Five Days of the Dragon Chapter 2

Five Days of the Dragon
Chapter 2
Produced for:	The Phantom Annual #1 (2007)
# of pgs:	10
Writer:	Tony Bedard
Artist:	Allan Goldman
Original colorist:	Patrick Williams
Producer:	Moonstone Books
Preceded by:	Five Days of the Dragon Chapter 1
Followed by:	Five Days of the Dragon Chapter 3

"Five Days of the Dragon, Chapter 2" is a 2007 Moonstone Phantom story by Tony Bedard and Allan Goldman.

Plot synopsis

The story takes place in May, 1782 during the days of the 11th Phantom.

During the American Revolutionary War, the British navy keeps prisoners on board the HMS Jersey. Arune Singh of the Singh Brotherhood is in alliance with the ship's Captain Corcoran, and discovers that one of the prisoners is a Chieftain from Bangalla in possession of a part of the Jade Dragon.

The 11th Phantom enters the ship, disguised as a British soldier. He rescues the imprisoned Bangalla Chieftain along with the rest of the prisoners, who fight the British soldiers for their freedom.

After swimming ashore, the Chieftain dies. He had been sent out by the 10th Phantom to search for pieces of the jade dragon, and when he was imprisoned he swallowed the fragment he found to keep it safe.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• The 11th Phantom
• The 10th Phantom (mentioned)

One-time characters

• Doctor Singh
• Unnamed Bangallan Chieftain

Real-life characters

• General Washington (mentioned)
• King George (mentioned)
• The Devil (mentioned)
• Dante (mentioned)

Locations

• USA
  • New York
    • Manhattan (mentioned)
    • Brooklyn
      • Wallabout Bay
• India (mentioned)
• Bangalla (mentioned)
• The South China Sea (mentioned)
• Somalia
  • Mogadishu (mentioned)

Organizations

• The Redcoats
• The Singh Brotherhood

Ships

• Corcoran's Man-o-war
• The H.M.S. Jersey

Items

• One of five pieces of the Jade Dragon
• The Phantom's Dragoon pistol

Behind the scenes

• The story takes place in 1782, which according to other stories would make it in the days of the 12th Phantom.
• References are made to a battle between the 11th Phantom and the Singh Brotherhood five years earlier, where the Singh invaded Mogadishu backed by Captain Corcoran.
• According to this story, the 11th Phantom had lost his left eye, and his wife left him after the battle of Mogadishu when he had "grown more devoted to vengeance than [his] family".
• Captain Corcoran is a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.
• The Phantom appears in period appropriate boots, belt, sword, and sidearms.
• One of the Redcoats refers to the Phantom as "the Ghost that Talks". He is corrected by the Phantom.
• It is suggested that the Phantom's wife left him, and as a result he rededicated himself to his sacred mission. Later the Phantom writes that this is a warning to future Phantoms not to lose yourself in your mission, not to turn your back on hearth and home "on the things that keep us human", lest you be reduced to a ghost who walks.
• The Phantom is called the "Guardian of Bangalla".
• It appears that the Bangallan Chieftain calls the Phantom "Bwana".
• The reference to Dante is the reference to his Divine Comedy.
• The Phantom's Dragoon pistols appear to be Dragons.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "Five Days of the Dragon, Chapter 2", The Phantom #1962 (2024)

Greece

• "Οι 5 Ημέρες Του Δράκου, μέρος Β" (romanized as "Oi 5 Imeres Tou Drakou, meros B"), Blek #2 (2019)

USA

• "Five Days of the Dragon Chapter 2", The Phantom Annual #1 (2007)