Wednesday, July 19, 2023

MINOR SUPER-HERO 037: THE PHANTOM BULLET

(Daring Mystery Comics 002, 1940)


There's a lot of people on the internet who like to opine on the morality of bat-themed rich-guy vigilantism, but I gotta tell you that it could have been a whole lot worse. Case in point, the Phantom Bullet, a rich guy who gets ahold of an untraceable ice pellet gun and immediately thinks "what this city needs is a whole lot more extra-judicial killings."

But instead of becoming an unstoppable media juggernaut, the Phantom Bullet made just one Golden Age appearance (like so many of his Daring compatriots) and returned only once, seventy years later, to die.

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