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This is a complete list of Indrajal Comics featuring the Phantom (with GEMs highlighted).  The list includes links for the following: (a) Wiki page (from the PhantomWiki site), (b) e-book (available upon request), and (c) More info on each comic (via optional posts by various contributors).

Please note that the list is sortable by each column. (Multiple levels of sorting are possible by sorting more than one column in succession, from lowest to highest.)  You can also do an instant filtering of the table by entering a character string in the ‘Search’ field.

The Phantom mythology created by Lee Falk is truly fascinating, and it is remarkable that the essence of the character has not changed in nearly a century.  The Phantom is hugely popular all over the world, especially in South Asia, Australia and the Nordic countries.  Most Indians (like myself) were introduced to the Phantom through Indrajal Comics, which started publication in March 1964 and is the oldest indigenously produced comic book in India.  These comics are beloved by Indians across the world who grew up between the 1960s and the 1980s.  (They were published in multiple Indian languages, which added to their attraction.)  The vast majority of the Indrajal comic books contained reprints of the daily and Sunday stories (usually with new titles), though the covers had original artwork by Indian artists (most notably B. Govind).

Starting in 1966, the Indrajal issues began to include Phantom stories from other sources such as Gold Key, King and Charlton comics.  In my opinion, the quality of the Gold Key and King stories is pretty good (though they depart from Lee Falk’s signature style on the newspaper strips), but I find the Charlton Phantom stories to be very unappealing, with poor writing and art.  Thus, although I have included the Charlton stories on the Indrajal list below for completeness, I have excluded them in the ‘Other Comics‘ subsection, as they are definitely not to my taste.

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