Announced in early 2024, the book “Lee Falk – The Comic’s Legend” (Lee Falk – A Lenda dos Quadrinhos) is already one of the most talked-about Brazilian publications of the year.
We have been informed that there are limited copies left and to contact Gonçalo Junior, the author via WhatsApp message at +55 (11) 91589-4479.
Gonçalo Junior, the author, is a journalist and writer who is highly respected by Brazilian readers, having written several works on the history of comics in Brazil, as well as biographies of important comics personalities, singers and other names of cultural relevance.
According to Gonçalo, Lee Falk is one of the most important names in comics worldwide, however there has been limited works that tell his life story. In fact, he found mentions of a single work about Falk, but it was completely out of print.
Through research in archives, Gonçalo found interesting information that allowed him to trace Falk’s trajectory; in addition to this information, he also found three major interviews given by Falk, and thus it was possible to reconstruct his story with data perhaps never before gathered in a single place.
Over the course of 320 richly illustrated pages, we learn about Falk's formative years, how he was hired by King Features Syndicate, his relationship with theater, his marriages, and his way of working on the Mandrake and Phantom comics. We also discover Falk's role in the fight for civil rights for black people in the United States, at a time when racism was almost seen as natural, and his work as a spy during World War II!
Gonçalo builds his biographical narrative as a storyteller worthy of Old Man Mozz, presenting us with a man with dreams, passions, and, of course, his contradictions. We see, for example, how Falk was passionate about magicians, a great influence on the creation of Mandrake, and about the world of theater, something present in the dramatic way in which the Phantom often acts.
It is a truly impressive book, for which I am happy to have collaborated as a reviewer, and I hope that readers from other countries besides my own will have the opportunity to read this wonderful work. Would you like to see it published into English for the wider phantom audience to enjoy it? How about a campaign for a publisher to publish it in English?
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