Best story 2021 (Sweden)

The Best story 2021 vote was held in Fantomen 2-3/2022 and the results were presented in Fantomen 10-11/2022.

Results

Place	Title	Writer	Artist	Votes
1	"Devil's Story"	Avenell	Bess	30
2	"The True Singh Brotherhood"	Eriksson	Ordon	22
3	"Requiem"	Andersson	Cavalcanti	19
4	"The Founding of the Jungle Patrol"	Falk	Barry	16
5	"Nosferatu's Revenge"	Reimerthi	Ordon	15
6	"Diana in the Jungle Patrol"	Knutsson	Vallvé	9
7	"Attack on the Jungle Hospital"	Reimerthi	Ordon	7
	"In the Claws of the Vultures"	Reimerthi	Ordon
	"The Last Emperor"	Worker	Cruz
10	"Of the Same Blood"	Bishop	Spadari	6
11	"Evil Lurks in the Night"	Andersson	Boix	5
	"The Toad Men"	Falk	McCoy
	"The Street Predators"	Carlsson	Spay
14	"Easy Money"	Tierres	Bess	4
	"Hero Complex"	Munro	Weigel
	"The Hanta Witch‎‎"	Falk	Barry
17	"A Web of Lies"	Reimerthi	Leppänen	3
	"The Llongo Forest"	DePaul	Manley
19	"The Mystery of the Island of Dogs"	Falk	Barry	2
	"Rak-Ah's Star"	Carlsson	Spay
	"The Name"	Falk	Barry
	"The Diamond Mystery"	Falk	Eralp
23	"The Adventures of Lucy Cary"	Falk	Barry	1
	"The Beach"	Falk	Barry
	"The Rogue Elephant"	Falk	Barry
	"The Elephant's Graveyard"	Eralp	Eralp
	"Children of the Fog"	Darell	Bess
	"The Spy Ship‎"	DePaul	Weigel
	"The Phantom is Everywhere"	DePaul	Beatty, Weigel
	"The Fencing Master"	Falk	Eralp
	"The Little Detective Who Disappeared"	DePaul	Weigel
	"The Phantom Lion"	DePaul	Ryan
33	"The Goddess of Death"	Falk	Eralp	0
	"The Gold of Destiny"	Falk	Eralp
	"The Mystery of the Arrow Ring"	Falk	Eralp
	"The Dolphins"	Falk	Barry
	"The Rhodian Column"	DePaul	Manley
	"Unfinished Business"	DePaul	Manley
	"The Curse"	Darell	Eralp
	"Floating Borders"	Reimerthi	Leppänen
	"The Shoplifters"	Falk	McCoy
	"The Free Avar Front"	DePaul	Weigel
	"The Ghost Wall"	DePaul	Olesen, Williams
	"The Halloween Kidnappers"	Reimerthi	Olesen, Williams
	"The Grove of the Sleeping Giant"	Falk	McCoy
Total:				189

Note

• One The World of the Phantom short story that was published during 2021 was not eligible to vote for: "Mopsy's Story".

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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"