The Great Ajax
The Great Ajax | |
Start date: | July 21st, 1952 |
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End date: | October 11th, 1952 |
# of strips: | 72 (12 weeks) |
Writer: | Lee Falk |
Artist: | Wilson McCoy |
Original colorist: | N/A |
Preceded by: | "Bobo the Toy Dog" |
Followed by: | "The Toad Men" |
"The Great Ajax" is the 47th Phantom daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Wilson McCoy.
Plot Summary
Ajax works as a strongman at a circus where also his brother Max has a job as a lilliputian. They both lose their job when Ajax looses his temper and starts a fight with spectators commenting on his brains. When Max leaves his brother unattended two burglars persuade Ajax to help them steal a safe. In the middle of the street while Ajax is carrying the safe a police discovers them and the other two burglars escape, however Max has returned and manages to help Ajax hide. Max decides to find a person much stronger than Ajax to teach his brother a lesson. He pays a roughneck in the harbour to beat up Ajax but it turns out to be an easy fight in favor of Ajax. After they get a new job at a circus Ajax soon gets into a fight with the audience again, however a man in a trenchcoat, hat and sunglasses interrupts the fight and knocks Ajax out. When Ajax rejoins the burglars, who have decided to steal the Llongo treasure during a royal wedding in the Llongo village, Max decides to seek help from the man who put a skull mark on the jaw of his brother. He walks out into the jungle and screams for the Phantom after a native bartender has told it is the only way to find the man he is looking for.
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- Ajax
- Max
- Bill
- Big Bailey
- Pete
Related stories
Follows
Referenced in
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Argentina
- "El hombre más fuerte del mundo", Tit-Bits #2327 – #2340 (1954)
- Gran Bonete #1 (1954)
- "Músculos de acero", El Fantasma #22 (1960)
- "El Forzudo", El Espectro #106 (1968)
Australia
- The Phantom #63 (1953)
- The Phantom #153 (1959)
- The Phantom #257 (1964)
- The Phantom #397 (1969)
- The Phantom #561 (1975)
- The Phantom #751 (1982)
- The Phantom #1167 (1997)
- The Phantom #1818 (2018)
Barbados
- Barbados Advocate September 2, 1952 – November 26, 1952
Brazil
- "O Rapto de Jerry", Fantasma #1 (1953)
- "O Grande Ajax", Fantasma Especial 1978
- "O Rapto de Jerry", Fantasma Especial (1980)
Canada
- La Patrie July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
Denmark
- Hejmdal May 17, 1954 – August 10, 1954
Finland
- "...ja maailman vahvin mies", Sarjakuvalehti 8/1962
- "Jalokivivarkaus", Sarjakirja 1/1992
- "Suuri Ajax", Ilta-Sanomat October 8, 2012 – October 23, 2012 - without the first week, the second week was printed twice and December 27, 2018 – January 17, 2019
France
- "Ajax le géant", Le Fantôme #311 – #312 (1970)
Italy
- "Ajax il gigante", Il Vascello #17 (1958)
- "Ajax il gigante", I Classici dell'Avventura #50 (1963)
- "Aiax il gigante", L'Uomo Mascherato #159 (1970)
- "Ajax il gigante", Phantom #31 (1994)
- "Ajax il gigante", Phantom #300
Jamaica
- The Daily Gleaner November 2, 1952 – January 29, 1953
Mexico
- El Informador September 15, 1952 – December 6, 1952
- "Vence a Ajax", Paquito #10012 (1953)
Norway
- Aftenposten September 12, 1953 – December 4, 1953
- "Juveltyveriet", Fantomet 23/1975
- "Juveltyveriet", Serie-pocket #168 (1992)
- "Juveltyveriet", Krønikebok #38 (2007)
New Zealand
Portugal
- "O Roubo das Jóias", Selecções #1 (1961)
- "O Grande Ajax", Jornal do Cuto #123 (1975)
- "O Grande Ajax", Jornal do Cuto Vol. 6 N. 110-125
Spain
- "El invencible Ajax", El Hombre Enmascarado #33, "Un hermano ejemplar", #34, "Las joyas de la corona", #35, and "Por el camino recto", #36 (1952)
- "El hombre mas fuerte de mundo", El Hombre Enmascarado #24 and "La redención", #25 (1958)
- "El hombre mas fuerte de mundo", El Hombre Enmascarado #73A – #74A
- "Ayax el Gigante", Phantom, El Hombre Enmascarado #38
Sweden
- Svenska Dagbladet October 12, 1953 – January 7, 1954
- Nerikes Allehanda October 4, 1954 – December 28, 1954
- Fantomen 23 – 26/1955
- "Juvel-stölden", Fantomen 13/1961
- "Juvelstölden", Fantomen 3/1975
- Fantomen - Den inbundna årgången 1955, Del 3 (2007)
- Fantomen - Den inbundna årgången 1961, Del 3 (2012)
United Arab Republic
- "الشبح و أقوي رجل في العالم" (romanized as "Alshabah wa aqua rajol fi alalem"), Samir #227 – #238 (1960)
USA
- The Beaver County Times July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Bradford Era July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Charleston Daily Mail July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Chester Times July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Daily Item July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Daily Record July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Evening News July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Green Bay Press-Gazette July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Hanford Morning Journal July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Herald News July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Monessen Daily Independent July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Morristown Gazette Mail July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Nassau Daily Review-Star July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Oneonta Star July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Oxnard Press-Courier July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Progress July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Reading Eagle July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Rome Daily Sentinel July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Sandusky Register Star News July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- Syracuse Herald Journal July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Times Recorder July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Washington Reporter July 21, 1952 – October 11, 1952
- The Complete Newspaper Dailies: Volume Eleven 1951–1953 (2017)
West Germany
- "Der Schatz der Wabutus", Phantom #66 (1976)
- "Der Schatz der Wabutus", Phantom Super-band #7