"The Phantom in 28mm?" Topic

The Lee Falk character seems like a natural for Pulp games, though if one wants to get technical he is a comic strip character. I personally can easily imagine him teaming up with, say, Doc Savage. Or cropping up in a scenario on Skull Island (only a short flight from Bengalla).

Two pistols, purple superhero type custom with black domino mask. As seen here when he made the leap to movie serials: link

Does anyone make him? Probably the best situation would be what is seen with Old West figures, a standing and a mounted, as The Phantom had a horse, Hero, as well as a wolf, Devil; but that might be too wishful.

Peachy,
Maybe start e-mailing Bob Murch at Pulp Figures. His range would seem to be the natural place for such a figure.

In the meantime you can check out the Heroclix galleries at the Wizkids website. There are a few superheros whose costume, though a different color scheme, resembles the Phantom's. A simple repaint does the trick. Heroclixs are a bit thin and small when compared to 28s but it would make a good substitute until some figure manufactuer realizes the possibility.

I used the Paragon fig from the Superfigs line and just repainted him in purples and black. Plus I put a .45 auto in his hand.

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Did you paint the yellow and black diagonally striped shorts too? If ever anything was crying out for a costume redesign, that has to be it!

Yup! He definitely needs a fashion makeover, but I painted him up as close to the comics as I could!

Any chance of there being a picture of your Phantom on your site? I would love to see it.

I'll take a photo tonight and try to put it on the Sir Peter site in a day or so.
(I'll stick it in the "Characters" section.)

I needed a phantom figure for a gaslight game I ran a few years ago. I wound up getting a "clicky" superheroe and repainting him after removing the offending clicky base and remounting on a proper fender washer. Unfortunately I cant recall the original figure I used.
(finding one with duel pistols was inpossible so my Phantom has a pistol and a knife)

I just added the pic to the site — you can find it here:

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or here

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He aint beautiful but he's functional (and I only had 1 .45 to give him, if I get another I will add it to him).

technically since comics finally killed the pulps…… not really appropriate some might say in a pulp game

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Confused him with the Shadow.

@ jlstuht – He's certainly instantly identifiable.

@ ruggeddude – the Phantom was a newsapaper strip character, so not really in competition with pulp magazines. You don't want to have to rule out the Spirit or Terry and the Pirates as well, do you?

The Phantom fits within the Pulp time frame (1919-1945) and even though a comic strip character who went into the serials, he, like characters like Dick Tracy, is Pulp to me. Certainly the atmosphere (crime-fighting, defending the weak, sometimes lost cities, etc.) of Phantom stories is Pulp. One collection of strips I have has The Phantom defending Bangalla against WWII Japanese. How is that much different from Pulp stories in magazines? Then again, I don't have a problem with retroengineered Pulp stuff like WWII zombies and vampires so maybe my views on comic strip characters are atypical of most Pulp era players.

I would love to see Murch produce a "Jungle Defender", both standing and mounted and include a "mountain wolf" beside the horse. (Kind of like his Mountie pack.) His stuff is great! It does seem a natural fit for his line. Until then I very well end up trying to mod a figure. Where to get sprues of .45s? The Paragon figure from the Superfigs line does look nice, though I wonder if he will loom over everyone else as these figures are listed at 33mm.

As for coloring, Falk wanted him to be grey (and considered the name the Grey Ghost) but wihtout his consent the costume was printed in purple so it would stand out on the newspaper page. I would probably go grey with painting as the purple is a bit vivid. Also the trunks part of the costume would be solid as I just don't want to paint stripes.

Peachy,

I put up a comparison photo on my site for you to check the sizes. Da Phantom is between two Murch Pulp figs — the Doc Savage fig and my Lavender Shade bad guy.

You can check it out here:

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@ jlstuht – Nicely done Phantom miniature. I like it.

I, too, wish Bob would do a "Ghost Who Walks" miniature.

(I still need to get his packs with the "Shadowy Aventure" and his "Wierd Menace"

Later all,
Warrenss2 (aka Kit Walker)

(Sorry for the double post…)

@ ruggeddude – Pulp can happen in any time and any place. It's all in the neckbreak pace and action – and the plain black and white between good and evil – way in which the game is played.

I concider all the Star Wars movies pulp for this very reason.

Besides… The Phantom existed back in the 1920's & 30's too. He just wasn't the current 2006 incarnation. He was my great grandfather… er… I mean… I meant to say… he was the Phantom's great grandfather. We've.. I mean "they"… have been fighting crime from generation to generation. The son pick's up where the father ends.

Hense the rumors of my.. errrr… HIS nickname…

The Ghost Who Walks

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Sorry for dragging on… but besides Doc Savage and The Shadow… The Phantom is an all-time favorite of mine.

And just as a point of note: It's been stated by several pulp authorities that it was not comics that caused the decline of pulps. Pulps suffered under the cost and lack of paper during WWII and then came the advent of the paperback novel. Comics were always geared toward kids whereas Pulps were aimed at all readers.

So, don't feel like you're betraying pulps by using a comic character.

My character the Gargoyle was inspired by The Sandman from the JSA.

Richard A. Johnson
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Jim: Thanks for the comparison picture (as well as everything else on your site). As my original vision was Doc and The Phantom together in an adventure it was exactly what I needed to see. Where did you get the gun you added to the Superfigs figure?

I think (but don't hold me to it!) it came from a sprue of weapons from Steve Barber. But there are also weapon sprues available from Ral Partha (Single Malt Miniatures) as well as a couple of others out there. Hopefully some other folks will add where they've found some.

The Assault Group also sells sprues for the weapons they use. So there might well be some .45s available from their WW2 America in the Pacific range.

There is a "the phantom" on cmon .

"The Phantom fits within the Pulp time frame (1919-1945) and even though a comic strip character who went into the serials, he, like characters like Dick Tracy, is Pulp to me."

Me too.

"Certainly the atmosphere (crime-fighting, defending the weak, sometimes lost cities, etc.) of Phantom stories is Pulp. One collection of strips I have has The Phantom defending Bangalla against WWII Japanese. How is that much different from Pulp stories in magazines?"

Not different at all. I think most fans of "pulp" magazines would agree that comic strips, pulp magazines, radio shows and the serials are strongly linked.

jlstuht,

Great conversion for the Phantom! Thanks for sharing. I especially liked the comparison shot. Now that I just ordered .45 Adventure the old creative juices are flowing and this board helps generate some fun ideas.

Jess

Oh yeah. The Phantom is definitely Pulp. He always reminded me a bit of the Spider, to be honest. Love 'em all.

I found this while going over the index to manufacturers today. link I have the Tesla figure and I can vouch for the quality of these figures.

An unhappy update to my previous post. My emails to Blackarmy have all returned.