The Menomonee Falls Gazette

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History

Menomonee Falls Gazette was a weekly tabloid published by Street Entreprises that reprinted newspaper comic strips from USA and UK. The first issue was released in December 1971, and the final issue on March 3, 1978. All together, there were 232 issues (the last issue numbered #234 by mistake). The last three issues were in a smaller format.

The Phantom appeared from the first issue to issue #223 (June, 1976). Two strips from the 104th Phantom Sunday story "The Wedding of the Phantom" were printed in issue #231 (December, 1977) announcing André LeBlanc becoming assistant/penciller for Sy Barry on The Phantom.

Several classical comics from various comic syndicates were published (Mandrake the Magician amongst them).

The tabloid was printed in big size (28.5 × 44.5 cm) and was folded in half. Six daily strips of each comic were reprinted on one page. Usually they were adventure and soap-opera strips. Some Sunday pages were published on the centrefold pages but not for The Phantom. Its sister publication, Menomonee Falls Guardian, published humorous strips.

Phantom covers

The Phantom was featured on the front cover of issues #22, 40, 60, 84, 98, 100 (with other comic heroes), 105 (with other comic heroes), 161, 196 and 223. All covers were black and white, except for issue #100 (which also received an extra-size cover in color) and for issue #52 (sepia).

Phantom stories

Newspaper stories

Issue Title Writer Artist Note
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
"The Lost City of Pheenix" Falk Barry
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
"The Witchman" Falk Barry
19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
"The Tanker-Jackers" Falk Barry
33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45
"The Keeper of the Peace" Falk Barry
46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
"The Giant of Kaluga" Falk Barry
61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74
"The Trial of Patrolman Zokko" Falk Barry
75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89
"The Things" Falk Barry
90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103
"Vandal-Looters" Falk Barry
104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112,
113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121
"The Pampered Princess" Falk Barry
122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132,
133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143
"The Curse of the Sacred Image" Falk Barry
144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152,
153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160
"The Normal Life" Falk Barry
161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168,
169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176
"The Cavelands" Falk Barry
177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187,
188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197
"T" Falk Barry
198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208
"Hzzz" Falk Barry
209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215,
216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222
"Star of Bangalla" Falk Barry
223
"Mystery of Kula-Ku" Falk Barry Part 1 only