>Papua New Guinean hill tribesmen have long decorated their shields with images of The Phantom beliving that it will imbue them with the power of The Ghost Who Walks in battle

>>136738497 (OP)

They're probably right. Just look at how powerful Billy Zane is.

he got legit jacked for the role long before that became a thing

>>136738497 (OP)

Phantom on shields>>>>>Punisher skull on pick up truck

>1989

I'm way older than those shields



I want to give credit to Billy for not only shaving his head so the cowl fits better but for really getting into shape as the Phantom. Great to see a super-hero costume without built-in muscles!

yeah the 1996 costume has always demonstrated to me it is possible to make a comic-accurate Batman costume rather than molded rubber/armor

I really like these ones that combine The Phantom with tribal art

masks always look kinda weird in live action. I wonder if just "whiting" out the eyes would work (or just make it even more off putting)

>>136738497 (OP)

What's the best "Phantom" collection to read?

Lee Falk was the one who started whiting out eyes for superhero costumes

he explained he was inspired to do this by Roman marble statues that left the eyes bare without irises

movies trying to replicate this by making them lenses, like Nolans Dark Knight, haven't really worked imho

That film is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's good enough but I get annoyed with certain things like the magic in his ring. It should be ambiguous at best, even if it is made from the nails that hung Jesus Christ.

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more kino than any marvel

marvelsisters...not like this -ACK!

Next o Christopher Reeve I think this is the best a live action superhero's ever been. Confidant, suave, just enough mystique, comforting to kids and women, but intense around his enemies, and does it all in a very theatrical, stylish way that's clearly fiction and not ashamed of it.

I can see the costume being considered corny or dated with the weird tribal on spandex look, but Zane as Kit? Just perfect

the tribal design was added cause they didn't want it to simply be solid purple

sy barry's strip is considered the best but the collections are pricey



as for comic books, don newton stuff aged best

I don't mind it myself. It's just not quite classic and not quite modern, and tribal tats are easy to rip on because they're very late 90's/early 2000's

I get the logic, though. I rewatched the movie with my nephew a few weeks ago. and one thing he thought was weird was that the Phantom had such a place costume and just looked like a big purpleman, and that he needed a symbol on his chest or something.

I think the intention in the original newspaper strip was for it to be grey but just like the first hulk issue there were problems printing grey so Falk switched to purple

The Romans also painted or otherwise applied realistic eyes on their statues, probably to avoid them looking creepy, but admittedly that wasn't something widely known until relatively recently.

I think a lens is okay when it's clear that it's part of the mask and not a substitute for the eye, but it really depends on the design. There's also the fact that in comics the mask often animates to permit faces to still be expressive, so if eyes are lost it becomes that much harder to approximate.

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