Fantasma – A Biografia Oficial do Primeiro Herói Fantasiado dos Quadrinhos (which translates to Phantom – Official Biography of the First Costumed Hero of Comics) was published by Opera Graphic Editora in Brazil in 2009. The book contains the publishing history of the Phantom in Brazil from 1936 through to the books release. This edition would be the last publication to be released by Opera Graphic Editora before it’s closure.

The hardcover album style book contains 144 pages in both color and black and white, measuring 26.5cm x 36cm in Portuguese text. The book is written by communication professor and researcher Marco Aurélio Lucchetti and edited by Franco de Rosa. Within the 17 chapters, we find information about the various comic book series published in Brazil plus articles and interviews with artists who made a contribution to the Phantom in Brazil, including Valmir Amaral and Gutemberg Monteiro who produced stories for Rio Gráfica Editora.

The front and back cover of Fantasma – A Biografia Oficial do Primeiro Herói Fantasiado dos Quadrinhos can be seen below, with a profile image of the Phantom as illustrated by Ray Moore seen on the front cover.

The advertisement description seen for the book as issued by Opera Graphic Editora reads:

The Phantom was one of the first costumed heroes in comics and even without having superpowers he is considered a superhero. His saga based on the mythology of immortality by maintaining a tradition of 4 centuries from father to son makes him a distinct character, a vigilante who is impossible to defeat. Work with more than 1,000 images ‘Phantom: Official Biography of the First Costumed Hero of Comics’ shows the conception and evolution of a unique universe rich in themes and characters that includes the generations of the 20 Ghosts of the past and futuristic versions and different media: cinema TV newspapers magazines plus a broad iconography, in short, everything that refers to this fabulous hero of sequential art. Many curiosities permeate this work, such as the colors of his uniform, which varied depending on the time and place in which it was published; at the end of the edition, for example, it was discovered that ‘The Phantom’ was the first comic book star to act in a crossover in 1939 in a story published in Brazil in the pioneering Suplemento Juvenil.

A sample of internal pages can be seen below.

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