El Fantasma (Edmal / Impacto)

El Fantasma (also titled La Sombra, Impacto con El Fantasma, and El Espectro) was a series of Phantom comics published by Editorial Edmal and Editorial Impacto in Argentina.

History

The series began publishing Phantom stories in 1958. The title was originally La Sombra (the name previously used in the Tit-Bits series). From issue #19, the title changed to El Fantasma, but the name La Sombra was kept in brackets. From issue #20, the title was only El Fantasma which continued to issue #66. After that, publication is contiuned by Edmal's successor – Editorial Impacto. Issues #93 – #97 were titled Impacto con El Fantasma. From issue #98, the title changed to El Espectro and Phantom stories continued until issue #108, but without the Phantom appearing on covers. El Espectro continued publishing after that, but later there were no more Phantom stories in every issues, as it had been sometimes replaced with "Mandrake the Magician". Number of pages were increased to 100 or 164 and these issues contained previously published stories in this series.

All issues have 36 pages, printed in black and white. The stories were newspaper strip stories. The covers were illustrated by Argentine artists, for example Hugo D'Adderio, José Clemen, Julio Alvarez, Manuel Prendes, Ascanio, David Mangiarotti, José Luís García Lopez, Trento Fronza and a few unknown artists.

Some issues were price-marked for distribution in Uruguay and Paraguay as well.

Issue overview

Regular series

1958	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1959	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
1960	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
1961	33	34	35	36	37	38	39
1962	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48
1963	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
1964	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71
1965	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80	81	82	83
1966	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95
1967	96	97	98	99	100	101	102	103	104
1968	105	106	107	108
1969	109	110	111	112	113	114

Annuals

• Anuario de El Fantasma con un Almanaque 1966
• Anuario de El Fantasma (1967)