Published by Editora Noir in Brazil is a book titled ‘Lee Falk – A Lenda dos Quadrinhos‘.

‘Lee Falk – The Legend of Comics‘ (English translation) is a biography of Lee Falk, the creator of the Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, written by Gonçalo Junior. It contains 320 black and white pages measuring 14cm x 21cm.

The book was initially offered in March on the Catarse website, a crownfunding platform that enables users to collaboratively raise money for creative projects in Brazil. The book was successfully funded and is now available for purchase direct from Editora Noir.

The description provided by Editora Noir in the online advertisement reads:

You don’t know anything about Lee Falk. But he created Mandrake (1934) and The Phantom (1936), two classics of adventure comics. Or that he spent 63 of his 88 well-lived years writing his strips and Sunday pages for newspapers and comic strips. This book reveals who he really was: the director and producer of more than 300 plays, twelve of which were his own, the administrator of six theaters alongside comic artist Al Capp, the manager who fought segregationism and gave protagonism to black people on stage and who fought with his four lawyer sons for black rights in the 1960s. If you love Mandrake and The Phantom you will be enchanted and even fall in love with one of the greatest comic book geniuses of all time.

The front cover plus a sample of internal pages can be seen below.

Lee Falk – A Lenda dos Quadrinhos, rich in both information and images, is currently only available in Portuguese text. Lets hope the book is translated to English, which I’m sure will be greatly appreciated by a wider audience and serve as a great resource on the life of Lee Falk and his creations.

To read more about Lee Falk – A Lenda dos Quadrinhos on the Editora Noir website, click HERE

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