I read a number of the Captain Future novel reprints from the 60s and 70s. Loved them. But he really reminds me of a future version of Doc Savage. Which isn't a bad thing since he was his own man but heavy Doc Savage tones. Makes me wonder how Hamilton would have done if he was asked to do a Doc Savage story or two.

Every human artist alive was inspired by an artist before them, I see no problem with allowing AI the same foundation.

That 1891 was the first sci-fi cosplay gathering

Wertham's the same as those from ACT who liked to play do gooder, thinking they know better than the studios.

Wow dont be so hard on yourself, your the one doing the work and inspiring the rest of us. Welcome back! Phantom Lady is a favorite of mine as well as Matt Baker's art. The book on Matt Baker you highlighted near the end of this (17:20) is a very good read and resource. i highly recommend it for those interested in the artist.

FYI- there are only 6 Thunderbolt stories. He is one of the "limited revenge" heroes. But only half have been reprinted of later, by Murania Press.

Not sure how I missed this posting when it was done. I have posted on several of Johnston McCulley's lesser known heroes on my pulp blog.

She reappeared in the Silver-age. She went from Earth 2 to the Earth where the Mr Hister's folks won WW2.

Thanks for the video the characters will be usefull in my fan made stories.

I appreciate that you chose to redo this. And it's good to see your work again

Outstanding video! Excellent research and presentation. Just a few tid bits I'd like to throw into the mix. Phantom Lady, along with the other Freedom Fighters, made their DC debut in 1973. In the annual Justice League / Justice Society team-up it was revealed that the Quality heroes lived on Earth-X where the Nazis had won World War II. In the 1980s Phantom Lady made a number of appearances in All Star Squadron - a title that featured nearly every Golden Age hero that DC had the rights to. And my introduction to Plastic Man was the wonderful DC Special #15 in 1971 which featured reprints of some of his original stories. DC must have thought they had the rights to the character by then.

A member of the Freedom Fighters. The sexiest super-heroine ever.

Another great video! Thank you for all the hard work!

I wonder if he inspired the creation of Doctor Mid-Nite?

Don't read this if you're easily triggered. Usually the stories about comics corrupting kids were bunk (in my opinion). However...if you look at the Phantom Lady she strongly resembles Bettie Page, in superheroine drag, at least the Fox/Ajax version. (Don't Google Bettie if you're easily shocked or offended). Um Bettie was an adult entertainment star. I don't think I'm wrong on this. You mentioned Dave Stevens, who did tributes to Phantom Lady. He's most famous for the Rocketeer, and hero's girlfriend was named Bettie. Ok she was Bettie Page and she was constantly getting kidnapped by the bad guys... maybe Phantom Lady wasn't moral majority material? But it was probably teenage boy approved😜

The comics code was such BS that knives were banned because the might be mistaken for Penises it's pretty bizarre

Would have been a hoot for actress Sandra Knight to play Sandra Knight! Kinda like actor Michael E. Knight( Tad Martin All My Children) to play the lead in Knight Rider, rather than The Hoff, though he did marry Hasselldork's castoff Catherine Hickland.

Figures about the hate to an independent woman and the portrayal thereof by those perverts. It's all about the control of women, and their pervert sons and grandsons are doing this today thru MAGA and their Project 2025 agenda.

Great video, very detailed. Good job.

As a young man in 60's through to mid 70's I loved these comics. I never missed a Sad Sack I adored Hot Stuff, Casper.

I’m glad you are back! I enjoyed your channel but you hadn’t uploaded any new videos for a long time I unsubscribed but because of this Video I subscribed back to this channel.

But what was the Number or compleat date of that Spicy Myst

Well done with the redo! Hard to not love Phantom lady

I can see one major issue with a Turok movie/show/etc. While there is more focus on indigenous cultures, the focus is either on specific tribes or modern day life for Native Americans. Turok is tricky because they don't really specify which tribe from where he's from. Plus as awesome as his fighting dinosaurs is, I don't think a lot of Native American creators would be interested in something that fantastical starring Native American characters. It would either focus on history and culture of specific tribes or modern day reservation life. Which Turok sadly isn't either.

Matt Baker died at 39? Wow, lucky guy.

Love the artwork of Phantom Lady...she really dazzles the reader! 🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️

Loved the redux. I always look forward to your videos.

Hey, you're back! Good video. Nice encapsulation of comics history. The quality/fox heroes are a lot of fun. I appreciate DC bringing back the Quality heroes, but they never had any idea what to do with them. The 70's Freedom Fighters series is fun, but past that, not much was done that was worth reading, besides their appearances in All Star Squadron. Love what Bill Black did with Phantom Lady...aheam, I mean the Bulleteer. Big Femforce fan.

She was how I learned to draw women.

That was interesting and a fun look at scary potential.

The whole "who owns Quality comics characters" is always interesting. Last I heard, DC only bought the characters and comic books that Quality was still publishing at the time Quality was going out of business. That is basically Doll Man, Plastic Man, Blackhawks, GI Combat and one or two romance titles. Later folks at DC may have thought they bought everything, but it seems that they didn't. But then again, be prepared for a lawsuit if you try to use the other characters from Quality. I still think it is clear as mud who owns what from the Quality line and what is in public domain.

Great video! A couple of very minor, nitpicky corrections, if I may: DC did not continue the Plastic Man title. It continued four of the Quality titles - Blackhawk, G.I. Combat, Robin Hood Tales, and Secret Hearts. General consensus, as I understand, it is that because Plastic Man was in reprints at that point, DC didn’t feel like trying to find a new creative team, but also didn’t want to just continue running Quality’s old material, or maybe couldn’t, legally. The other titles transferred more or less intact with their then-current creative teams, except for Secret Hearts, which, after a several-month’s hiatus, was retooled entirely as part of DC’s romance line. So, basically, DC bought the titles only, given they either had no continuing characters, or, in the case of Robin Hood, characters already in public domain. The exception, of course, was Blackhawk. We know from interviews Quality owner Busy Arnold gave late in his life that DC didn’t actually buy Blackhawk, but leased it from him on some kind of a royalty-on-sales basis. It wasn’t until much later that DC actually ponied up and bought the Blackhawk characters outright. Maybe. Stories have long circulated that Stephen Spielberg wanted to make a Blackhawk movie back in the late-1970s, but the deal never came off as Warner Bros had trouble proving clear ownership to his legal team. The rights issue was simply deemed too complicated to bother with. DC editor Julius Schwartz has said he green lit Elongated Man because he didn’t know DC owned Plastic Man. But as it turns out he was right, they didn’t. Over the years, into the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, a legend had grown up among DC staffers that it had purchased all of Quality. But that doesn’t appear to have been the case. They only bought the titles they bought. It’s not clear (to me at least) when DC did buy Plastic Man, but it may well have been after its 1960’s run on the character, even. Anyway, I told you all that so that I could tell you this - current scholarship is that DC never owned any of the Quality characters beyond Blackhawk and Plastic Man. Everything else had fallen into public domain as the actual owners, be it Arnold, or Iger, or their successors, failed to renew copyrights under the law as it existed at that time. DC published the Freedom Fighters only because it *thought* it owned the characters. And other publishers took DC at its word, in part because, as Black learned, DC could afford better lawyers. Anyway, skip forward to 2012 or so and DC finally, effectively admitted it didn’t own the Quality heroes. That’s why it put out mini series establishing all new versions of Phantom Lady, Doll Man, Human Bomb, and The Ray. Yes, the Phantom Lady and Doll Man in the mini series you mentioned are different characters. These series were basically put out for the sole purpose of establishing trademark to the character names. They didn’t do Black Condor because they had already re-invented him, while, as I understand it, Uncle Sam, even as a super-hero, is considered public domain. So, anyway, there ya go. That’s it. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Excellent job. Been looking at the covers for this book for years and years. Great job👍😃❤

They killed 2 absolutely changed 2 orbers to be nigh unrecognizable and basically forgot about the rest. I'd say no dc didn't do a good job.

Always happy to see a video of yours! Didn’t realize this was a redux.

Here's my things why are these charaecters in the public domain still if when someone wants to Wright these charaecters it's like take them off the public domain if there still ownd by DC Sorry fizzfop don't mean to be negative. Your channel is the best when it comes to golden age super heros and old comics.

There are not enough Blue Bulleteer stories.

... And I have all a the Fox PL's except for 14 with a cover I don't like, not Baker.

Welcome back, glad to see a new video . Hope you do some more redux videos on other characters.

That first 2-page story is bonkers. Cap picks up a child and swings him at 2 armed men to knock the guns from their hands! 😂

don't think I've really heard of this character before, now I am curious, I'll have to look into it

awesome show i am looking forward to the new fox show great work

Great legendary creators & characters can't be put in one video essay, nor be explained in short time! So of course, it's great for you to remaster & redux these previous brilliance, and now masterfully execute with passion & precision via reverence. It's always great to know more about the Legends from Golden Age! Keep up the aspiring spirit and hard work ethics!🙏

So, um, where can I, I mean my friend, find back issues of the Phantom Lady comics?

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Glad to see no generative AI in this video. Phantom lady is one of the all-time good girl greats.

Cool.

love your content man! 🙏

Great video. Love your channel.

Good video, though I think you under-explained the whole Silk Spectre/Phantom Lady/Nightshade thing. There were 2 Silk Spectres, a mother and a daughter. The first Silk Spectre was based on Phantom Lady. The SECOND was based on Nightshade. But the other thing is that Nightshade was either based on Phantom Lady, or else was one hell of a coincidence. Nightshade was published by Charlton, and Charlton got the rights to Blue Beetle, so clearly people at Charlton knew the Fox books. Phantom Lady had martial skills, and her darkness projector; Sandra Knight was the daughter of a senator, and the stories had a Washington backdrop. Nightshade had martial skills, and her darkness powers; Eve Eden was the daughter of a senator, and the stories had a Washington backdrop.