“Yes,” she proclaimed, “Johnny Lizard Atman will be his given name.”

In 1980, the eleven-year-old Larry Holt wrote a superheroic crime novella titled The Rise of the Phantom Phantom. Now, some forty-four years later, his adult son and his friends decide to bully him for it.

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