The 23rd Phantom

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The 23rd Phantom
Active years (Team Fantomen):
Active in 2050
Active years (Lee Falk):
N/A
Active years (Moonstone):
N/A
Active years (Bastei):
N/A
Active years (Other producers):
Phantom 2040: Early 2000's to 2040

The 23rd Phantom is one of the Phantoms. As the current Phantom generally is considered the 21th, the 23rd Phantom is a futuristic character.

Fictional Character Biography

According to Team Fantomen

In "The Phantom vs Singh 2050", a futuristic "what-if story" produced by Team Fantomen, the Phantom of 2050 appears and is explicitly stated to be the 23rd Phantom, grandson of the 21st Phantom.

According to Phantom 2040

The 23rd Phantom collapses after waking up from a 16 year long frozen hibernation.

The 23rd Phantom lost his wife at a very early stage and then raised his son on his own. He tried to clean up widespread pollution in Metropia (once known as New York City) by using a very special plant, native to Bangalla, known as ghostwood. When his son was two years old, around 2024, he disappeared mysteriously around the same time that Maxwell Madison, Sr. died. For years, no one knew what had happened to him.

Finally, his son, Kit, found him and discovered that he was still alive after having frozen himself. He was poisoned from the very pollution he'd been trying to cure, however, so he soon fell in a coma before his son found him.

It turned out that he and Maxwell Madison, Sr. together had tried to clean the city, but they had been betrayed by Madison's wife, Rebecca Madison. She killed her husband and the 23rd Phantom via poisonous gas, though later came to revive her husband by using his memories. Through the same technology, the 23rd's son managed to transfer his memories to a computer just before he died.

Notable Appearances

Team Fantomen stories

• "The Phantom vs Singh 2050" by Claes Reimerthi and Hans Lindahl