Fantomen 2012
In the year 2012, a total of 19 issues of Swedish comic book Fantomen was published.
Overview
2012 continued the trend of reducing the number of actual issues published in favor of "double issues". In total, 19 issues were published of which 12 were regular issues of 68 pages and 7 were "double issues" of 132 pages. The double issues were on sale for four weeks, while the other issues were on sale for two weeks.
The first issue of 2012 was released on December 22, 2011. The corresponding issue of Fantomet was released on December 19, 2011, and was numbered as the last issue of 2011 instead.
Longtime editor Ulf Granberg retired during the year. Granberg was editor (or chief editor, while others held the title "editor") of 1001 Fantomen issues during 40 years, from Fantomen 1/1972 to Fantomen 9/2012. He was succeeded by Mikael Sol.
Promotion
An in-house ad was published in various comic magazines published by Egmont Kärnan.
Covers
The main cover artists of the year were Rolf Gohs, and the team Sal Velluto and Eugenio Mattozzi (4 covers each). Other cover artists were Kari Leppänen (3 covers), Joan Boix (2 covers), Heiner Bade (2 covers), Felmang and Germano Ferri (2 covers), Felmang and Alex Biffignandi (1 cover), and Hans Lindahl (1 cover).
Cover gallery
Contents
Phantom stories
All but one issue included new Team Fantomen stories as main stories, a total of 18 new stories. One issue included a Fratelli Spada story that had previously been published in Fantomen as main story. Several Falk & Barry Sunday stories appeared as back-up stories throughout the year, one of which had never been published in Fantomen before. Daily strip stories by Falk, Moore and/or McCoy were published in the double issues. For the first time, they were printed unedited (apart from translation) in Fantomen. To accomodate the format of the strip, these stories were printed sideways with three strips per page.
Previously unpublished Team Fantomen stories
Previously unpublished newspaper stories
| Issue | Title | Writer | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Deadliest Animals in the Jungle" | Falk | Barry |
Previously published newspaper stories
| Issue | Title | Writer | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Eastern Dark" | Falk | Barry | |
| "The Golden Beach of Keela-Wee" | Falk | Barry | |
| "Diana Aviatrix Lost" | Falk | Moore | |
| "The Phantom's Treasure" | Falk | Moore | |
| "Lago the Lake God" | Falk | McCoy | |
| "The Third Phantom" | Falk | Barry | |
| "The Wild Girl" | Falk | McCoy | |
| "The Whispering Grove" | Falk | Barry | |
| "Princess Valerie" | Falk | Moore, McCoy | |
| "The Forest Giants" | Falk | Barry | |
| "Queen Asta of Trondelay" | Falk | McCoy |
Previously published Fratelli Spada stories
| Issue | Title | Writer | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Strange Girl" | Ferri | Ferri |
Other comics
- "Bernard Prince" by Greg and Dany (issues 9, 13, 14-15, 17, 18-19, and 24)
- "De utvalda" by Nils Lindberg and Gösta Lindwall (issues 20 and 21)
- "Herman Hedning" by Jonas Darnell (issues 1, 2-3, 4, 5, 6-7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14-15, 16, 17, 18-19, 20, 22-23, 24, and 25-26)
- "Jerome K. Jerome Bloche" by Alan Dodier (issues 1 and 2-3)
- "Johnny Hazard" by Frank Robbins (issues 9, 12, and 16)
- "Kriss de Valnor" by Yves Sente and Giulio de Vita (issues 4 and 5)
- "Latigo" by Stan Lynde (issue 8 and 13)
- "Louve" by Yannick le Pennetier and Roman Surzhenko (issues 6-7 and 8)
- "Thorgal" by Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosiński (issues 2-3, 10-11, 14-15, 18-19, 22-23, and 25-26)
Supplements
Fantomen 1 included a publishing schedule poster and Fantomen 16 included a poster of Best Fantomen cover 2011.
Publishing schedule poster. 
Best cover 2011 poster.
