Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady is a Quality Comics superhero, later also published by DC Comics. She started her career in Police Comics #1 alongside such characters as Plastic Man. Later she was published by two companies, Fox Features Syndicate and Quality.

Phantom Lady's main weapons besides her killer figure and wits was her black light ray that could blind her enemies.

The Quality version is more well known to comic fans for the good-girl art by Matt Baker (one of the few African-American comic book artists working during the Golden Age of Comic Books). One image of Phantom Lady trying to escape some ropes she was tied up with wound up in the famous book denouncing comics Seduction of the Innocent due to her busty figure and scanty costume.

In the mid-1950s the advent of the Comics Code, an attempt to "clean up" the content of comic books, caused some changes to her costume, less bust shown and shorts replaced the skirt. After the fifties the Fox version was seldom seen again except in the sporadic reprint or two.

DC Comics however had obtained the rights to the Quality Comics characters, including Phantom Lady, and stuck her with a group of other Quality heroes called the Freedom Fighters in Justice League of America (1st series) issue 108. The Freedom Fighters later were in their own series for fifteen issues.

Phantom Lady later was linked to the Knight family of Starman fame.

AC Comics in the 1980s had started to revive Phantom Lady but changed her name to Night Veil to avoid a dispute with DC Comics.

Though she has not had new adventures of her Fox version published in years she remains a comic book icon of beauty from the golden age.