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Back on the subject of Don Newton, I was just looking again at his THE PHANTOM issues from 1975-1977. I've looked back at them 3 or 4 times in the last month, and it's a nice little run, right before he came over to DC and began his run on NEW GODS 11-19 (concluded in ADVENTURE COMICS 459-460), and a few scattered short stories in HOUSE OF MYSTERY, TIME WARP, and others, before moving on to DETECTIVE COMICS (1978-1982), in BATMAN (1982-1984), and Shazam in WORLD'S FINEST 253-281 (1978-1982).

THE PHANTOM
67 "Triumph of Evil" Joe Gill story, 23 p Oct 1975
68 "The Beasts of Madame Kahn" Nicola Cuti story, 22p, Dec 1975
70 "Mystery of the Mali Ibex" Bill Pearson story, 22p, April 1976
71 "The Monster of Zanadar" John Clark story, 22p, July 1976
73 "He is called The Torch" Bill Pearson story (under acronym), 22p, Oct 1976.
74 "The Phantom of 1776" Newton story and art, 22p, Jan 1977

A great and varied 6-issue run. They're fun little self-contained stories, with beautiful art. These are the first I've seen where Newton did both pencils and inks. And even as compared to Newton inked by the likes of Rubinstein, Adkins, Giordano, Marcos and others as talented, Newton's work definitely gains a more decorative line when inking himself, as Newton did on all 6 of these issues.



The painted cover for issue 74 is particularly nice, and I love the way Newton blends in his own "John Hancock" signature on the Declaration-styled cover, right next to John Hancock's "John Hancock", written in the same handwriting!