Best story 2024 (Sweden)

The Best story 2024 vote was held in Fantomen 2-3/2025 and the results were presented in Fantomen 10-11/2025.

This year, the voting procedure changed so voters could give 3, 2 or 1 points to three different stories. They could also give a -1 vote to a fourth story, but these were omitted in the published results. According to the editorial staff the minus votes did not affect the order of stories in any significant way.

Results

Place	Title	Writer	Artist	3 points	2 points	1 point	Total points
1	"The Singh Raiders"	Eriksson	Rodriguez	17	9	14	83
2	"Curse of the Granite God, Part 1"	Goodall	Leppänen	14	16	5	79
3	"The Man Who Could Not Die"	Kharelli	Bess	13	12	12	75
4	"The Demon's Image"	DePaul	Bade	14	9	7	67
5	"Giovanna"	Holm	Giordano	15	8	5	66
6	"Hero's Death Sentence"	Darell	Leppänen	11	9	10	61
7	"Curse of the Granite God, Part 2"	Goodall	Leppänen	3	15	10	49
8	"The Thousand Tigers"	Hartler, Magnusson	Vallvé	10	5	6	46
	"The Message"	Worker	Leppänen
10	"The Killer and the Ghost, Part 1"	Andersson	Saviuk	6	10	5	43
11	"The Mark of the Phantom"	Bergkvist	Canelo	9	2	8	39
12	"The Lights of Lake Bawkama"	Runberg	Ordon	10	3	2	38
13	"The Treasure of the Barracuda"	Worker	Vallvé	8	4	5	37
14	"Broken Tusk"	Bishop	Spay, Atkins	6	7	3	35
15	"Phantom's End"	DePaul	Manley, Blevins, Cohn	4	7	4	30
16	"The New Clothes of the Ghost"	Habinc	Ruiz	3	9	1	28
	"Masks of the Phantom"	Wærness, Collins, Knutsen	Collins	4	5	6
	"The Train Gang"	Avenell	Spadari	5	4	5
19	"The Dagger of the Child King"	Boix	Boix	5	4	4	27
20	"The Killer and the Ghost, Part 2"	Andersson	Saviuk	0	8	9	25
21	"The Journey Home"	DePaul	Manley, Blevins, Weigel	3	3	8	23
22	"Dangerous Waters"	Frenz	Ordon	2	6	3	21
	"Stray Dogs"	Habinc	Nie	2	4	7
	"Dungeons Undone"	DePaul	Manley	4	3	3
25	"Breaking the Circle"	Eralp	Eralp	5	1	3	20
26	"Pirates of the Abbey"	Andersson	Caracuzzo	3	2	6	19
	"The Demon"	Worker	Vallvé	3	3	4
	"Guardian of the Eastern Dark"	Falk	Barry	1	3	10
29	"Return of the Eastern Dark - Shameful Trade"	Munro	Picciotto	1	3	7	16
30	"The Snake Ring"	Darell	Leppänen	1	3	4	13
31	"The War Mongers"	Reimerthi	Nolan	2	2	2	12
32	"The Slaves"	Mennigen	Tafalla	1	2	4	11
33	"The Garden of Evil"	Eralp	Eralp	1	2	1	8
34	"The Breakout"	DePaul	Manley	1	1	0	5
35	"The Kidnappers"	Falk, Falk	Olesen, Fredericks	0	2	0	4
36	"The Blackmailers of Paris"	Mennigen	Tafalla	0	0	0	0
Total:				197	191	189	1162

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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"