PHANTOM 2040
This four-issue, 1995 Marvel title marked the first significant work in comics for Ditko in
two years. Ditko had done work on the classic 1936 hero, THE PHANTOM, back in 1970 for
Charlton, but here was his take on the futuristic version (the son of The Phantom, Kit Walker).
Ditko's hero fought the tyrannical Rebecca Madison, head of the most powerful corporation
in the world, Maximum, Inc. Bill Reinhold re-joined Ditko on the art with Peter Quinones
providing the writing. Issue #1 (the final page of which is presented here) featured a two-page,
center-fold pin-up by Ditko and John Romita Sr. This comic actually had an accompanying animated
TV series.
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