The Phantom

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Full Name	Kit Walker
Alias(es)	The Ghost Who Walks Christopher Walker The Man Who Cannot Die Johnny Hotwire Eduardo Ferigato The Guardian of the Eastern Dark Kip Mr. Walker Julie Walker Mysterious Commander
Origin	Ace Comics #11
Occupation	No information
Powers / Skills	Agility Escape Artist Insanely Rich Intellect Invisibilty Leadership Marksmanship Power Item Stamina Stealth Swordsmanship Tracking Unarmed Combat Weapon Master
Hobby	No information
Goals	No information
Family	No information
Friends / Allies	No information
Enemies	No information
Type of Hero	Masked Superhero

The Phantom is a comic strip created by Lee Falk (also creator of Mandrake the Magician), recounting the adventures of a costumed crime-fighter called the Phantom. The series began with a daily newspaper strip on February 17, 1936, which was joined by a colour Sunday strip in May of 1939; both are still running as of 2006 and are read by millions of people every day. Lee Falk died in 1999, and the newspaper comics are now written by Tony DePaul and drawn by Paul Ryan (daily strip) and Graham Nolan (Sunday strip). Previous artists on the newspaper strip include Ray Moore, Wilson McCoy, Bill Lignante, Sy Barry, George Olesen, Keith Williams and Fred Fredericks. The Phantom is also successfully published in comic books throughout the world, by several different publishers.

The Phantom is credited as being the first "costumed superhero", i.e. the first crimefighter to wear the skintight costume attributed to comic book superheroes, and being the first hero to have white eyes behind his mask, a phenomenon very common with superheroes. Previous fictional crime fighters, such as Zorro and Doc Savage, were not designed especially for newspaper comic strips or comic books.