Marc Tyler Nobleman, a Patron of this blog, suggested I have the Phantom Stranger meet The Phantom of The Opera, and that concept just started snowballing! With a team this large, I couldn't fit all of the artists used in the labels. This cover features illustrations by Ross Andru, Jaime Hernandez, Andy Smith, Peter Snejberg, Steve Mitchell, Herb Trimpe and Paul Becton.
With Today being Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) maybe a cover with El Tigre meeting Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi; the two cartoons are similar-looking and both have ethnic references.
ReplyDeleteWasn't AmiYumi the J-pop duo who initially narrated "Teen Titans Go"?
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DeleteMaybe Ross can do that tomorrow for All Souls' Day. November 1 is traditionally All Saints' Day (for saints who don't have an individual feast day already).
Delete@Cary: PuffyAmiYumi also had their own series (produced by Renegade Animation).
Delete@my namesake: "El Tigre" was co-produced by Boulder Media of Ireland and an American outfit called 6PointHarness. So, the similarity could've been coincidence.
Sorry for the too late suggestion.
DeleteI'm not 100% sure. But, wasn't this also a periodic request on the part of either Bob Greenwade and/or Det. Tobor? If so, I thank you on their behalves for fulfilling their requests. A delightful after-Halloween treat, indeed!
ReplyDeleteProbably, I've received a few requests for a team like this.
DeleteI don't think I've ever requested a team of a bunch of Phantoms, Cary; I have had the idea of a team featuring Captain Avenger, the Crimson Avenger, the Toxic Avenger, et al... though a name for such a group........?
DeleteHow about...the Wanna-B Team?
DeleteNow that’s what I call a Phantom Menace
ReplyDeleteGOOD ONE! :-)
DeleteThanks Ross! I'm sure already in the works is a sequel in the Phantom Zone.
ReplyDeleteThat's just excellent.
ReplyDeleteThe Phantom Blot had better beware!
ReplyDeleteThe Phantom Rider? sounds more like a 40's Republic Movie Serial.
ReplyDeleteThat's what Marvel renamed their Silver Age Western Ghost Rider after Johnny Blaze came on the scene in the early 1970's.
DeleteI guess the writers thought it would prevent them from getting carpal tunnel syndrome from over-use of Roman numerals.
DeleteMy fave The Phantom Of The Fair didn't make the cut? For shame!
ReplyDeleteAlso The Phantom Feline A.K.A. Boo (The Funky Phantom's pet) didn't make the cut either? Double shame!!
Maybe 4 members can meet Casper, Spooky, Nightmare (the ghost horse) & the Ghostly Trio on a future cover along with new members Boo The Phantom Feline & the Phantom Of The Fair.
Boo's probably busy working the graveyard shift at the Cat Precinct. As for the Phantom of the Fair, which one do you mean? The Golden Age mystery man from Centaur Comics (renamed Gravestone by Malibu Comics)? Or the Nazi saboteur who fought both the Sandman and the Crimson Avenger at the NYC World's Fair (in a 1980's issue of DC's "Secret Origins" mag)?
ReplyDeletewith all these Phantoms, the only thing missing is Abbott & Costello ( & maybe Scooby-Doo)! Where is Dick Tracy NOW??
ReplyDeleteAccording to Jonathan King?
Delete"Everyone's gone...to the moon."
I recognise most of them, but not the apparent ghost at far left or the one in green at the back. Would any of you care to identify those for me?
ReplyDeleteThe transparent one at upper left with the tri-corner hat is the title character from Hanna-Barbera's 1971 animated series "Funky Phantom" (an ABC Saturday morning cartoon). Dawes Butler played the voice of Jonathan Muddlemore; the ghost of a colonial-era milquetoast who suffocated to death (along with his cat, Boo) after accidentally getting stuck in a grandfather clock while hiding out from some British soldiers trying to intercept a message to George Washington that he had been tasked to deliver. The teenage amateur sleuths who inadvertently released him (and affectionately called him "Mudsy") solved seemingly supernatural mysteries with his and Boo's help.
DeleteThe guy in green, to his left, is Bob Phantom. One of Archie Comics' Golden Age superheroes briefly revived in the mid-1960's. He was a costumed crime-fighting reporter with the seemingly mutant power to self-teleport!
Thank you.
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