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Lord of the Jungle
Lord of the Jungle | |
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Produced for: | Fantomen 4/1999 |
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# of pgs: | 27 |
Writer: | Claes Reimerthi and Kjell T. Johnsen |
Artist: | Heiner Bade |
Original colorist: | Times Graphics Singapore |
Producer: | Egmont Serieförlaget |
"Lord of the Jungle" is a 1999 Team Fantomen story, written by Claes Reimerthi and Kjell T. Johnsen, with art by Heiner Bade.
Plot summary
In 1899, The Jungle Patrol has a fresh recruit, Edgar, who fails at most tasks but the patrol's deputy commander want to give him a chance since he is a young aspiring author. Edgar is given the task of accompanying an expedition from the University of Boston into the jungle to investigate local folklore of a white man in the jungle who goes by the name of The Phantom. The 18th Phantom monitor the expedition closely and after it suffers an attack by Wasaka warriors he goes into the Wasaka village to free the expedition members. The events serve as inspiration to the author's first success with the first novel about Tarzan.
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- unnamed colonel of The Jungle Patrol
- Sergeant Seamus O'Rourke, JP
- Nelson, JP
- Professor Digmore
- Gustave, scientist
- Floyd, JP
- Stewart, JP
- Hannibal, monkey
Real-life characters
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, JP
- Emma Hulbert (mentioned only as Emma)
Fictional characters
- Tarzan (mentioned only)
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Australia
- "Lord of the Jungle", The Phantom #1225 (1999)
Denmark
- "Junglens herre", Fantomet #365 (1999)
Finland
- "Viidakon valtias", Mustanaamio 2/1999
India
- "Lord of the Jungle", The Phantom #7 (2001)
- "Lord of the Jungle", The Phantom Action Adventure Series: Tiger Girl / Lord of the Jungle (2001)
- "Lord of the Jungle", The Adventures of the Ghost who Walks #5 (2003)
- "Lord of the Jungle", The Phantom #5 (2003)
- "Lord of the Jungle", The Adventures of the Ghost who Walks: Tiger Girl / Lord of the Jungle (2007)
- "Lord of the Jungle", Destroyer of Evil (2007)
- "Lord of the Jungle", "Tiger Girl" and Lord of the Jungle (2010)
- "Lord of the Jungle", Destroyer of Evil (2010)
Norway
- "Jungelens herre", Fantomet 4/1999
- "Jungelens herre", Krønikebok #18 (2004)
Sweden
- "Djungelns herre", Fantomen 4/1999
- "Djungelns herre", Fantomen Krönika 2/2005
- "Djungelns herre", Fantomen 25-26/2022