A Family Legacy

I swear to devote my life to the destruction of piracy, greed, and cruelty, in all their forms, and my sons and their sons, shall follow me.

The Oath of the Skull

1st Phantom

  • Born: 1516
  • Died: 1566
  • Age: 50
  • Year Oath Taken: 1536
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 30
  • Wife: Marabella Columbus
  • Year Married: 1546
  • Special Events:
    • 1536 – Calls himself “The Avenger”.
    • 1537 – Is called “The Phantom”.
    • 1541 – Receives “The Skull Ring”.
    • 1550 – Meets the Bandar Tribe.
    • 1550 – Gets the idea of Identity & Costume from ‘native idol’.

2nd Phantom

  • Born: 1548
  • Died: 1604
  • Age: 56
  • Year Oath Taken: 1566
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 38
  • Wife: Ann
  • Year Married: 1585
  • Special Events:
    • 1587 – Visits “Walkers Table”.
    • 1587 – Calls himself “The Phantom” & “The Ghost Who Walks”.

3rd Phantom

  • Born: 1586
  • Died: 1625
  • Age: 39
  • Year Oath Taken: 1604
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 21
  • Wife: Rosamunda Shakespear, then Pura (daughter of a Maharaja)
  • Year Married: 1603, then 1610
  • Special Events:
    • 1604 – Played Juliet in original Shakespeare at Globe Theater.
    • 1617 – Is called “The Man Who Cannot Die”.

4th Phantom

  • Born: 1604
  • Died: 1646
  • Age: 42
  • Year Oath Taken: 1625
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 21
  • Wife: Unknown
  • Year Married: 1625
  • Special Events:
    • Receives “Diamond Cup of Alexander”.

5th Phantom

  • Born: 1626
  • Died: 1662
  • Age: 36
  • Year Oath Taken: 1646
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 16
  • Wife: Unknown
  • Year Married: 1646
  • Special Events:
    • 1650 – First to fight the Thuggees.

6th Phantom

  • Born: 1646
  • Died: 1682
  • Age: 36
  • Year Oath Taken: 1662
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 20
  • Wife: Queen Natale of Navarra
  • Year Married: 1664
  • Special Events:
    • 1664 – Founded “The Jungle Patrol”.

7th Phantom

  • Born: 1665
  • Died: 1700
  • Age: 35
  • Year Oath Taken: 1682
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 18
  • Wife: Heloise of Koquania (“The Hanta Witch”)
  • Year Married: 1682
  • Special Events:
    • Bequeathed the Golden Beach of Keela-Wee.
    • Commissioned Michaelangelo to carve Phantom Head Peak.
    • Meets the Little People.

8th Phantom

  • Born: 1682
  • Died: 1717
  • Age: 35
  • Year Oath Taken: 1700
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 17
  • Wife: Lady Ingrid of Holstein
  • Year Married: 1700
  • Special Events:
    • The tallest Phantom.
    • Fought demons of Kognia & destroyed witches’ castle.
    • Built secret path through Great Swamp.
    • Died of a snake bite.

9th Phantom

  • Born: 1700
  • Died: 1735
  • Age: 35
  • Year Oath Taken: 1717
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 18
  • Wife: Flame Stanbury
  • Year Married: 1717
  • Special Events:
    • Described by Old Man Mozz as the strongest and shortest Phantom.
    • Destroyed Zaal, idol of human sacrifice in Eastern Dark.

10th Phantom

  • Born: 1717
  • Died: 1758
  • Age: 41
  • Year Oath Taken: 1735
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 22
  • Wife: Marianne
  • Year Married: 1737
  • Special Events:

11th Phantom

  • Born: 1738
  • Died: 1775
  • Age: 37
  • Year Oath Taken: 1757
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 18
  • Wife: Renata de Mascarelli
  • Year Married: 1757
  • Special Events:

12th Phantom

  • Born: 1758
  • Died: 1793
  • Age: 35
  • Year Oath Taken: 1775
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 18
  • Wife: Marion Trelawny
  • Year Married: 1775
  • Special Events:

13th Phantom

  • Born: 1775
  • Died: 1812
  • Age: 37
  • Year Oath Taken: 1793
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 19
  • Wife: Vhatta Khan
  • Year Married: 1973
  • Special Events:
    • Swordsman educated in America.
    • Fought in war of 1812.

14th Phantom

  • Born: 1793
  • Died: 1831
  • Age: 38
  • Year Oath Taken: 1812
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 19
  • Wife: Marie Claire, then Jeanette Lafitte
  • Year Married: 1812, then 1818
  • Special Events:
    • Ended slave trade of the Eastern Dark.

15th Phantom

  • Born: 1812
  • Died: 1848
  • Age: 36
  • Year Oath Taken: 1831
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 17
  • Wife: Juliette Adams
  • Year Married: 1831
  • Special Events:

16th Phantom

  • Born: 1831
  • Died: 1869
  • Age: 38
  • Year Oath Taken: 1848
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 21
  • Wife: Asta Jensen, then Annie Morgan
  • Year Married: 1849, then 1951
  • Special Events:

17th Phantom

  • Born: 1852
  • Died: 1889
  • Age: 37
  • Year Oath Taken: 1869
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 20
  • Wife: Mary
  • Year Married: 1871
  • Special Events:
    • Educated in Rome.

18th Phantom

  • Born: 1871
  • Died: 1913
  • Age: 42
  • Year Oath Taken: 1889
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 24
  • Wife: Lara Collins
  • Year Married: 1888
  • Special Events:

19th Phantom

  • Born: 1869
  • Died: 1950
  • Age: 81
  • Year Oath Taken: 1913
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 37
  • Wife: Jane Carey
  • Year Married: 1930
  • Special Events:
    • The Strongest Phantom.
    • Meets the Rope People.
    • Banned guns from Jungle.

20th Phantom

  • Born: 1933
  • Died: 1980
  • Age: 47
  • Year Oath Taken: 1950
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: 50
  • Wife: Maud Thorn McPatrick
  • Year Married: 1951
  • Special Events:
    • Killed (stabbed) in battle with Singh river pirates.
    • Dr. Axel’s Jungle Hospital under the protection of the Good Mark.
    • Dr. Axel delivers the 21st Phantom (baby).

21st Phantom

  • Born: 1960
  • Died: Current Phantom
  • Age:
  • Year Oath Taken: 1980
  • Years Spent as The Phantom: Ongoing
  • Wife: Diana Palmer
  • Year Married: 1988
  • Special Events:
    • Educated in America.

Please note, the above information does vary from story-to-story, depending on the writer, artist and publisher.