The Phantom Chronicles
| The Phantom Chronicles | |
 Cover artist: Doug Klauba | |
| Country/language: |  USA / English
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| Format: | 16 × 23.5 cm |
| Pages: | 256 pgs, b/w |
| Publishing date: | 2007 (sc and hc) December, 2009 (ltd ed hc) |
| Editor: | Joe Gentile and Lori Gentile |
| Publishing company: | Moonstone Books |
| Preceded by: | N/A |
| Followed by: | The Phantom Chronicles #2 |
| ISBN 1-933076-21-6 (softcover) ISBN 1-933076-22-4 (hardcover) ISBN 1-933076-22-4 (ltd ed hardcover) | |
The Phantom Chronicles is a collection of prose stories featuring The Phantom. It was published in 2007 by Moonstone Books and is the first Phantom book of its kind published in the United States. Each of the seventeen prose stories is preceded by an illustration by Rubén Procopio. The book also includes an introduction by Lee Falk's daughter, Valerie Falk.
Variants
The book was released in several editions:
- softcover
- hardcover, of which 400 individually numbered copies were signed by cover artist Doug Klauba, and included a signed Artist's Annex by Rubén Procopio
- hardcover, limited edition of 400 copies with a signed and numbered tip sheet
Contents
Phantom stories
- "White Knight" by Mike Bullock
- "The Ghost Who Dies" by Clay Griffith and Susan Griffith
- "Debt of Honor" by C.J. Henderson
- "The Fastest Animal" by Ron Fortier
- "Truth or Consequences" by Jim Alexander
- "Stranger from Walker's Table" by Will Murray
- "The Servants of Set" by Michael Oliveri
- "Here, There, Everywhere" by Nancy Kilpatrick
- "Bad Medicine" by Mike Bullock & Ed Rhoades
- "House of Ghosts" by David Bishop
- "The Promise" by Grant Sauvé
- "Not That Kind of Girl" by Trina Robbins
- "Lessons Learned" by Richard Dean Starr
- "Reflection of the Ghost" by Dan Wickline
- "A Ghost Without Yesterday" by David Michelinie
- "The Hungry Swamp" by Martin Powell
- "The Ghosts Who Walk" by Craig Shaw Gardner
Artist's Annex
| The Phantom Chronicles Artist's Annex | |
 Cover artist: Rubén Procopio  Cover artist: Rubén Procopio | |
| Country/language: | USA / English
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| Format: | 16 × 23.5 cm |
| Pages: | 32 pgs, b/w |
| Publishing date: | 2007 |
| Editor: | Jeanne Schanberger |
| Publishing company: | Moonstone Books & Masked Avenger Studios |
| Preceded by: | none |
| Followed by: | none |
400 copies of the regular hardcover edition also included a signed and numbered Artist's Annex detailing illustrator Rubén Procopio's work on the book. The Annex contains sketches and notes from Procopio, and is available in two cover versions. The limited version of the Artist's Annex was made for the San Diego Comic Con and Wizard World Chicago and has a black and purple background. There are only 100 numbered and unsigned copies of this version.