Hero for Hire 4 (Dec 1972) VF (8.0)

Cry Fear...Cry Phantom!

Script: Archie Goodwin (credited)

Pencils: Billy Graham (credited)

Inks: Syd Shores

Letters: John Costanza (credited)

Characters: Phil Fox (first appearance); Luke Cage (featured); Phantom of 42nd Street (death) (antagonist) (first appearance); Phantom of 42nd Street (antagonist) (first appearance); Adrian Loring (introduction, flashback); Jasper Brunt (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis: A decade long inter-family feud over business erupts, with one of the antagonists posing as a phantom. A suicidal plunge to the death on the part of one participant also brings the other to his doom, exacting revenge in a homicidal leap from a high office in a tall building which carries both characters down to the street.

The transformation of the 42nd Street theaters from live play houses to 2nd run movie theaters is part of the background of this story, a theme which began when Cage first rented his office above a theater in #2.

Brief one panel, partial synopsis of Cage's origin.