Best story 2017 (Sweden)

The Best story 2017 vote was held in Fantomen 2-3/2018 and the results were presented in Fantomen 9/2018.

Results

Place	Title	Writer	Artist	Votes
1	"Farewell to the Deep Woods‎"	DePaul	Manley	17
2	"Butterfly Man"	Reimerthi	Spadari	13
3	"Black Dagger, Part 2: The Curse of Black Annis"	Reimerthi	Leppänen	11
4	"Shadows over Spyglass"	Reimerthi	Boix	10
5	"The Stone Carving People"	Avenell	Bade	9
	"Pirates of the Red Dragon, Part 1: Princess Sin"	Worker	Bess
	"The Unknown Commander, Part 1‎"	Worker	Bess
8	"Secret of the Arctic"	Worker	Bess	8
	"The Ghost of Thanatos"	Reimerthi	Bade
	"Black Dagger, Part 1: The Rag Doll"	Reimerthi	Leppänen
11	"The Snake Girl"	Lundström	Vallvé	7
	"The Karabasan League"	Madden	Boix
	"Secret of the Cave Island"	Worker	Bess
14	"The Avenger from the Sea"	Worker	Bess	6
	"The Wiseguy"	DePaul	Beatty
16	"Frisco Frenzy"	Rassy	Bade	5
	"Pirates of the Red Dragon, Part 2: Deadly Passion"	Worker	Bess
	"The Unknown Commander, Part 2"	Worker	Bess
19	"The 22nd Phantom, Part 3: The Man in the Shadows"	Reimerthi	Ruiz, Martínez	4
	"Lost at Sea, Part 2: The Singing Statues"	Reimerthi	Spadari
	"The Challenge"	DePaul	Ryan
22	"Lost at Sea, Part 1: The Island of Mysteries"	Reimerthi	Spadari	3
	"The Mona Lisa Caper"	Worker	Vallvé
	"The Nuclear Pirates"	Worker	Bess
	"The Man with Six Fingers"	Reimerthi	Saviuk
	"Red Zone"	Bishop	Ruiz
	"The Storm"	Worker	Bess
	"Pirates of the Red Dragon, Part 3: Sentenced to Doom"	Worker	Bess
29	"Evil Forces"	Worker	Vallvé	2
30	"The Baronkhan Sedition"	DePaul	Ryan, Manley	1
	"The Skeleton Coast"	Worker	Bess
	"The Ghost Cliff"	Worker	Bess
Total:				228

Notes

• Three short The World of the Phantom stories that were published during 2017 were not eligible to vote for.

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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"