#153 - The Stories Behind the Cards

We are joined by Mikael Lyck, the creator and developer behind "The Phantom: The Card Game" and we discuss and review the stories that form the Card Game that is currently on Kickstarter and is fully funded. The stories we review are "The Story of Devil", "Diana in the Jungle Patrol" and "Year One: The 21st Phantom".

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Devil’s Story

1979 Team Fantomen story, written by Donne Avenell, with art by Georges Bess and has been published in 14 countries. One reviewer labelled this as the best Team Fantomen story ever!

Sweden: published 5 times, first in Fantomen 23/1979, most recently Krönika 6/2007
Australia: 1992 (#1013), 1996 (#1125) and the 2017 Frew TPB “For Those Who Came In Late”

Diana in the Jungle Patrol

1973 Team Fantomen story, written by Magnus Knutsson, with art by Jaime Vallvé. This adventure has almost exclusively published in Scandinavia. We have also spoken to Magnus in  X-Band: The Phantom Podcast Episode #119.

Sweden: 3 times, first in Fantomen 5/1973 and most recently Krönika 2/2003
Australia: Once (only time outside Scandinavian nations) in 2018 (#1804) 

The 21st Phantom

2004 Team Fantomen story, written by Claes Reimerthi, with art by Paul Ryan.

Sweden: Fantomen 17/2004 (also rest of Scandinavia 2004)
Australia: 2004 (#1390)

We would love to hear your feedback and thoughts of these three stories. If you have other stories you would like to see based on a card game, let us know.