Published by Casa Editrice G. Nerbini (founded in 1897 by Giuseppe Nerbini) in Florence, Italy on the 15th of May 1937, this comic book series was provided as a supplement in L’Avventuroso, and is one of the first comic books released to solely feature the Phantom.

The series ran for 12 editions containing approximately 40 full color pages in landscape format measuring 31.5cm x 22.6cm. The series would set the red color that the Phantom appears in throughout Europe, with many believing that this is due to the publisher not knowing what color the Phantoms costume was designed to be, hence an assumption was made.

Translating to ‘The Masked Man’, L’ Uomo Mascherato is the prominent heading on edition number 1 with a cover price of 2 lire. Part 1 of the Lee Falk story illustrated by Ray Moore, ‘The Singh Brotherhood’ is published within . The front and back cover can be seen below.

Part 2 of the Lee Falk and Ray Moore classic ‘The Singh Brotherhood’ story is published in edition number 2. The front and back cover can be seen below.

The front covers of all 12 editions can be seen below.

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L’Avventuroso

In issue 101 of L’Avventuroso (translated to ‘The Adventurous’), dated 13th of September 1936, Mario Nerbini triumphantly announces to readers of purchasing the rights to publish the Phantom in Italy, made only 209 days after the release of the Phantom comic strip in newspapers in the United States.

The below editions of L’Avventuroso were published in full color on a weekly basis containing 8 pages and measure 32cm x 43.5cm. The L’Avventuroso publication continued publishing Phantom comic strip stories until edition number 388 in 1942. As can be seen below, on the back cover, ‘L’Uomo Mascherato’ makes his first appearance in Italy.

Issue #101

Issue #102

Issue #103

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The L’Avventuroso series contains a total of 450 edition, published in Italy from the 14th of October 1934 thru till the 16th of May 1943. Editions number 1 thru till 439 were published by Nerbini, then by Mondadori from edition number 400 thru till 450.

A variety of comic book characters appear throughout the series, including Mandrake the Magician, Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, Mickey Mouse, Secret Agent X9, Terry and the Pirates, Lone Ranger and many more.

The Phantom appears in the series from edition number 101 to 221, then from 333 to 376, then from 271 to 332, then finally from 378 to 388.

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