Sy Barry

Seymour "Sy" Barry

Biographical information
Born:	March 12, 1928
Died:	N/A
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Artist, Cover artist
Website:	http://sybarry.com/

Seymour "Sy" Barry (born March 12, 1928), is an American comic strip artist, best known for his work on "The Phantom" comic strip, which he drew for over 30 years.

Biography

Career

In junior high school a teacher encouraged him to try out for admission to the renowned School of Industrial Art in New York City. Among thousands of candidates, Sy was one of 100 who was accepted to the school in 1943.

After he completed his studies Sy got to work as an assistant for his older brother, Dan Barry. Dan was responsible for the "Flash Gordon" comic strip, and Sy worked on the strip as an inker. After having this job for a while, he was even allowed to pencil the strips from time to time, and he often did uncredited stand-in jobs for Dan.

The Phantom

Having worked on both "Tarzan" and "Flash Gordon", he went on to draw the world's most successful adventure comic strip, "The Phantom" for 33 years from 1962 to 1994, succeeding Ray Moore and Wilson McCoy. Sy is credited for giving the Phantom his modern look, which has not changed since he took over the strip. Creator Lee Falk liked his drawing style so much that he quickly decided to modernize the entire comic strip, giving Bangalla a black President (Lamanda Luaga) and the Jungle Patrol a black colonel (Worubu).

Sy frequently used pencil artists on the strip, working primarily as an inker (although he often drew entire stories when time permitted). Pencilers included George Olesen, Joe Giella, Bob Forgione, André LeBlanc, Rich Buckler and Carmine Infantino.

At the height of their popularity, Lee Falk and Sy Barry's Phantom stories were read by over a 100 million people every day, in newspapers as well as comic books. His stories are still irregularly published in countries such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Australia, in comic books or hardcover collections.

Personal life

Tired with the stressing deadlines he constantly had to face, Barry retired from the newspaper strip in 1994. He now uses most of his time to develop his painting skills, and likes to do landscape painting. He has also painted the Phantom several times, and some of his sketches have been used as covers for Phantom comics around the world.

He currently resides in Long Island with his wife Simmy. The couple have three children together.

Among his recent appearances and meeting with fans, was his trip to Scandinavia in 2001, where he met Norwegian and Swedish fans at several comic book conventions, and an appearance at the 2005 San Diego Comic Con.

Phantom work by Sy Barry

Stories

Daily stories

#	Title	Writer	Artist	Start	End
1	"The Slave Market of Mucar"	Falk	Barry	21 Aug 1961	10 Feb 1962
2	"The Epidemic"	Falk	Barry	12 Feb 1962	16 Jun 1962
3	"The Wharf Rats"	Falk	Barry	18 Jun 1962	13 Oct 1962
4	"The Mysterious Ambassador"	Falk	Barry	15 Oct 1962	1 Jun 1963
5	"The Mystery of the Island of Dogs"	Falk	Barry	3 Jun 1963	14 Dec 1963
6	"The Drummer of Timpenni"	Falk	Barry	16 Dec 1963	21 Mar 1964
7	"The Reef"	Falk	Barry	23 Mar 1964	27 Jun 1964
8	"The Adventures of Lucy Cary"	Falk	Barry	29 Jun 1964	12 Dec 1964
9	"The Bad Ones"	Falk	Barry	14 Dec 1964	17 Apr 1965
10	"The Hanta Witch"	Falk	Barry	19 Apr 1965	31 Jul 1965
11	"Prince Hali and the White Stallion"	Falk	Barry	2 Aug 1965	1 Jan 1966
12	"Bullets' Town"	Falk	Barry	3 Jan 1966	28 May 1966
13	"The Killer"	Falk	Barry	30 May 1966	10 Sep 1966
14	"The Sea God"	Falk	Barry	12 Sep 1966	24 Dec 1966
15	"The Satchel"	Falk	Barry	26 Dec 1966	18 Mar 1967
16	"The Crime School"	Falk	Barry	20 Mar 1967	24 Jun 1967
17	"Deadman's Point"	Falk	Barry	26 Jun 1967	30 Sep 1967
18	"The Rogue Elephant"	Falk	Barry	2 Oct 1967	20 Jan 1968
19	"Jungle Olympics"	Falk	Barry	22 Jan 1968	4 May 1968
20	"The Frame-Up"	Falk	Barry	6 May 1968	6 Jul 1968
21	"The Hydra"	Falk	Barry	8 Jul 1968	12 Oct 1968
22	"The Art Thieves"	Falk	Barry	14 Oct 1968	8 Feb 1969
23	"The Masked Ball"	Falk	Barry	10 Feb 1969	22 Mar 1969
24	"The Jungle Home"	Falk	Barry	24 Mar 1969	21 Jun 1969
25	"Rex, the Missing Heir"	Falk	Barry	23 Jun 1969	4 Oct 1969
26	"The Gladiator"	Falk	Barry	6 Oct 1969	17 Jan 1970
27	"The Missing Daddy"	Falk	Barry	19 Jan 1970	18 Apr 1970
28	"Luaga's Undercover Tour"	Falk	Barry	20 Apr 1970	25 Jul 1970
29	"The Mission"	Falk	Barry	27 Jul 1970	5 Dec 1970
30	"Yes"	Falk	Barry	7 Dec 1970	13 Feb 1971
31	"The Fence"	Falk	Barry	15 Feb 1971	8 May 1971
32	"The Mysterious Passenger"	Falk	Barry	10 May 1971	24 Jul 1971
33	"The Vultures"	Falk	Barry	26 Jul 1971	6 Nov 1971
34	"The Lost City of Pheenix"	Falk	Barry	8 Nov 1971	8 Jan 1972
35	"The Witchman"	Falk	Barry	10 Jan 1972	8 Apr 1972
36	"The Tanker-Jackers"	Falk	Barry	10 Apr 1972	15 Jul 1972
37	"The Keeper of the Peace"	Falk	Barry	17 Jul 1972	14 Oct 1972
38	"The Giant of Kaluga"	Falk	Barry	16 Oct 1972	27 Jan 1973
39	"The Trial of Patrolman Zokko"	Falk	Barry	29 Jan 1973	5 May 1973
40	"The Things"	Falk	Barry	7 May 1973	18 Aug 1973
41	"Vandal-Looters"	Falk	Barry	20 Aug 1973	24 Nov 1973
42	"The Pampered Princess"	Falk	Barry	26 Nov 1973	30 Mar 1974
43	"The Curse of the Sacred Image"	Falk	Barry	1 Apr 1974	24 Aug 1974
44	"The Normal Life"	Falk	Barry	26 Aug 1974	28 Dec 1974
45	"The Cavelands"	Falk	Barry	30 Dec 1974	19 Apr 1975
46	"T"	Falk	Barry	21 Apr 1975	13 Sep 1975
47	"Hzzz"	Falk	Barry	15 Sep 1975	29 Nov 1975
48	"Star of Bangalla"	Falk	Barry	1 Dec 1975	6 Mar 1976
49	"Mystery of Kula-Ku"	Falk	Barry	8 Mar 1976	31 Jul 1976
50	"S.S. Blitz"	Falk	Barry	2 Aug 1976	30 Oct 1976
51	"Return of the Terrorists"	Falk	Barry	1 Nov 1976	19 Feb 1977
52	"The Proposal"	Falk	Barry	21 Feb 1977	2 Apr 1977
53	"Guardian of the Eastern Dark"	Falk	Barry	4 Apr 1977	13 Aug 1977
54	"The Tyrant of Tarakimo"	Falk	Barry	15 Aug 1977	29 Oct 1977
55	"Phantom Wedding"	Falk	Barry	31 Oct 1977	4 Feb 1978
56	"The Three Bandits"	Falk	Barry	6 Feb 1978	15 Apr 1978
57	"Return to Tarakimo"	Falk	Barry	17 Apr 1978	16 Sep 1978
58	"Jungle City"	Falk	Barry	18 Sep 1978	16 Dec 1978
59	"The Heirs"	Falk	Barry	18 Dec 1978	19 May 1979
60	"Jungle Gold"	Falk	Barry	21 May 1979	8 Sep 1979
61	"The Return of General Bababu"	Falk	Barry	10 Sep 1979	16 Feb 1980
62	"The Tree House"	Falk	Barry	18 Feb 1980	19 Jul 1980
63	"The Poachers"	Falk	Barry	21 Jul 1980	1 Nov 1980
64	"Gooroo's Jungle Muggers"	Falk	Barry	3 Nov 1980	4 Apr 1981
65	"The Hostages"	Falk	Barry	6 Apr 1981	4 Jul 1981
66	"The Phantom's Vacation"	Falk	Barry	6 Jul 1981	12 Sep 1981
67	"The Return of Gooroo's Mob"	Falk	Barry	14 Sep 1981	16 Jan 1982
68	"Tale of Rex"	Falk	Barry	18 Jan 1982	11 Sep 1982
69	"Queen Karola of Kula-Ku"	Falk	Barry	13 Sep 1982	12 Feb 1983
70	"Ughland"	Falk	Barry	14 Feb 1983	2 Jul 1983
71	"Visit to Baronkhan"	Falk	Barry	4 Jul 1983	26 Nov 1983
72	"Luck and Wealth"	Falk	Barry	28 Nov 1983	26 May 1984
73	"The Kimberly Diamonds"	Falk	Barry	28 May 1984	8 Sep 1984
74	"The Embassy Siege"	Falk	Barry	10 Sep 1984	22 Dec 1984
75	"The Presidents"	Falk	Barry	24 Dec 1984	1 Jun 1985
76	"Drug Busters"	Falk	Barry	3 Jun 1985	7 Sep 1985
77	"The Lake Lady"	Falk	Barry	9 Sep 1985	1 Mar 1986
78	"Ruler of Baronkhan"	Falk	Barry	3 Mar 1986	5 Jul 1986
79	"The Tarashima Terrorists"	Falk	Barry	7 Jul 1986	11 Apr 1987
80	"The Snake Goddess"	Falk	Barry	13 Apr 1987	12 Sep 1987
81	"Zabadabah"	Falk	Barry	14 Sep 1987	16 Jan 1988
82	"The Man-Thing"	Falk	Barry	18 Jan 1988	21 May 1988
83	"Great Raptor of Rhua"	Falk	Barry	23 May 1988	3 Sep 1988
84	"Chasamba"	Falk	Barry	5 Sep 1988	4 Feb 1989
85	"Rex: Prince of Baronkhan"	Falk	Barry	6 Feb 1989	5 Aug 1989
86	"Massacre at Walker's Table"	Falk	Barry	7 Aug 1989	11 Nov 1989
87	"The Death Threat"	Falk	Barry	13 Nov 1989	24 Mar 1990
88	"The Master of Eden"	Falk	Barry	26 Mar 1990	16 Jun 1990
89	"Attack of the Witchmen"	Falk	Barry	18 Jun 1990	13 Oct 1990
90	"The Valley of the Elephants"	Falk	Barry	15 Oct 1990	2 Feb 1991
91	"Zima, The Rogue Elephant"	Falk	Barry	4 Feb 1991	8 Jun 1991
92	"The Jungle Patrol v The Drug Cartel"	Falk	Barry	10 Jun 1991	2 Nov 1991
93	"King Bongong"	Falk	Barry	4 Nov 1991	1 Feb 1992
94	"Prince Rex and Princess Alicia"	Falk	Barry	3 Feb 1992	25 Apr 1992
95	"Blackie"	Falk	Barry	27 Apr 1992	18 Jul 1992
96	"The Attilan Mystery"	Falk	Barry	20 Jul 1992	6 Feb 1993
97	"The Moxley Awards"	Falk	Barry	8 Feb 1993	19 Jun 1993
98	"Nukes"	Falk	Barry	21 Jun 1993	13 Nov 1993
99	"Dinosaur"	Falk	Barry	15 Nov 1993	12 Feb 1994
100	"The Plotters"	Falk	Barry	14 Feb 1994	4 Jun 1994
101	"The Phantom Cowboy"	Falk	Barry, Olesen, Williams	6 Jun 1994	17 Dec 1994

Sunday stories

#	Title	Writer	Artist	Start	End
1	"Treasure of the Skull Cave"	Falk	Barry	20 May 1962	28 Oct 1962
2	"The Astronaut and the Pirates"	Falk	Barry	4 Nov 1962	12 May 1963
3	"Old Baldy"	Falk	Barry	19 May 1963	15 Dec 1963
4	"The Giant Bird of Gandor"	Falk	Barry	22 Dec 1963	28 Jun 1964
5	"The Founding of the Jungle Patrol"	Falk	Barry	5 Jul 1964	24 Jan 1965
6	"The Great Web of Spidera"	Falk	Barry	31 Jan 1965	27 Jun 1965
7	"Mystery of Wamba Falls Inn"	Falk	Barry	4 Jul 1965	24 Oct 1965
8	"The Veiled Lady"	Falk	Barry	31 Oct 1965	8 May 1966
9	"Rex King"	Falk	Barry	15 May 1966	11 Dec 1966
10	"The Golden Sands of Keela-Wee"	Falk	Barry	18 Dec 1966	2 Apr 1967
11	"The Lions of Kukhan"	Falk	Barry	9 Apr 1967	6 Aug 1967
12	"The Super-Jet Gang"	Falk	Barry	13 Aug 1967	26 Nov 1967
13	"Strangers at Keela-Wee"	Falk	Barry	3 Dec 1967	24 Mar 1968
14	"The Little Ones"	Falk	Barry	31 Mar 1968	11 Aug 1968
15	"The Black Gold Pirates"	Falk	Barry	18 Aug 1968	29 Dec 1968
16	"Walker's Table"	Falk	Barry	5 Jan 1969	20 Apr 1969
17	"The Hijackers"	Falk	Barry	27 Apr 1969	3 Aug 1969
18	"The Missing Link"	Falk	Barry	10 Aug 1969	7 Dec 1969
19	"The Golden People"	Falk	Barry	14 Dec 1969	29 Mar 1970
20	"The Dolphins"	Falk	Barry	5 Apr 1970	14 Jun 1970
21	"The Beach"	Falk	Barry	21 Jun 1970	13 Sep 1970
22	"Alexander's Diamond Cup"	Falk	Barry	20 Sep 1970	7 Feb 1971
23	"The Tale of the Gooley-Gooley Witch"	Falk	Barry	14 Feb 1971	9 May 1971
24	"The Stolen Trophy"	Falk	Barry	16 May 1971	1 Aug 1971
25	"The Wig"	Falk	Barry	8 Aug 1971	31 Oct 1971
26	"Tale of the Good Mark"	Falk	Barry	7 Nov 1971	6 Feb 1972
27	"The Smugglers"	Falk	Barry	13 Feb 1972	14 May 1972
28	"The Massacre"	Falk	Barry	21 May 1972	27 Aug 1972
29	"The Bike Gang"	Falk	Barry	3 Sep 1972	5 Nov 1972
30	"The Hawk Master"	Falk	Barry	12 Nov 1972	11 Feb 1973
31	"The Sky Divers"	Falk	Barry	18 Feb 1973	27 May 1973
32	"Rex and the Little People"	Falk	Barry	3 Jun 1973	16 Sep 1973
33	"The Golden Wood"	Falk	Barry	23 Sep 1973	23 Dec 1973
34	"Phantom Treasure"	Falk	Barry	30 Dec 1973	9 Jun 1974
35	"Tale of Joomba"	Falk	Barry	16 Jun 1974	29 Dec 1974
36	"Little Girl"	Falk	Barry	5 Jan 1975	11 May 1975
37	"The First Phantom"	Falk	Barry	18 May 1975	10 Aug 1975
38	"The Golden Beach"	Falk	Barry	17 Aug 1975	21 Dec 1975
39	"The Blue Giant"	Falk	Barry	28 Dec 1975	11 Apr 1976
40	"Joonkar and the Slavers"	Falk	Barry	18 Apr 1976	29 Aug 1976
41	"The Stolen Ring"	Falk	Barry	5 Sep 1976	19 Dec 1976
42	"The Swamp Dragon"	Falk	Barry	26 Dec 1976	17 Apr 1977
43	"The Hunters"	Falk	Barry	24 Apr 1977	7 Aug 1977
44	"The Delta Pirates"	Falk	Barry	14 Aug 1977	23 Oct 1977
45	"The Wedding of the Phantom"	Falk	Barry	30 Oct 1977	5 Feb 1978
46	"The Three Bandits"	Falk	Barry	12 Feb 1978	16 Apr 1978
47	"What's Wrong with Hzz?"	Falk	Barry	16 Apr 1978	23 Jul 1978
48	"The Star of Bangalla"	Falk	Barry	30 Jul 1978	5 Nov 1978
49	"The Heirs"	Falk	Barry	12 Nov 1978	20 May 1979
50	"Jungle Olympics"	Falk	Barry	27 May 1979	2 Sep 1979
51	"The Name"	Falk	Barry	9 Sep 1979	9 Dec 1979
52	"The Vault of Missing Men"	Falk	Barry	16 Dec 1979	1 Jun 1980
53	"The Uninvited Visitors"	Falk	Barry	8 Jun 1980	16 Nov 1980
54	"Crook's Haven"	Falk	Barry	23 Nov 1980	24 May 1981
55	"Crazy Louie's Story"	Falk	Barry	31 May 1981	8 Nov 1981
56	"Kit and the Little People"	Falk	Barry	15 Nov 1981	11 Apr 1982
57	"The Terrorists"	Falk	Barry	18 Apr 1982	5 Sep 1982
58	"The Missing Link Family"	Falk	Barry	12 Sep 1982	16 Jan 1983
59	"Mysterious Karapura"	Falk	Barry	23 Jan 1983	31 Jul 1983
60	"The Eastern Dark"	Falk	Barry	7 Aug 1983	29 Jan 1984
61	"The Golden Beach of Keela-Wee"	Falk	Barry	5 Feb 1984	6 May 1984
62	"The Deadliest Animals in the Jungle"	Falk	Barry	13 May 1984	19 Aug 1984
63	"The Third Phantom"	Falk	Barry	26 Aug 1984	17 Feb 1985
64	"The Whispering Grove"	Falk	Barry	24 Feb 1985	9 Jun 1985
65	"The Forest Giants"	Falk	Barry	16 Jun 1985	5 Jan 1986
66	"Phantom Head Peak"	Falk	Barry	12 Jan 1986	27 Apr 1986
67	"Sunken Treasure"	Falk	Barry	4 May 1986	31 Aug 1986
68	"The Escaped Convicts"	Falk	Barry	7 Sep 1986	21 Dec 1986
69	"Queen Amaza's Mate"	Falk	Barry	28 Dec 1986	28 Jun 1987
70	"The Twins' 8th Birthday"	Falk	Barry	5 Jul 1987	27 Sep 1987
71	"The Irrondi and the Great Ones"	Falk	Barry	4 Oct 1987	10 Apr 1988
72	"The Bride of Xali"	Falk	Barry	17 Apr 1988	17 Jul 1988
73	"Exodus of the Little People"	Falk	Barry	24 Jul 1988	26 Feb 1989
74	"Death from the Sky"	Falk	Barry	5 Mar 1989	23 Jul 1989
75	"Captain Amazon - Pirate Queen"	Falk	Barry	30 Jul 1989	7 Jan 1990
76	"The Eastern Dark at Janorra"	Falk	Barry	14 Jan 1990	13 May 1990
77	"Return of the Thuggees"	Falk	Barry	20 May 1990	11 Aug 1991
78	"The Fourth Son"	Falk	Barry	18 Aug 1991	17 May 1992
79	"Tiger, Tiger"	Falk	Barry	24 May 1992	6 Dec 1992
80	"How The Phantom Saved The Earth"	Falk	Barry	13 Dec 1992	18 Jul 1993
81	"The Jungle Olympics"	Falk	Barry	25 Jul 1993	16 Jan 1994
82	"The Isle of Death"	Falk	Barry	23 Jan 1994	3 Jul 1994
83	"Phantom World"	Falk	Barry, Olesen, Doescher	10 Jul 1994	4 Dec 1994