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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published October 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Bill Harris
Notes 10014-311

Cover Details - "The Phantom Battles the Swamp Rats!"

Genre superhero; jungle
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Notes 10014-311

1 page Keys of Knowledge filler "Peoples of Africa - 7 The Fantis"

Genre fact

15 page Phantom story "The Swamp Rats"

Genre superhero; jungle
Script Bill Harris
Pencils Bill Lignante
Inks Bill Lignante
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Story title and page count from FlashJay and Ted Watson via the Error Tracker (January 2009). Writer, artist and letterer credits assumed from rest of issue.

4 page King, Queen and Jack story "Rogue Elephant"

Genre jungle
Pencils Bill Lignante
Inks Bill Lignante
Letters Ben Oda

1 page Phan-Mail letters page

Letters typeset
Notes First letters column

12 page Phantom story "The Phantom's Boyhood"

Genre superhero; jungle
Script Bill Harris
Pencils Bill Lignante
Inks Bill Lignante
Letters Ben Oda
Notes 1st of a series showing the boyhood of the Phantom. This one shows his birth. Continues in 6 and 7.

1 page Keys of Knowledge filler "Fish - 22 Bonefish"

Genre fact