#213 - Random Phantom Phacts

Who loves a good random phact? 


Jermayn Parker and Dan Fraser got over 10
random phacts from around the world. We reckon not one phan will
know all 10 & everyone will learn something as you listen or
watch this podcast.


Here are the random Phantom phacts we highlight during the
podcast.
Multiple wives marrying the same Phantom.  

Pura married the 3rd, 4th and 11th Phantom 

1st and 2nd married Marabella

One of the first comic books published had a cover image of
Phantom without the skin tight costume which he fast became famous
for (just gloves, mask and briefs)

Learn about the Brazillian comic here.

The Phantom Club in Australia was run out of the space under a
two-story Queenslander in Coorparoo.

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast: Episode #81 

Learn more about the Preservation Project

Name changes from around the World:

In the Indian language Bengali:

Devil is Bagha 

Hero is Tufan which means Storm

The country Bangalla / Bengali is renamed to
Denkali 



Fantomen in a Swedish newspaper was called Dragos

Mikael will be exploring this in an article for us later



Sala is Diana and Diana is Sala (Read the full story at this
link)

Lee Falk only used the Singh Pirates as a significant
villain in one story ever 

Originally intended to be grey costume, printers decision led to
iconic purple (Read the full story at this link)

First colonial township ever mentioned in The Phantom was
Frasertown, a settlement on the outskirts of the jungle.

Third most credited writer is someone most phans have never heard
of and likely never read his stories: Peter Mennigen (Read
an interview with Peter here)

Longest running continuous Phantom comic series is not Frew but
rather the Fantomen Swedish Christmas Album series which first
published in 1944 and is still publishing them yearly.

Lee Falk based the Bandar tribe on the real life African
tribe the Ituri  (Learn about Ituri and watch a video here )

We would love to hear from you on what you think of the Random
Phantom Phacts we discussed in this podcast & we hope you
have a great time listening to the podcast. 


Huge shout out to all those websites and phans who have helped
with sources:


Deepwoods.org 

PhantomWiki.org 

ChronicleChamber.com 


Mikael Lyck


Ankit Mitra


Swaroop Chand


Ivan Pedersen 


Ed Rhoades


Jermayn Parker


Dan Fraser



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