Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady
Phantom Lady (Stormy Knight) Promotional interior art for Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #4 (Oct. 2006), by Daniel Acuña
Publication information
Publisher	Originally Quality Comics Later Fox Feature Syndicate, among others. Currently DC Comics
First appearance	(Sandra) Police Comics #1 (August 1941) (Dee) Action Comics Weekly #636 (January, 1989) (Stormy) Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Blüdhaven #1 (Early June, 2006)
Created by	(Sandra) The Eisner & Iger studio Arthur Peddy (penciler) (Dee) Len Strazewski (writer) Chuck Austen (penciller) (Stormy) Justin Gray (writer) Jimmy Palmiotti (writer)
In-story information
Alter ego	- Sandra Knight - Delilah "Dee" Tyler - Stormy Knight
Team affiliations	(Sandra) All-Star Squadron (Sandra, Delilah) Université Notre Dame des Ombres (Stormy) S.H.A.D.E. (All) Freedom Fighters

Phantom Lady is a fictional superheroine, one of the first female superhero characters to debut in the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books. Originally published by Quality Comics, the character was subsequently published by a series of now-defunct comic book companies, and a new version of the character currently appears in books published by DC Comics.

As published by Fox Feature Syndicate in the late 1940s, the busty and scantily-clad Phantom Lady is a notable and controversial example of "good girl art," a style of comic art depicting voluptuous female characters in provocative situations and pin-up poses that contributed to widespread criticism of the medium's effect on children. Phantom Lady was created by the Eisner & Iger studio, one of the first to produce comics on demand for publishers. The character's early adventures were drawn by Arthur Peddy. The character was ranked 49th in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.

Phantom Lady first appeared in Quality's Police Comics #1 (Aug, 1941), an anthology title the first issue of which also included the debut of characters such as Plastic Man and the Human Bomb. That issue established her alter ego as Sandra Knight, the beautiful Washington, D.C. debutante daughter of U.S. Senator Henry Knight. The issue established that it was not her first appearance as the Phantom Lady, but it did not go into her origin. Stories published decades later by DC Comics would give her a proper origin, which was altered several times to give Sandra a more active role. Her skimpy costume was eventually explained as a deliberate tactic to distract her usually male foes.