Phantom Reporter

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Publication information
Phantom Reporter
Cover art for The Twelve #7. Art by Paolo Rivera.
Publisher	Timely Comics
First appearance	Daring Mystery Comics #3
In story information
Alter ego	Richard Jones
Team affiliations	The Twelve Daily Bugle

The Phantom Reporter (Richard "Dick" Jones) is a fictional comic book character who first appered in Daring Mystery Comics #3, published by Timely Comics, the forerunner to Marvel Comics, during the period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books.

He will reappear in The Twelve.^[1] ^[2] He had no known superpowers.

1 Fictional character biography
- 1.1 The Twelve
2 References
- 2.1 Footnotes

[edit] Fictional character biography

Dick Jones was ex-All American fullback, ex-collegiate boxing, wrestling and fencing champ. He actually has three identities: Dick Jones, reporter; Van Engen, millionaire; and Phantom Reporter, costumed crime fighter.

[edit] The Twelve

After being gassed, cryonically-frozen, and discovered during a construction project and finding himself in the year 2008 and dealt with the modern world. Phantom Reporter struggles to deal with his growing sexual attraction to the Black Widow, he is offered a job with the Daily Bugle. For the editors at the Bugle, the Phantom Reporter's first-hand experience of America's past and all the good and ill that was present, will help their readers to understand what the country means and where they came from. He accepts the job, writing his first article on the sacrifice and patriotism of his generation of heroes.