Editing Phantom Lady (section)

===Quality Comics===
Phantom Lady first appeared in [[Quality Comics|Quality]]'s ''[[Police Comics]]'' #1 (August 1941), an anthology title which also included the debut of characters such as [[Plastic Man]] and the [[Human Bomb]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cowsill |first1=Alan |last2=Irvine |first2=Alex |last3=Korte |first3=Steve |last4=Manning |first4=Matt |last5=Wiacek |first5=Win |last6=Wilson |first6=Sven |title=The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe |date=2016 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-1-4654-5357-0 |page=231}}</ref> That issue established her [[alter ego]] as Sandra Knight, the daughter of [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] Henry Knight.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Benton |first1=Mike |title=Superhero Comics of the Golden Age: The Illustrated History |date=1992 |publisher=Taylor Publishing Company |location=Dallas |isbn=0-87833-808-X |url=https://archive.org/details/superherocomicso0000bent/page/118 |access-date=April 1, 2020 |pages=119–121}}</ref> 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.

Sandra Knight assumed the identity of Phantom Lady in a costume consisting of a green cape and the equivalent of a one-piece yellow [[swimsuit]]. She used a "black light projector", a device which allowed her to blind her enemies and make herself invisible. She drove a car whose headlights also projected black light when necessary. She was sometimes assisted by her fiance, Donald Borden, an agent of the U.S. State Department.

According to ''Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes'', "she fights the cowgirl Ace of Spades, the arsonist Fire Fiend, the Killer Clown, the Robbing Robot, the woman-killer the Subway Slayer, and the cloud-seeding saboteur the Vulture".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nevins |first1=Jess |title=Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes |date=2013 |publisher=High Rock Press |isbn=978-1-61318-023-5 |page=206}}</ref>

Phantom Lady ran as one of the features in ''Police Comics'' through #23. [[Arthur Peddy]] continued as the artist through #13, with [[Joe Kubert]] drawing her feature in ''Police Comics'' #14-16; [[Frank Borth]] in #17-21; Peddy again in #22; and Rudy Palais in #23. Phantom Lady also appeared in ''[[Feature Comics]]'' #69-71 as part of a [[fictional crossover|crossover]] with [[Spider Widow]] and the Raven.