Airship 27's The Phantom Detective, Vol 2 has been on the backburner for a couple years, but at long last, it's reaching completion. The volume will include stories by Carson Demmans, Gene Moyers, Fred Adams Jr. and yours truly, with artwork by Kevin Paul Shaw Broden.
The Phantom (Detective) is, in fictional truth, Richard Curtis Van Loan, a wealthy playboy who stages his crimefighting tactics along the lines of Batman, The Green Hornet and The Spider. The Phantom Detective magazine was so popular that it outlived those of Doc Savage and The Shadow. Not too shabby.
My contribution to the newest anthology is "The Master Youths of Janus." It references such weird tales as Village of the Damned/The Midwich Cuckoos, Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life" and The Outer Limits' "The Sixth Finger."
For the record, "Master Youths" includes three important, Phantom compatriots: Frank Havens (publisher of The Clarion); Muriel Havens (Frank's daughter and Van Sloan's gal) and Jerry Lannigan (a WWI chum, who believes The Phantom and Van Sloan are two different people).
The initial, Airship 27 revival of The Phantom Detective is still available for purchase, if one should desire a reflective jump start:
https://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Detective-One-Gary-Lovisi-ebook/dp/B01MQGWQH9/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+phantom+detective+vol+1&qid=1623536279&sr=8-1
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