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Cover: Carl Burgos
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Great Action Comics #8

Jan 1958 · I. W. Publishing / Super Comics · 0.10 USD
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The main story "The Zombie," starring the Phantom Lady, involves a mysterious ship entering New Orleans harbor at midnight, leading to a covert operation where the Phantom Lady must investigate suspicious activity. A subplot involving military personnel deals with rocket sites in South America and urgent orders to form an umbrella over New York and apprehend anything suspicious, while a separate incident occurs where a woman named Sandra Knight becomes the Phantom Lady and must prevent a tragedy involving a runaway subway train. In Hollywood, a glamorous actress becomes entangled in a murder mystery connected to a red rain substance that brings death, prompting urgent communication across the country to Senator Knight about a menace requiring intervention by plane in the morning.

Contains 4 stories
An Army of Walking Dead (The Zombie)
11 pp · Superhero
Women of the Tropics
1 pp · Non-Fiction
The World's Meanest Crook
10 pp · Superhero

In "The World's Meanest Crook," the Phantom Lady takes on a ruthless operator named Foreclose who preys on the desperate by luring them into buying unaffordable property—only to ensure they default and lose everything to foreclosure. With her sharp instincts and unyielding sense of justice, she uncovers the scheme and sets out to expose the man behind the deceit.

The Red Rain
7 pp · Superhero

Phantom Lady races to stop a killer using red rain as a cover for murders, uncovering a plot involving a hidden forest of movable trees and a villain who leaves no trace. As the rain falls and panic spreads, she confronts the mastermind behind the scheme, revealing her true identity as Sandra Knight in the process.

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Our Model is In Beta
Raw (VG) $64
CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $65*
CGC 6.5 · 2 in census $55*
CGC 6.0 none in existence
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $38*
CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $30*
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CGC 4.0 none in existence
CGC 3.5 none in existence
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CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $30*
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Full credits

artist, inker Matt Baker
cover pencils, inks Carl Burgos

Reprints

↩ Reprints Phantom Lady #15 (1947)

Reprinted in The Phantom Lady #2 (1979), Roy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady Softee #3 (2013)

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