Lee Falk – A Lenda Dos Quadrinhos (which translates to Lee Falk – The Comic Book Legend) is a book published by Noir Editora LTDA in Brazil in 2024. The book is a biography of Lee Falk, the creator of the Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, written by Gonçalo Junior.
The book was initially offered in March 2024 on the Catarse website, a crowdfunding platform that enables users to collaboratively raise money for creative projects in Brazil. The book was successfully funded and was available for purchase direct from the publisher, Noir Editora.
Noir Editora is a Brazilian publishing house that specializes in bringing a wide range of works to the Portuguese-speaking audience. Their catalog includes a diverse selection of genres and topics, from comic books and graphic novels to biographies, essays, and works of fiction. They have a particular interest in subjects that are both culturally and historically significant, with titles exploring the lives of influential figures, the history of media like radio and comics, and social commentaries.
Lee Falk – A Lenda Dos Quadrinhos is a paperback book containing 320 black-and-white pages measuring 14cm x 21cm, with text in Portuguese. The work is rich in information, which is supported and accompanied by illustrations. The cover features a profile image of the Phantom, as shown below.
A sample of internal pages can be seen below.
The description provided by Noir Editora in online advertisements 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.
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