Phantomias

[Santiago Garcia Banhos]

Fabio:

> A friend of mine sent me a gift, a Donald' Anthology's Book named "Die
> Stunde des Phantomias". I know we talked sometimes about this character,
> but...
>
> Can some of you refresh me about his origin? I think is totally
> italian, and
> a bit of a bizarre concept. I can accept the existence of parallels
> universes of ducks. There where they humans exists too, are not my
> favorites...

Phantomias, Patomas, Paperinik, or Superduck, as far as I know, is indeed
Italian. His first appearance (and also the story of his origin) was in
"Paperinik il diabolico vendicatore" (TL-706b: story by Guido Martina, art
by Carpi), in which Donald inherits a big old house which happens to have
been the secret headquartes of Phantomias, a 19th century thief.

I don't know if it's been drawn by any American artist (there seems to be
few entries for 'Superduck' in the INDUCKS), but I think it's the Great
Massimo de Vita the one who most has told about him.

More info at:

http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/chars/superduck.html

Santiago.