The Phantom: The Complete Avon Novels: Volume 1: The Story of the Phantom: The Ghost Who Walks (The Phantom Avon)

I'm not much of a writer. So just know that this is a very enjoyable book. If you like the Phantom, you will like this story. I wish that I'd found it as a child. But all I knew was from the newspaper comics page. That was enough. But now I have read the story behind the story. Maybe you should too?

I had read this book many years ago. I still have a dog eared.paperback.copy that I picked up at a yard sale in the late 70's somewhere. I still remembered the story and wanted to read it again.

Originally from accomplishing decades ago, I have waited and waited for these on kindle. Bravo. Hopefully they will print ask of them. Great Ghost who walks novelizations.

After Tarzan, the Phantom is my favorite jungle as well as the first and best of the masked "superheroes." I really enjoyed Falk's more detailed backstory!

I enjoyed it very much... a couple of typos, but a fun (and something that filled in some background info) tale.I will be trying to get #2, and all 15 at some point.

This is an excellent novelization of the origin of The Phantom, by Lee Falk himself. It tells the history of the Phantom line, some of Phantom #20, and the whole youth of Phantom #21. There are too many typos, but it's still worth having for any real fan of this comic strip which is still going strong after 81 years.

Nice throw back to the days when hero's were good to the core and didn't need to have tragic things happen to motivate them. Great character, solid story telling and easy read. Highly recommend.

I bought this book for my brother who is a big Phantom Fan. He loved it. Sorry I cannot comment on content of book because I did not read it. I can only tell you my brother was highly pleased.

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I found this fascinating, The Ghost Who Walks is one of my earliest comicbook memories, a bound version, when 6 > 10 years old (now 65 plus)..........the costume, the horse, the wolfdog💀, good memories.Book recommended.

My childhood hero and his story collection from his birth upto becoming twenty first..... I love this....Waiting for 2nd volume now to be read soon...

While it annoying that the text isn't Justified, it is good of Hermes Press to finally give the world a reprint of the 15 Phantom novels, starting with this first one on the origin of the hero and his lineage. This is old school pulp hero goodness centered on a coming of age tale with a lot of good morals passed down from father to son. It's hard to believe this was released in the '70s as it is clearly of a much older time. And it shows. If you like superheroes, or are interested in The Phantom, you should definitely start here.

It would have been good if the novel would have started off with something about the author's background. For decades Lee Falk created these stories of a masked man who, for hundreds of years, fought crime on the high seas and elsewhere. Of course it was generational but the notion of a ghost who walks, a man who cannot die was born. Lee took his Phantom from stories about criminals let loose in the jungle that had to be apprehended to quirky tales of mechanical wonders and of princes that ruled their lands with an iron fist. Lee always wanted to be a novelist and not just a comic strip writer and he apparently got his wish.