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My name is Björn Harnby and I entered the world of the Phantom in the beginning of the sixties.
I then joined the Swedish Phantom society "Fantomenklubben", at that time called "Fantomens Deckarklubb", and became member 103735.
Yet I didn't start to collect Phantom items until the beginning of the nineties. Since then I have had the pleasure of shaking hands with Lee Falk, the creator of the Phantom, Sy Barry, the artist that have drawn most Phantom stories, and a number of Swedish Phantom writers and artists. Another great moment was when I had the opportunity to meet Pete Klaus, one of the greatest Phantom Phans in US, in his home in Baltimore and was shown highlights from his huge collection.

If you have any comments to the content or display of my Phantom pages, please let me know. My email address is harnby@yahoo.com.

The first Phantom story was published in US February 17:th 1936. It was the story "The Singh Brotherhood". It was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Ray Moore. In Sweden it is called "Singhpiraterna".
The first time the Phantom was published in Sweden was in Vecko-Revyn no 21 1940.
It was the story "Adventure in Algiers" that's called "Äventyr i Algeriet" in Sweden.
It run for 9 weeks and this is the only time that this story has been published in Sweden.
The first Fantomen comic was published in 1944, as a Christmas annual, and contained the story "The Golden Circle" (Mysteriet Pilringen) from 1939 - written by Lee Falk and drawn by Ray Moore.
October 5:th 1950 the Phantom was published as a biweekly comic book. The first story was "The Maharajah's daughter" (Den kidnappade maharadjan) - written by Lee Falk and drawn by Wilson McCoy.
The first Swedish newspaper that published the Phantom was Svenska Dagbladet. It was the 8:e June 1942 and the Phantom was presented as "Dragos - den mystiske mannen" (Dragos - The Mysterious Man) and the story was Diana Aviatrix Lost (Tempelruinens gåta).

Fantomen has been published as comic strip in a number of Phantom publications and in newspapers and magazines. I have put together a list over the Fantomen stories that have been presented in Fantomen publications in Sweden.

I have listed the Phantom stories that have been edited by the Swedish Phantom Editors. The first Swedish story was presented in no 8 1963 and is called "Skatten i dödskallegrottan". It was written and drawn by Bertil Wilhelmsson.
After that the Swedish editors have (up to 2004) used 46 writers (+ the Italian stories from Fratelli Spada and stories created by Ulf Granberg together with some artists) and 32 different artists (+ the Italian Fratelli Spada stories).

The source that is mentioned is as follows:
D = Daily story (USA), S = Sunday story (USA), F = Fantomen story (Sweden),
FL = Fantomen legend (= The heart of darkness - Sweden), FS = Fratelli Spada (Italy),
GK = Gold Key (USA), King = King (USA), Charlton = Charlton (USA)
I have used Andreas Erikssons index as source for the Swedish stories.

I have also listed in what Swedish publications the Lee Falk stories have been presented and also those stories created for the daily and sunday newspapers in USA that never have been published in Swedish comics.

I would like to thank Jan-Ola Sjöberg for assisting with supplementary details.

I have also tried to do a genealogical table for the different Phantoms.
The mentioned dates are as all real Phantom friends know, very uncertain, but give a hunt of when things might have happened
The facts are mainly based on the Scandinavian Phantom edition but if there are obvious conflicting data between these and the Lee Falk stories, I have mentioned both for being able to give a complete picture as far as possible.
This especially goes for the Sunday story "The Fourth Son" from 1991/92 and the Daily story "The Phantom Cowboy" from 1994.

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