Best story 2015 (Norway)

The Best story 2015 vote was held in Fantomet 2/2016 and the results were presented in Fantomet 5/2016.

Results

Place	Title	Writer	Artist	Votes
1	"A Plague in Venice"	Lundström	Lindahl	46
2	"1943, Part 1" "1943, Part 2"	Rassy	Saviuk	28
3	"A Detente with Crime" "Mexico's Phantom"	DePaul	Ryan	23
4	"Nat Turner's Spirit, Part 1" "Nat Turner's Spirit, Part 2" "Nat Turner's Spirit, Part 3"	Reimerthi	Leppänen	19
5	"Singh War, Part 1: The Flying Dutchman" "Singh War, Part 2: Rodiagate"	Reimerthi	Spadari, Bade	18
6	"The Return of Colonel Weeks"	DePaul	Ryan	15
7	"Blood Red Sea"	Reimerthi	Boix	12
8	"The Doorman"	DePaul	Ryan	11
9	"The Dirty Half-Dozen"	DePaul	Beatty	9
10	"The Skull Gang"	Reimerthi	Bade	6
11	"Raiders of the Lost City, Part 2"	Reimerthi	Saviuk	3
12	"Children of the Fog"	Darell	Bess	1
	"The Bourbon Tax"	Hansegård	Bade
14	"The Den of Tigers"	DePaul	Ryan	0
	"Ticket to Freedom"	Reimerthi	Jonsson
	"The Crying Idol"	Tierres	Bess
	"Death Stalks the 5th Phantom"	DePaul	Beatty
	"Mandrake's Bon Voyage"	DePaul	Beatty
	"The College Kid"	DePaul	Ryan
	"The Medicine Man's Daughter"	Semb	Spadari
	"The Lost Kingdom of Avaria"	DePaul	Ryan
	"The Rivals"	Madden	Velluto
	"The Love Triangle"	DePaul	Ryan
Total:				192

Notes

• These stories were considered as one story for this vote:
  • "1943, Part 1" and "Part 2"
  • "A Detente with Crime" and "Mexico's Phantom"
  • "Nat Turner's Spirit, Part 1", "Part 2", and "Part 3"
  • "Singh War, Part 1: The Flying Dutchman" and "Singh War, Part 2: Rodiagate"
• Six short The World of the Phantom stories that were published during 2015 were not eligible to vote for.
• One Phantom Kids story that was published in 2015 was not eligible to vote for: "Kit and Heloise on Adventure"
• One Dynamite story that was published in 2015 was not eligible to vote for: "Kings Watch Part 1".

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Best Story Winners
Finland
1985: "The Prisoner at Capitolium" | 1986: "The Moor of Death"
Norway
1979: "The Heirs" | 1983: "Tale of Rex" | 1984: "Hero" | 1985: "Pirates of the Yellow Snake" | 1986: "The Beanstalk" & "Race Against Death" (tie) | 1987: "Devil's Adventure" | 1988: "Eden" | 1989: "The Last Unicorn" | 1990: "The Last Emperor" | 1991: "Death of a Patrolman, Part 2: Tracking the Killers" | 1992: "The Wolf is Coming" | 1993: "Aron" | 1994: "The Commander is Dead" | 1995: "The Demon's Image" | 1996: "Johnny Hotwire" | 1997: "The Ghost Who Died Twice" | 1998: "The Last Phantom, Part 1: The Eighth Circle" | 1999: "Devil's Story" | 2000: "The Phantom vs Singh 2050" | 2001: "The Invisible Phantom" | 2002: "In A Strange Land, Part 2" | 2003: "My Darling Pirate" | 2004: "Son of the Pirate Queen" | 2005: "The King of Norway" | 2006: "The Singh Brotherhood" | 2007: "Dogai - The Road to Power" & "The Commander is Dead" (best reprint) | 2008: "The Devil of Ravenscar" & "Kingdom of the Amazons" (best reprint) | 2009: "Duel at Deadman's Gulch" | 2010: "The Cabin Boy and the Princess" | 2011: "The Gulf of Aden Pirates" | 2012: "The Pirates' Prisoner" | 2013: "The Slave Ship Zong" | 2014: "Death of a Pirate Queen" | 2015: "A Plague in Venice" | 2016: "John X" & "Patrolman X" | 2017: "The Karabasan League"
Sweden
1978: "The Avenger from the Sea" & "Phantom Wedding" (tie) | 1979: "Devil's Story" | 1980: "The Treasure from Rhodes" | 1981: "The Legend of the Swords, Part 1: Excalibur" | 1982: "The Stone Carving People" | 1983: "The Water of Life" | 1984: "The First Phantom" | 1985: "The Beanstalk" | 1986: "The Battle on Malta" & "Devil's Story" (best reprint) | 1987: "The King is Dead" | 1988: "Eden" | 1989: "The Last Unicorn" | 1990: "The Cathedral Mystery" | 1991: "Devil's Story" | 1992: "Hoogan's Revenge" | 1993: "The Test" | 1994: "The Commander is Dead" | 1995: "The Set Up, Part 1" & Part 2 | 1996: "The Last Viking" | 1997: "The Ghost Who Died Twice" | 1998: "Return of the Zombies" | 1999: "Devil's Story" | 2000: "The Phantom vs Singh 2050" | 2001: "The Prodigal Son" | 2002: "The Long Bow of Little John" | 2003: "My Darling Pirate" | 2004: "Son of the Pirate Queen" | 2005: "The Battle on Malta" | 2006: "The Singh Brotherhood" | 2007: "The Phantom Crusader, Part 1" & "The Commander is Dead" (best reprint) | 2008: "The Castaways" & "Kingdom of the Amazons" (best reprint)" | 2009: "The  Phantom Gladiator, Part 1" | 2010: "The Cabin Boy and the Princess" & "The Dragon Throne" (tie) | 2011: "The Sons of Captain Walker" | 2012: "The Pirates' Prisoner" | 2013: "Year 1349" | 2014: "Death of a Pirate Queen" | 2015: "A Plague in Venice" | 2016: "Nat Turner's Spirit, Part 6: The King of Louisiana" | 2017: "Farewell to the Deep Woods" | 2018: "The Ghost at Gallows' Inn" | 2019: "The Devil in Stockholm" | 2020: "A Reckoning with the Nomad" | 2021: "Devil's Story" | 2022: "Saga of the Vultures Chapter One: The Haunted Castle"