The Phantom Gives Therapy

New York: Boo-Hooray / Carl Johan De Geer, 2014. Original color lithographic print created for the Carl Johan De Geer exhibition at Printed Matter's 2014 Los Angeles Art Book Fair, showing Lee Falk's comic strip character The Phantom spanking various women in a collage format.

SIGNED, titled, and numbered by De Geer along the bottom margin, noted in manuscript ink as No. 5 from an edition of 20 copies.

Born in Montreal and raised in a castle in southern Sweden, Carl Johan De Geer is a Swedish baron, artist, musician, and writer known for his leftist, frequently provocative works.

Lee Falk created The Phantom in 1936 as a daily newspaper strip and is still published today as a Sunday strip. The Phantom's character design was influential on the modern stylized image of the superhero in tight fitting body suits and masks, a few years later adopted by Bob Kane for "Batman" and Joe Shuster for "Superman."

24.75 x 29.75 inches. Fine.

[Book #160821]