![]() On July 31, 2011, Eduardo Barreto became the Sunday artist. Ryan succeeded Nolan as artist on the Sunday strip in 2007. Olesen and Williams left the daily strip after Olesen retired, and artist Paul Ryan took over the daily in early 2005. In 2000, Olesen and Fredericks retired from the Sunday strip, which was then taken over by artist Graham Nolan. DePaul would later become the sole writer of the strip. Tony DePaul and Claes Reimerthi alternated as writers of the daily and Sunday newspaper strips, respectively. They went from initially publishing Phantom stories in licensed comic books to providing the stories for the newspaper strip by adapting their own comic-book stories. After Falk's passing, King Features Syndicate collaborated with the European comics publisher Egmont on the strip. His last daily and Sunday strip stories, "Terror at the Opera" and "The Kidnappers", respectively, were finished by his wife, Elizabeth Falk, after the hospitalized Falk had torn off his oxygen mask to dictate the adventures. įalk continued to script Phantom until his death on March 13, 1999. ![]() The Sunday strip was inked by Eric Doescher until Fred Fredericks became the regular inker in 1995. īarry's longtime assistant, George Olesen, remained on the strip as penciller, with Keith Williams joining as the inker for the daily strip. Barry would continue working on the strip for over 30 years before retiring in 1994. Following McCoy's death in 1961, Carmine Infantino and Bill Lignante (who would later draw several Phantom stories directly for comic books) filled in before Sy Barry was chosen as a successor. Upon Moore's return, he worked on the strip on and off until 1949, when McCoy succeeded him. During Moore's World War II military service, he left the strip to his assistant, Wilson McCoy. A Sunday Phantom strip was added to newspapers on May 28, 1939. Lee Falk's syndicated newspaper comic strip The Phantom premiered on February 17, 1936, with the story "The Singh Brotherhood", written by Falk and illustrated first by himself, for two weeks, followed by Ray Moore, who was an assistant to artist Phil Davis on Falk's Mandrake the Magician strip.
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