PHANTOM LADY #17 — PICTO REPRINT (c. 1948)
From the Picto Reprint Line: Crime, Glamour & Golden Age Danger
A crown jewel of postwar Fox Features — Phantom Lady #17 is Matt Baker at full command of the page. Equal parts crime thriller, pulp melodrama, and high-gloss danger, this issue captures the moment when Golden Age comics leaned harder, darker, and sharper into adult crime storytelling.
Fronted by Baker’s iconic cover — Phantom Lady poised with cool confidence, danger closing in from all sides — this is Fox crime at its most seductive and volatile. The kind of book that once turned newsstands into minefields, all with a new re-colored Picto exclusive cover.
Three hard-edged Phantom Lady stories drawn by Matt Baker, each steeped in postwar paranoia, rackets, and moral brinkmanship:
Stories Include:
• The Soda Mint Killer! — Phantom Lady takes on a protection racket that turns lethal when a victim refuses to pay
• The Stinging Whip! — A racetrack crime story with sabotage, murder, and Sandra stepping into the saddle herself
• Marks of a Killer! — Illustrated text crime feature
• Evelyn Ellis, Queen of Gangsters — A pulp crime portrait penciled by Rudy Palais
Every page crackles with Baker’s unmistakable elegance — fluid anatomy, cinematic pacing, and a visual confidence few artists of the era could match.
• Limited to 100 copies
• Hand-numbered
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity
• Clean, unmarked interiors
• Faithful panel-by-panel restoration
• 36 pages, full color
A defining Phantom Lady issue — restored, not sanitized.
Pure Fox Features crime: stylish, dangerous, and unapologetically of its time.
PHANTOM LADY #17 — PICTO REPRINT (c. 1948)
From the Picto Reprint Line: Crime, Glamour & Golden Age Danger
A crown jewel of postwar Fox Features — Phantom Lady #17 is Matt Baker at full command of the page. Equal parts crime thriller, pulp melodrama, and high-gloss danger, this issue captures the moment when Golden Age comics leaned harder, darker, and sharper into adult crime storytelling.
Fronted by Baker’s iconic cover — Phantom Lady poised with cool confidence, danger closing in from all sides — this is Fox crime at its most seductive and volatile. The kind of book that once turned newsstands into minefields, all with a new re-colored Picto exclusive cover.
Three hard-edged Phantom Lady stories drawn by Matt Baker, each steeped in postwar paranoia, rackets, and moral brinkmanship:
Stories Include:
• The Soda Mint Killer! — Phantom Lady takes on a protection racket that turns lethal when a victim refuses to pay
• The Stinging Whip! — A racetrack crime story with sabotage, murder, and Sandra stepping into the saddle herself
• Marks of a Killer! — Illustrated text crime feature
• Evelyn Ellis, Queen of Gangsters — A pulp crime portrait penciled by Rudy Palais
Every page crackles with Baker’s unmistakable elegance — fluid anatomy, cinematic pacing, and a visual confidence few artists of the era could match.
• Limited to 100 copies
• Hand-numbered
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity
• Clean, unmarked interiors
• Faithful panel-by-panel restoration
• 36 pages, full color
A defining Phantom Lady issue — restored, not sanitized.
Pure Fox Features crime: stylish, dangerous, and unapologetically of its time.
