The Phantom postcards were produced by Moonstone Books in USA in 2006. A total of 18 postcards are found in the set, with 2 featuring the Phantom, created to promote the various titles and series in print by Moonstone Books at the time. Both Phantom postcards are fully licensed by King Features Syndicate.
Moonstone Books is an American publisher based in Chicago which was founded in 1995 by Joe Gentile. Moonstone Books publish comic books, graphic novels and prose fiction, with a focus on pulp fiction comic books and prose anthologies as well as horror and western tales.
Moonstone Books commenced publishing Phantom comics in 2002, in fact they’re the first American publisher to produce and print new Phantom stories since Marvel Comics cancelled their Phantom 2040 comic series in 1995.
The Phantom was Moonstone Books best selling tittle at the time, with in-excess of 90 comics/graphic novels published, across 14 odd individual series. Their Phantom publications are printed on gloss color pages.
The Phantom postcards are printed in color measuring 9.52cm x 15.24cm. The images found on the front of the postcards were published as comic book cover illustrations by Moonstone Books, one by Joe Prado (seen below left) and the second by Paul Guinan (seen below right). The 18 postcard set sold for $8.50US.
The postcard set was also released in an uncut sheet format measuring 50.8cm x 66.04cm, which can be seen below.
The full set of 18 postcards consisted of the following comic book characters and their respective artists, Belle Starr (David Micheak Beck), Werewolf (Eddy Newell), Mysterious Traveler (Dennis Calero), The Phantom (Joe Prado), Moonstone Monsters: Mummy (Ron Frenz/Pat Oliffee), Kolchak (Ken Meyer Jr.), Sherlock Holmes (Tim Seelig), Kolchak (Monte Moore), Cisco Kid (Jerry DeCaire), Cyclone Bill, (Dan Dougherty), Mummy (Kalman), Vampire (Eddy Newell), Revisionary (EricJ), The Phantom (Paul Guinan), Buckaroo Banzai (Matt Haley), Vampiress (Dennis CAlero), Mr Keen (Lee Ferguson), Boston Blackie (Dave Dorman).
Thank you Howard Gesbeck for assisting with images and information.
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