Originally published April 9, 1999, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1325
Lee Falk never told me to my face how much he disliked my work on The Phantom, and for that I will always be grateful.
My association with the character, and my relatively brief tenure of working with Mr. Falk, began towards the end of my “day job” at Marvel Comics. I’d reached a point where it seemed as if becoming a full-time writer actually seemed an option. But I was aware of the adage about putting all of one’s eggs into one basket. In other words, I wasn’t sanguine about the concept of counting on Marvel as my sole source of comic book income. I figured, what if, y’know, a decade down the road, they get bored with me? Could happen.
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