and Live with Regis Kathie Lee. Eisner also created a syndication operation to sell to independent TV stations some of the TV programming that Disney had accumulated over 30 years. Disney’s movie division was nearly as moribund when Eisner and Wells took over. Disney’s share of