Best story 1987 (Sweden)

The Best story 1987 vote was held in Fantomen 26/1987, and the results were presented in Fantomen 7/1988.

Results for the best story

Place	Title	Writer	Artist	Votes
1	"The King is Dead"	Worker	Leppänen	68
2	"The Ghost Pirate"	Avenell	Bade	42
3	"The Forest of Horrors"	Worker	Leppänen	40
	"The Secret of Polymos"	Avenell	Spadari
5	"The Rose of Cairo, Part 2: Pandora's Box"	Tierres	Lindahl	35
6	"The Rose of Cairo, Part 1"	Tierres	Lindahl	27
7	"The Junky"	Worker	Leppänen	23
8	"The Prisoner Who didn't Exist"	Reimerthi	Vallvé	21
9	"Goldhand"	Lundström	Bess	17
10	"The Venetian Ghost"	Tierres	Vallvé	15
	"The Floating Coffin"	Worker	Leppänen
12	"The Blood Night"	Tierres	Vallvé	14
	"Death in the East End, Part 3: Castle in the Sea"	Tierres	Lindahl
14	"Seaman Walker"	Andersson, Granberg	Vallvé	13
15	"Diamond Fever"	Avenell	Vallvé	11
	"Death in the East End, Part 2"	Tierres	Bess
	"The Curse of Carpatia"	Worker	Felmang, Waldrag
	"Jamaica Jack's Treasure"	Tierres	Vallvé
19	"The Escaped Convicts" & "Sunken Treasure"	Falk	Barry	9
20	"The Elephant Sect"	Tierres	Wilhelmsson, Eralp	8
	"Gandor's Revenge"	Worker	Vallvé
	"Llongo's Amulet"	Avenell	Bade
23	"The Tarashima Terrorists" part 1	Falk	Barry	7
	"The Old Bandar"	Avenell	Eralp
25	"The Train Gang"	Avenell	Spadari	6
26	"Death in the East End, Part 1: The College Ghost"	Tierres	Bess	5
27	"The Ghost Ship"	Tierres	Wilhelmsson, Eralp	3
	"The River of Horrors"	Tierres	Wilhelmsson, Eralp
29	"The Tarashima Terrorists" part 2	Falk	Barry	2
30	"Touganda's Secret"	Worker	Leppänen	0
Total:				494

Notes

• The stories "The Escaped Convicts" and "Sunken Treasure" were considered as one story for this vote.
• Two parts of the story "The Tarashima Terrorists" were considered as two stories for this vote.
• Four The Phantom Legends 1-page stories that were published during 1987 were not eligible to vote for: "Magicians", "The Story of Devil", "The Phantom Trail", and "T".

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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" | 2023: "Ku Klux Klan" | 2024: "The Singh Raiders" | 2025: "The Last Viking"