Ray Moore (comics)

After Lee Falk, he was the first artist on what would become the world's most popular adventure comic strip, The Phantom, which started in 1936.

He was the son of a jeweler[2] and clockmaker, and originally intended to become an engineer (at the request of his father), before he realised that he could live off his job as an artist.

Moore had previously worked as Phil Davis' assistant on the Lee Falk-created Mandrake the Magician comic strip, which was why he was thought to be a suitable choice to draw Falk's new creation.

[citation needed] The idea of the Phantom's pet wolf Devil is believed to have come from Moore's lifelong pleasure of drawing wolves and his love of dogs.

[citation needed] Lee Falk always claimed that Moore was the best artist on the Phantom, because of his talent for drawing beautiful women.

[citation needed] It was this talent that led Falk to create many crime corporations only consisting of women, like the infamous Sky Band.

In Paramount Pictures' The Phantom film adaptation, starring Billy Zane, the butler of the Palmer family is called "Falkmoore", a reference to Lee Falk and Ray Moore.