Rip Jagger's recent post on his blog about DiPluhm's Phantom stories reminded me of who the writer really is—the splash page to "Skyjack" that Rip uses as his illustration has the Ghost Who Walks saying "Great Scot" with one "t" rather than the more common "Great Scott." That and other markers unlike Skeates' identify the writer as D. J. Arneson. (He also wrote as DiPluhm for Go-Go and Abbott and Costello, two titles Skeates worked on, which may help explain those fans' thought processes). This example is from "The Giant Ape of Thawth."
Phantom stories written by D. J. Arneson
* = credited (as "Norm DiPluhm")
| Aug/69 | 33 | The Phantom's Death | |
| Oct/ | 34 | The Cliff Kingdom | * |
| The Giant Ape of Tawth | |||
| Feb/70 | 36 | The River That Never Ends | * |
| Very Special Timber | * | ||
| Apr/ | 37 | Bandar Betrayers | * |
| Skyjack | * | ||
| Disband the Patrol! | * | ||
| Jun/ | 38 | The Dying Ground | * |
| The Phantom's New Faith | |||
| The Trap |
That's the entirety of Arneson's Phantom stories. On Ghostly Tales here are the stories that jumped out at me in flipping through the entire run for my own indexing; there may be a few more.
Ghostly Tales by Arneson
* = credited (as "DiPluhm")
| Oct/67 | 63 | Up on the Mountain | |
| Feb/68 | 65 | The Phantom Crew | * |
| May/ | 66 | Water, Water, Everywhere | * |
| Sept/ | 68 | Yo Ho Ho and a Dead Man's Jest | |
| Nov/ | 70 | Pop Goes Popolos |
