Record ID:
43972546 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no 96035125 n 2009062671
Heading:
Used for:
  • Gross, Leon Harrison, 1911-1999
Notes:
  • The phantom, ©1996 t.p. (Lee Falk)
  • Ansible, 141, via WWW, Oct. 21, 2008 (1905-1999)
  • Lambiek comiclopedia website, viewed June 26, 2009 (Lee Falk (Apr. 28, 1911 - Mar. 12, 1999, USA); after graduating from the Univ. of Ill., found work as a copywriter for a St. Louis advertising agency; there, met Phil Davis, with whom he created "Mandrake the Magician" in 1934; sold "Mandrake" to King Features Syndicate; also created "The Phantom" for King Features; also author of several theatrical plays & Phantom paperback novels)
  • Lee Falk Obituary - Frew Publications, viewed June 26, 2009 (LEE FALK 1911 - 1999; creator of The Phantom & Mandrake the Magician; d. on Sat. 13 March 1999 in NY, USA aged 87 years)
  • The Phantom: the complete newspaper dailies, ©2010 vol. 1, p. 12 (Leon Harrison Gross was born on April 28, 1911, in St. Louis. By the time he sold his first comic strip, Mandrake the Magician, he had changed his name to Lee Falk)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)900710
Cataloguing source:
  • OCl eng rda OCl OkU DLC IlMchBWI DLC