The Phantom, masked jungle hero created in the daily and Sunday comic strip by Lee Falk on 17 FEB 1936. As of 1999, the strip still appears. There was a movie serial, as well as a ***movie written by Jeffrey Boam, author of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, starring Billy Zane. The advertising had the slogan slam evil, which was obviously thought up by idiots, but it is still a great movie.