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Vitals

Billy Zane as Caledon “Cal” Hockley, pompous heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune

North Atlantic Ocean, April 1912

Background

Exactly 102 years today, the RMS Titanic saw land for the last time when it departed Queenstown, Ireland (now Cobh) at 1:30 PM (GMT) on April 11, 1912. The destination was New York City, but the ship foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean, taking with it more than 1,500 passengers and crew and leaving only a scattered 700 in the ship’s relatively few lifeboats.

Oh, you’ve heard of Titanic before? Okay, then, I doubt I need to say much more.

In 1997, James Cameron’s Titanic was released with a shitload of fanfare and awards just begging to be thrown at it. It won 11 mostly well-deserved Academy Awards and became the first film to earn over $1 billion worldwide, making Cameron both very rich and very arrogant. Evidently he forgot that the reason Titanic sank was majorly due to the hubris of its owners.

It’s disappointing to me that Cameron – who honestly managed to recreate the disaster as masterfully as anyone will – felt the need to include both a romantic centerpiece and a villain to the film. Nothing against Leo and Kate, both of whom I enjoy, but they weren’t needed to make this story an identifiable tragedy! If you watch A Night to Remember, the 1958 retelling of the tragedy, you’ll feel honest emotion for the plight of the 2,200 people who weren’t planning on having to abandon ship and watch more than half of their fellow travelers die. A Night to Remember doesn’t tell us who to be bad for; the characters’ anonymity makes every story relatable and brings the Titanic disaster home.

Cameron’s film, on the other hand, tells us who we should feel bad for. Naturally, there are the obligatory shots of doomed third class passengers, but they didn’t just have sex with Kate Winslet so why should we care, right?

According to Wikipedia

Fictional character from The Phantom comic strip

For other uses, see Phantom.

"Kit Walker" redirects here. For the American Horror Story character, see Kit Walker (American Horror Story).

Comics character

The Phantom is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional country of Bangalla (originally Bengali). The character was created by Lee Falk for the adventure comic stripThe Phantom, which debuted in newspapers on February 17, 1936.

The Phantom was later depicted in many forms of media, including television shows, films, comic books, and video games.

Publication history

Main article: The Phantom

Comic strip

Lee Falk's syndicated newspaper comic strip The Phantom premiered on February 17, 1936, with the story "The Singh Brotherhood", written by Falk and illustrated first by himself, for two weeks, followed by Ray Moore, who was an assistant to artist Phil Davis on Falk's Mandrake the Magician strip. A Sunday Phantom strip was added to newspapers on May 28, 1939. During Moore's World War II military service, he left the strip to his assistant, Wilson McCoy. Upon Moore's return, he worked on the strip on and off until 1949, when McCoy succeeded him. Following McCoy's death in 1961, Carmine Infantino and Bill Lignante (who would later draw several Phantom stories directly for comic books) filled in before Sy Barry was chosen as a successor. Barry would continue working on the strip for over 30 years before retiring in 1994.

Barry's longtime assistant, George Olesen, remained on the strip as penciller, with Keith Williams joining as the inker for the daily strip. The Sunday strip was inked by Eric Doescher until Fred Fredericks became the regular inker in 1995.

Falk continued to script Phantom until his death on March 13, 1999. His last daily and