The 21st Phantom

Kit Walker redirects here, for the son of the 21st Phantom, see: Kit and Heloise.

The 21st Phantom is the current Phantom and the main character of the Phantom comic strip. He has been he main character of the strip since its creation in 1936, and – like most comic heroes – has not aged very much since then.

Fictional Character Biography

The twenty-first Phantom's birth name is Kit Walker (it was the tradition of the Phantom's for the eldest boy, who would be Phantom, to be named Kit). Kit was born in the Skull Cave, and spent his first years in the jungle in Bangalla. His mother, Maude Thorne McPatrick, came from Mississippi in the United States, where Walker came to study when he was twelve years old, living with his aunt Lucy and uncle Jasper in the town of Clarksville.

Here he met his wife-to-be, Diana Palmer. Kit was an extremely talented sportsman, and was predicted to become the world champion of many different events (even knocking out the world heavyweight boxing champion in a sparring match when the champion visited Clarksville). Despite being able to choose practically any career he wanted, Kit faithfully returned to Bengalla to take over the role of the Phantom when he received word that his father was dying from a knife-wound.

One of Kit's first missions as the Phantom was to find his father's killer, Rama Singh, who had betrayed and murdered the 20th Phantom by stabbing him in the back, stealing his special gunbelt in the process. The Phantom eventually found him and reclaimed the belt at the island of Gullique, but before he could avenge his father and bring Rama to jail, Rama managed to blow up his lair, killing himself and his henchmen in the process.

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