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词条 The Adventures of Patsy
释义

  1. Publication history

  2. Characters and story

     The Phantom Magician 

  3. References

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|title = The Adventures of Patsy
|image = Advenpatsy430118.jpg
|caption = The Adventures of Patsy (January 18, 1943) art by George Storm.
|author = Mel Graff (1935–1940)
Charles Raab
George Storm
Richard Hall
| current = Bill Dyer
|website =
|status = Concluded daily & Sunday strip
|syndicate =AP Newsfeatures
|first = 1935
|last = 1954
|altnames = Patsy in Hollywood
Patsy
|genre = Fantasy
|publisher =
|followed by =
}}

The Adventures of Patsy was an American newspaper comic strip which ran from 1935 to 1954. Created by {{ill|Mel Graff|fr}}, it was syndicated by AP Newsfeatures. The Phantom Magician, an early supporting character in the strip, is regarded by some comics historians as among the first superheroes of comics.

Publication history

{{ill|Mel Graff|fr}} departed in May 1940 to take over Secret Agent X-9.[1] In the early 1940s a Sunday strip, Patsy in Hollywood, was launched,{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} and the titles of both the Sunday and the daily were eventually shortened to just Patsy.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} After a succession of artists and writers, including Charles Raab, George Storm, Richard Hall and Bill Dyer, the strip came to a conclusion in 1954.[1]

Characters and story

The strip originated as a fantasy. The story began with five-year-old Patsy carried away in a kite to the magical kingdom of Ods Bodkins. (This setting is unrelated to Odd Bodkins, a later comic strip launched in 1964 by cartoonist Dan O'Neill.) During her fanciful journey, Patsy was accompanied and often rescued by the masked Phantom Magician. When they returned to Earth, the Phantom Magician doffed his duds for conventional clothing and assumed the identity of Phil Cardigan, Patsy's uncle, in December 1936. With stories situated in Hollywood, Uncle Phil worked as a screenwriter and Patsy was a young movie actress for producer J. P. Panberg. After Phil was eventually written out of the strip, Patsy's new sidekick was Hollywood agent Skidd Higgins.

The Phantom Magician

An early supporting character, the swashbuckling Phantom Magician, introduced a fantasy element. Some comics historians regard this character and Lee Falk's Mandrake the Magician as among the first superheroes of comics. Don Markstein writes, "Depending on how you define the term, Patsy's recurring rescuer, The Phantom Magician, may have been the first superhero in comics... Some people say Mandrake the Magician, who started in 1934, was comics' first superhero."[1]

References

1. ^The Adventures of Patsy at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. [https://www.webcitation.org/66BxT6VRO Archived] from the original on March 15, 2012.
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