Best story 1999 (Norway)

The Best story 1999 vote was held in Fantomet 1/2000, and the results were presented in Fantomet 10/2000.

Results for the best story

Place	Title	Writer	Artist	Votes
1	"Devil's Story"	Avenell	Bess	38
2	"The Phantom's Ring"	Falk	McCoy	18
3	"The Assassination of President Lincoln"	DePaul	Spadari	15
4	"Alliance of the Golden Ox"	Reimerthi	Spadari	14
5	"Lord of the Jungle"	Johnsen, Reimerthi	Bade	13
6	"The Black Phantom"	Worker	Felmang	12
7	"The Monument"	DePaul	Boix	11
8	"Live Cargo"	Reimerthi	Spadari	10
	"The Halloween Gang"	Reimerthi	Lindahl
10	"The Castle of Darkness"	Reimerthi	Boix	9
11	"The Temple"	Raab	Boix	8
12	"The Voodoo Menace"	Reimerthi	Bade	7
13	"The Montbar Treasure"	Reimerthi	Boix	6
14	"The Doomsday Sect"	Raab	Spadari	5
15	The Harbourmaster's Secret"	DePaul	Spadari	3
	"The Freedom Trail"	Goodall	Felmang
	"The Lethal Science"	Reimerthi	Lindahl
	"Purple Killer"	DePaul	Felmang
	"The Barbary Pirates"	Worker	Cruz
20	"Messenger of Evil"	DePaul	Bade	2
	"Nautilus"	Longstreet	Felmang
	"A Deadly Game"	Reimerthi	Cruz
	"Mystery of the Crypt"	Reimerthi	Boix
	"The Gold Buddha"	Reimerthi	Cruz
	"The Traitor"	Lindahl	Lindahl
26	"The Well of Time"	Lindahl	Boix	1
Total:				204

Notes

• Seven daily stories that were published during 1999 were not eligible to vote for: "The Hydra", "The Art Thieves", "The Masked Ball", "The Jungle Home", "Rex, the Missing Heir", "The Gladiator", and "The Missing Daddy".
• Four Sunday stories that were published in serialized form during 1999 were not eligible to vote for: "Treasure of the Skull Cave", "The Astronaut and the Pirates", "Old Baldy", and "The Giant Bird of Gandor".

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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"