Hrvatski dnevnik

Hrvatski dnevnik was a Yugoslavian newspaper that published "The Phantom" daily and Sunday strip from 1936 to 1941 seven days a week, and then reprinted first four daily stories in comic book series "Fantom" in 1937 and 1938. It was the first Phantom publication ever in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

History

Hrvatski dnevnik was a daily newspaper published in Zagreb. It started in May 1936 and canceled in April 1941.

The newspaper was published in Croatian language. Daily strips sometimes have been edited and reduced to three panels unlike four in original version, and then in some period strips published in Hrvatski dnevnik were combined from panels of two original strips. It means that many strips were published over two days. For example, on April 24, 1939 the last panel of the last strip from the story "The Shark's Nest" was published and the first two panels of the first original strip from the next story "Fishers of Pearls". It's interesting that translator was famous Yugoslavian / Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić.

The last issue was published on April 14, 1941, but didn't contain any Phantom strip. Newspaper was banned by government of Independent State of Croatia.

Published stories

Original story title	Start date	End date	Comment
"The Singh Brotherhood"	June 7, 1936	April 7, 1937	reprinted in Fantom #1 – #9
"The Sky Band"	April 8, 1937	October 3, 1937	reprinted in Fantom - Gusari zraka #1 – #5
"War in the Jungle"	October 4, 1937	January 7, 1938	reprinted in Fantom - Rat u džungli #1 – #6
"Little Toma"	January 8, 1938	June 11, 1938	reprinted in Fantom - Fantom u Europi (Mali Toma) #1 – #12
"The Prisoner of the Himalayas"	June 12, 1938	November 13, 1938
"Adventure in Algiers"	November 14, 1938	December 23, 1938
"The Shark's Nest"	December 24, 1938	April 24, 1939
"Fishers of Pearls"	April 24, 1939	July 28, 1939
"The Slave Traders"	July 29, 1939	November 18, 1939
"The Mysterious Girl"	November 18, 1939	March 20, 1940
"The Golden Circle"	March 21, 1940	July 22, 1940
"The Sea Horse"	July 23, 1940 January 6, 1941 March 29, 1941	November 1, 1940 January 17, 1941 April 13, 1941	interrupted after the strip of June 20, 1940
"The Precious Cargo of Colonel Winn"	November 2, 1940	January 5, 1941	in daily format

Notes

• "The Singh Brotherhood" was published completely, but readers could never read some strips. For political reasons, without any connection with published comic strips, some issues were censored and banned. Those issues from the following dates were saved in National and University Library in Zagreb: November 27 and 28, 1936, and December 7-9, 14-21, and 28, 1936.
• "Adventure in Algiers" has the title of the previous story "Fantom u Indiji (Tajna maloga Tome razjašnjena)" until November 16, 1938.
• "The Shark's Nest" has the title of the previous story "Fantom i Diana" until January 6, 1939.
• "The Mysterious Girl" has the title of the previous story "Diana u rukama trgovaca robljem" until November 25, 1939, on November 26, 1939 title changed to "Fantomove pustolovine u Egiptu", and on December 19, 1939 title changed to "Fantom u borbi s otmičarima".
• "The Golden Circle" has title "Fantomov suparnik" until April 8, 1940 (the first three weeks of the story), and on April 9, 1940 title changed to "Fantom u borbi s družbom od “Kruga sa strjelicom”".
• "The Sea Horse" was parted in three, because existed problems with transporting of material from the USA. On November 1 and 2, 1940 readers were informed that publishing of this story was temporarily stopped after the ship who was transporting new strips was sunk somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. On January 6, 1941 in intro text were given some reminiscences about previous events from this story. On January 18, 1941 readers were informed that publishing of the Phantom strips will be continued for a few days, but it was happened only on March 29, 1941.
• "The Precious Cargo of Colonel Winn" was reformatted from Sunday pages to daily strips format.