With a printed laminated cover, special endpapers, and 224 pages of action packed of stories nine through thirteen of the DC Comic Phantom, this volume features scripts by Mark Verheiden and pencils and inks by Luke McDonnell; colors by Anthony Tollin. The third in the series, this title includes introductory essay and extra art from the classic golden age comic. Mark Verheiden is an American television, movie, and comic-book writer. He was a co-executive producer for the television series Falling Skies for DreamWorks Television and the TNT network. Verheiden's introduction into writing comics came in June 1987, when he penned The American, which was published by Dark Horse Comics. Starting in March of the following year, he wrote what was to be the first of many Verheiden/Dark Horse comics based on the 20th Century Fox film-series Aliens, and comics based on the similarly licensed property Predator soon followed. He contributed to the1989 Harvey and Eisner A1 anthology series. his Phantom stories featured in a 13-issue maxi-series from DC Comics Verheiden contributed to scripts for the feature films The Mask and Timecop, both based on Dark Horse comics, and the latter based on Verheiden's creation. Verheiden was also the creator/writer and supervising producer on the ABC television series Timecop. Verheiden was a writer and executive producer on NBC's short-lived 2014–15 series Constantine based on the Vertigo/DC Hellblazer comic. Luke McDonnell is an American artist whose early career was spent specializing in comic books. Luke McDonnell began his career as a comics artist in 1980 and illustrated a wide variety of comics including long runs on Iron Man, The Phantom and Suicide Squad.