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What was the first Phantom story you ever read and how did it come about? Here's mine...

It was Christmas Day 2001 and I was 8. After an eventful morning of waking up at 4am and waking my INFURIATED parents up, some of the family came up for Christmas Lunch. Now, I remember getting asked by my Grandpa what I would like for Christmas and I said "Comic books!" [At this time I was just starting to explore the wonderful world of comic books through ARCHIE COMICS and BATMAN: GOTHAM ADVENTURES]
My Grandpa looked at me for a minute and he said "I have just the thing," So, anyways, my Grandpa gave me this present and I ripped into it. Guess what I found inside? The answer will shock you....
2 Frew Phantom Comics! #1308: "The Invisible Phantom" by BEN RAAB and #1307: The Tiger of Ragoon". So I was pretty shocked as I had never seen any Phantom comics before. So then when everyone had left I read the masterpiece that is #1308 and the coolness that is "1307". And so, I fell in love with "The Ghost Who Walks"

So, that is my life story.. oops.. so that is how I read my first Phantom story. On a side note my first Moonstone was the GN "The Hunt" [also by Ben Raab:mrgreen:]

Man, Brucey... It would be impossible to find a better "first story" than The Invisible Phantom. Boy, it's way too cool for school.

I bought my first Phantom comic because of the Skull Ring which followed as a freebie, and the rest is a history of a lot of money spent on God knows how many Ghost Who Walks comics and collectables. I am a Phantom-addict, but I have never regretted my choice of buying that comic back in 1999.

I seem to recall my grandparents newspapper ran the Phantom strip in it, so when I'd stay with them I'd read it. it was cool to get a little piece of an adventure every day.

The story had something to do with a lost jungle expidition.

The first actual comic I read was a collection of strips ( I think done by Eclipse) in a trade paperback format. story title escapes me but there was an evil oriental mastermind.

I'll have to dig through my boxes and see if I still have it. I got one collecting Phantom stories and one with Mandrake stories in a used book store.

Fun reads.

If I remember correctly mine was Hoogan's Revenge. It's still one of my favorite stories.

I simply cannot remember because I grew up on them

My step dad always borrowed them and so I guess it was natural for me to become an addict of the Phantom. I feel in love with them at the age of 12 though with the Egmont story "The Set Up"

The Set Up is a brilliant story, I fondly remember that from when I was a youngin.

Tell me about it, The Invisible Phantom is just amazing! And isn't everything too cool for school

DOUGY

Hoogan's Revenge is one of the best. Lots of action with a gripping script, what more could a guy ask for?:mrgreen:

The first story I read was in the Sunday papers in either 1979 or 1980 and I can't for the life of me remember what it was about, other than the Phantom taking out some bad guys in the jungle. I loved it, but just didn't have the patience at the time to follow a tale that only gave me about 2 minutes worth of reading a week. So, I went looking for Phantom comic books and since there were none being produced at the time, turned my attention to more mainstream US comic books.

I'm really hoping to avert that from happening to any kids these days.

I really don't remember the title of the first Phantom story I read. The time was the summer of 1997 and I was doing an internship at an archives in fulfillment of a requirement for my Master's Degree. One of the jobs I was given was to find information about a collection of old photographs that had been "orphaned" thanks to some writing on the backs of the photos I had a family name to go on and from there it was to the obituaries of the local newspapers on microfilm. As I whirred through reel after reel of microfilm dating back to the late 1930's I started stopping on the "funny pages" to read through some selected strips just as a treat for having to deal with all the hunting. One of the first times I stopped there, near the top of the page, was a striking Mandrake the Magician strip. I had some vague recollections of hearing the character's name mentioned so I read it and throughly enjoyed it. What should be just below Mandrake but The Phantom. These two became my regular reading material every time I had to do microfilm searches. I must have read dozens of both strips from the 30's all the way through the 40's.

When the summer ended and so did my internship, though, that was my last Phantom reading I did until recently.

Now that is a cool story. Never heard of anyone getting hooked into the Phantom and Mandrake like that before