Talk:The Phantom

The kids
The addition "and after their birth there were several episodes of The Phantom changing diapers and looking for lost toys." keeps getting removed by anonymous users. What's the deal here? // Liftarn 10:48, 21 July 2005‎

I'm the "anonymous user" (only anonymous because I haven't bothered to register yet). It has been common for people who disapproved of the Phantom's marriage and raising a family to claim that "the Phantom is all about diapers and babies now" in a derogatory way. But the fact is that it is an opinion that is very loosely based on fact. To claim that there are "several episodes of The Phantom changing diapers and looking for lost toys." is simply incorrect. There are some stories where the Phantom's family life is mentioned but rarely, if ever, the basis of an entire episode. //AE (soon-to-be-member?)


 * No, not an entre episode, but there were several episodes where the kids played a part, for instance in one episode The Phantom went back to look for a lost toy and saw some bad guys doing something. In another episode his position was revealed because one of the kids started to cry. So it's correct to say that there were "several episodes of The Phantom changing diapers and looking for lost toys", but the episodes weren't entierly about that. // Liftarn 01:48, 25 July 2005

I would agree that on several occasions the Phantom's family life was featured in the strip after the birth of the twins, but not that there were several "episodes of the Phantom changing diapers" (I can think of only one, and that was in a dream sequence) and "looking for lost toys" (you give one example, and that is the only one I can remember too). If you added something about his family life/raising the twins (and not highlighting diapers and toys) aswell as find some other word than "episode" (which can easily be interpreted as the whole episode) it would be more correct. //AE

Guran
I edited a section claiming Mandrake the Magician was the Phantom's best man at his wedding, which is misinformation. I wrote a new article about Guran, and also about the Skull Cave. Would anybody help out with pictures? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.167.131.224 (talk) 04:08, 1 August 2006‎

Australian Woman's mirror
I removed the picture from the woman magazine to the Lee Falk page. The Phantom page is getting a bit crowded with all these pictures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.167.131.224 (talk) 13:45, 10 August 2006‎

Diana Palmer and Guran
I have written articles about both Diana Palmer and Guran now. It would be appreciated if anybody could help out with a picture or two. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.167.131.224 (talk) 10:20, 11 September 2006‎

Toys
Someone just added a new section to the article, called "Toys". I don't think it belongs here; but it could do if it was more expansive and looked less like a commercial for Shocker Toys' Phantom action figure. Comments? KIT WALKER — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.167.131.224 (talk) 06:24, 4 November 2006‎

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“Pupils”?
The article refers more than once to the character’s eyes being drawn without pupils when masked; while this may be technically so, they are also drawn without irises too (indeed, this is more obvious than the lack of a pupil, as unmasked cartoon characters often appear only to have a large iris (drawn as an otherwise featureless black dot), with or without the white sclera); they are effectively blank eyeballs, not simply pupil-less. Jock123 (talk) 09:19, 4 June 2018 (UTC)