Sunday stories

This is a list of stories originally published in American newspapers during Sundays.

The Lee Falk era

The Moore, McCoy and Lignante years

#	Title	Writer	Artist	Start	End
1	"The League of Lost Men"	Falk	Moore	28 May 1939	15 Oct 1939
2	"The Precious Cargo of Colonel Winn"	Falk	Moore	22 Oct 1939	10 Mar 1940
3	"The Fire Goddess"	Falk	Moore	17 Mar 1940	21 Jul 1940
4	"The Beachcomber"	Falk	Moore	28 Jul 1940	29 Dec 1940
5	"The Saboteurs"	Falk	Moore	5 Jan 1941	23 Feb 1941
6	"The Return of the Sky Band"	Falk	Moore	2 Mar 1941	22 Feb 1942
7	"The Impostor"	Falk	Moore	1 Mar 1942	11 Oct 1942
8	"Castle in the Clouds"	Falk	Moore, McCoy	18 Oct 1942	18 Apr 1943
9	"The Ismani Cannibals"	Falk	McCoy	25 Apr 1943	4 Jul 1943
10	"Hamid the Terrible"	Falk	McCoy	11 Jul 1943	25 Jun 1944
11	"The Childhood of the Phantom"	Falk	McCoy	2 Jul 1944	7 Jan 1945
12	"The Golden Princess"	Falk	McCoy	14 Jan 1945	24 Jun 1945
13	"The Strange Fisherman"	Falk	McCoy	1 Jul 1945	2 Dec 1945
14	"Queen Pera the Perfect"	Falk	Moore	9 Dec 1945	17 Mar 1946
15	"King of Beasts"	Falk	Moore	24 Mar 1946	4 Aug 1946
16	"The Scarlet Sorceress"	Falk	Moore, McCoy	11 Aug 1946	22 Dec 1946
17	"The 12 Tasks"	Falk	Moore, McCoy	29 Dec 1946	29 Jun 1947
18	"The Dragon God"	Falk	Moore	6 Jul 1947	16 Nov 1947
19	"The Marshall Sisters"	Falk	Moore, McCoy	23 Nov 1947	16 May 1948
20	"The Phantom Trophy"	Falk	Moore	23 May 1948	5 Sep 1948
21	"The Haunted Castle"	Falk	Moore, McCoy	12 Sep 1948	13 Feb 1949
22	"Fathers and Sons"	Falk	McCoy	20 Feb 1949	24 Apr 1949
23	"The Flirtatious Princess"	Falk	McCoy	1 May 1949	21 Aug 1949
24	"The Thuggees"	Falk	McCoy	28 Aug 1949	19 Feb 1950
25	"The Ape Idol of the Durugu"	Falk	McCoy	26 Feb 1950	7 May 1950
26	"The Mysterious Passenger"	Falk	McCoy	14 May 1950	16 Jul 1950
27	"Jungle King"	Falk	McCoy	23 Jul 1950	22 Oct 1950
28	"The Phantom's Ring"	Falk	McCoy	29 Oct 1950	10 Jun 1951
29	"The Rope People"	Falk	McCoy	17 Jun 1951	4 Nov 1951
30	"Tale of Devil"	Falk	McCoy	11 Nov 1951	23 Mar 1952
31	"The 'Copter Pirates"	Falk	McCoy	30 Mar 1952	13 Jul 1952
32	"The Female Phantom"	Falk	McCoy	20 Jul 1952	12 Oct 1952
33	"Diana and the Bank Robbers"	Falk	McCoy	19 Oct 1952	1 Feb 1953
34	"The Chain"	Falk	McCoy	8 Feb 1953	24 May 1953
35	"Madcap Miriam"	Falk	McCoy	31 May 1953	18 Oct 1953
36	"The Imaginary Playmate"	Falk	McCoy	25 Oct 1953	31 Jan 1954
37	"The Belt"	Falk	McCoy	7 Feb 1954	6 Jun 1954
38	"The Master Spy"	Falk	McCoy	13 Jun 1954	10 Oct 1954
39	"Alexander's Cup"	Falk	McCoy	17 Oct 1954	27 Feb 1955
40	"The Gibs Brothers"	Falk	McCoy	6 Mar 1955	3 Apr 1955
41	"The Crescent Cult"	Falk	McCoy	10 Apr 1955	7 Aug 1955
42	"The Horned Star Demons"	Falk	McCoy	14 Aug 1955	6 Nov 1955
43	"A Proper Husband"	Falk	McCoy	13 Nov 1955	12 Feb 1956
44	"The Jungle Tourneys"	Falk	McCoy	19 Feb 1956	20 May 1956
45	"Pirate Day"	Falk	McCoy	27 May 1956	19 Aug 1956
46	"The Rattle"	Falk	McCoy	26 Aug 1956	13 Jan 1957
47	"Danglor, International Bank Thief"	Falk	McCoy	20 Jan 1957	7 Apr 1957
48	"A Lesson for Prince Orq"	Falk	McCoy	14 Apr 1957	18 Aug 1957
49	"The Frameup"	Falk	McCoy	25 Aug 1957	22 Dec 1957
50	"The Monster of Green Valley"	Falk	McCoy	29 Dec 1957	27 Jul 1958
51	"The Plant God of the Massau"	Falk	McCoy	3 Aug 1958	21 Dec 1958
52	"A Tale of the Good Mark"	Falk	McCoy	28 Dec 1958	14 Jun 1959
53	"The Childhood of the Phantom"	Falk	McCoy	21 Jun 1959	3 Jan 1960
54	"The River Gang"	Falk	McCoy	10 Jan 1960	22 May 1960
55	"The Honeymooners"	Falk	McCoy	29 May 1960	23 Oct 1960
56	"The Goggle-Eye Pirates"	Falk	McCoy	30 Oct 1960	26 Mar 1961
57	"Fluffy"	Falk	McCoy	2 Apr 1961	13 Aug 1961
58	"The Limper"	Falk	McCoy, Infantino, Lignante	20 Aug 1961	29 Oct 1961
59	"Queen Samaris XII"	Falk	Lignante	5 Nov 1961	13 May 1962

The Sy Barry years

#	Title	Writer	Artist	Start	End
60	"Treasure of the Skull Cave"	Falk	Barry	20 May 1962	28 Oct 1962
61	"The Astronaut and the Pirates"	Falk	Barry	4 Nov 1962	12 May 1963
62	"Old Baldy"	Falk	Barry	19 May 1963	15 Dec 1963
63	"The Giant Bird of Gandor"	Falk	Barry	22 Dec 1963	28 Jun 1964
64	"The Founding of the Jungle Patrol"	Falk	Barry	5 Jul 1964	24 Jan 1965
65	"The Great Web of Spidera"	Falk	Barry	31 Jan 1965	27 Jun 1965
66	"Mystery of Wamba Falls Inn"	Falk	Barry	4 Jul 1965	24 Oct 1965
67	"The Veiled Lady"	Falk	Barry	31 Oct 1965	8 May 1966
68	"Rex King"	Falk	Barry	15 May 1966	11 Dec 1966
69	"The Golden Sands of Keela-Wee"	Falk	Barry	18 Dec 1966	2 Apr 1967
70	"The Lions of Kukhan"	Falk	Barry	9 Apr 1967	6 Aug 1967
71	"The Super-Jet Gang"	Falk	Barry	13 Aug 1967	26 Nov 1967
72	"Strangers at Keela-Wee"	Falk	Barry	3 Dec 1967	24 Mar 1968
73	"The Little Ones"	Falk	Barry	31 Mar 1968	11 Aug 1968
74	"The Black Gold Pirates"	Falk	Barry	18 Aug 1968	29 Dec 1968
75	"Walker's Table"	Falk	Barry	5 Jan 1969	20 Apr 1969
76	"The Hijackers"	Falk	Barry	27 Apr 1969	3 Aug 1969
77	"The Missing Link"	Falk	Barry	10 Aug 1969	7 Dec 1969
78	"The Golden People"	Falk	Barry	14 Dec 1969	29 Mar 1970
79	"The Dolphins"	Falk	Barry	5 Apr 1970	14 Jun 1970
80	"The Beach"	Falk	Barry	21 Jun 1970	13 Sep 1970
81	"Alexander's Diamond Cup"	Falk	Barry	20 Sep 1970	7 Feb 1971
82	"The Tale of the Gooley-Gooley Witch"	Falk	Barry	14 Feb 1971	9 May 1971
83	"The Stolen Trophy"	Falk	Barry	16 May 1971	1 Aug 1971
84	"The Wig"	Falk	Barry	8 Aug 1971	31 Oct 1971
85	"Tale of the Good Mark"	Falk	Barry	7 Nov 1971	6 Feb 1972
86	"The Smugglers"	Falk	Barry	13 Feb 1972	14 May 1972
87	"The Massacre"	Falk	Barry	21 May 1972	27 Aug 1972
88	"The Bike Gang"	Falk	Barry	3 Sep 1972	5 Nov 1972
89	"The Hawk Master"	Falk	Barry	12 Nov 1972	11 Feb 1973
90	"The Sky Divers"	Falk	Barry	18 Feb 1973	27 May 1973
91	"Rex and the Little People"	Falk	Barry	3 Jun 1973	16 Sep 1973
92	"The Golden Wood"	Falk	Barry	23 Sep 1973	23 Dec 1973
93	"Phantom Treasure"	Falk	Barry	30 Dec 1973	9 Jun 1974
94	"Tale of Joomba"	Falk	Barry	16 Jun 1974	29 Dec 1974
95	"Little Girl"	Falk	Barry	5 Jan 1975	11 May 1975
96	"The First Phantom"	Falk	Barry	18 May 1975	10 Aug 1975
97	"The Golden Beach"	Falk	Barry	17 Aug 1975	21 Dec 1975
98	"The Blue Giant"	Falk	Barry	28 Dec 1975	11 Apr 1976
99	"Joonkar and the Slavers"	Falk	Barry	18 Apr 1976	29 Aug 1976
100	"The Stolen Ring"	Falk	Barry	5 Sep 1976	19 Dec 1976
101	"The Swamp Dragon"	Falk	Barry	26 Dec 1976	17 Apr 1977
102	"The Hunters"	Falk	Barry	24 Apr 1977	7 Aug 1977
103	"The Delta Pirates"	Falk	Barry	14 Aug 1977	23 Oct 1977
104	"The Wedding of the Phantom"	Falk	Barry	30 Oct 1977	5 Feb 1978
105	"The Three Bandits"	Falk	Barry	12 Feb 1978	16 Apr 1978
106	"What's Wrong with Hzz?"	Falk	Barry	16 Apr 1978	23 Jul 1978
107	"The Star of Bangalla"	Falk	Barry	30 Jul 1978	5 Nov 1978
108	"The Heirs"	Falk	Barry	12 Nov 1978	20 May 1979
109	"Jungle Olympics"	Falk	Barry	27 May 1979	2 Sep 1979
110	"The Name"	Falk	Barry	9 Sep 1979	9 Dec 1979
111	"The Vault of Missing Men"	Falk	Barry	16 Dec 1979	1 Jun 1980
112	"The Uninvited Visitors"	Falk	Barry	8 Jun 1980	16 Nov 1980
113	"Crook's Haven"	Falk	Barry	23 Nov 1980	24 May 1981
114	"Crazy Louie's Story"	Falk	Barry	31 May 1981	8 Nov 1981
115	"Kit and the Little People"	Falk	Barry	15 Nov 1981	11 Apr 1982
116	"The Terrorists"	Falk	Barry	18 Apr 1982	5 Sep 1982
117	"The Missing Link Family"	Falk	Barry	12 Sep 1982	16 Jan 1983
118	"Mysterious Karapura"	Falk	Barry	23 Jan 1983	31 Jul 1983
119	"The Eastern Dark"	Falk	Barry	7 Aug 1983	29 Jan 1984
120	"The Golden Beach of Keela-Wee"	Falk	Barry	5 Feb 1984	6 May 1984
121	"The Deadliest Animals in the Jungle"	Falk	Barry	13 May 1984	19 Aug 1984
122	"The Third Phantom"	Falk	Barry	26 Aug 1984	17 Feb 1985
123	"The Whispering Grove"	Falk	Barry	24 Feb 1985	9 Jun 1985
124	"The Forest Giants"	Falk	Barry	16 Jun 1985	5 Jan 1986
125	"Phantom Head Peak"	Falk	Barry	12 Jan 1986	27 Apr 1986
126	"Sunken Treasure"	Falk	Barry	4 May 1986	31 Aug 1986
127	"The Escaped Convicts"	Falk	Barry	7 Sep 1986	21 Dec 1986
128	"Queen Amaza's Mate"	Falk	Barry	28 Dec 1986	28 Jun 1987
129	"The Twins' 8th Birthday"	Falk	Barry	5 Jul 1987	27 Sep 1987
130	"The Irrondi and the Great Ones"	Falk	Barry	4 Oct 1987	10 Apr 1988
131	"The Bride of Xali"	Falk	Barry	17 Apr 1988	17 Jul 1988
132	"Exodus of the Little People"	Falk	Barry	24 Jul 1988	26 Feb 1989
133	"Death from the Sky"	Falk	Barry	5 Mar 1989	23 Jul 1989
134	"Captain Amazon - Pirate Queen"	Falk	Barry	30 Jul 1989	7 Jan 1990
135	"The Eastern Dark at Janorra"	Falk	Barry	14 Jan 1990	13 May 1990
136	"Return of the Thuggees"	Falk	Barry	20 May 1990	11 Aug 1991
137	"The Fourth Son"	Falk	Barry	18 Aug 1991	17 May 1992
138	"Tiger, Tiger"	Falk	Barry	24 May 1992	6 Dec 1992
139	"How The Phantom Saved The Earth"	Falk	Barry	13 Dec 1992	18 Jul 1993
140	"The Jungle Olympics"	Falk	Barry	25 Jul 1993	16 Jan 1994
141	"The Isle of Death"	Falk	Barry	23 Jan 1994	3 Jul 1994
142	"Phantom World"	Falk	Barry, Olesen, Doescher	10 Jul 1994	4 Dec 1994

The George Olesen years

#	Title	Writer	Artist	Start	End
143	"Battle of the Jungle Boys"	Falk	Doescher, Olesen, Fredericks	11 Dec 1994	17 Sep 1995
144	"Queen Medusa"	Falk	Olesen, Fredericks	24 Sep 1995	26 May 1996
145	"The Lookout"	Falk	Olesen, Fredericks	2 Jun 1996	24 Nov 1996
146	"Dig"	Falk	Olesen, Fredericks	1 Dec 1996	24 Aug 1997
147	"Waterman"	Falk	Olesen, Fredericks	31 Aug 1997	19 Apr 1998
148	"The Vanished Village"	Falk	Olesen, Fredericks	26 Apr 1998	27 Sep 1998
149	"The Floradon Mystery"	Falk	Olesen, Fredericks	4 Oct 1998	14 Feb 1999
150	"The Kidnappers"	Falk, Falk	Olesen, Fredericks	21 Feb 1999	15 Aug 1999
151	"The Wharf Rats"	Falk	Olesen, Fredericks	22 Aug 1999	26 Dec 1999

The post-Falk era

#	Title	Writer	Artist	Start	End
152	"The Shipwreckers"	Avenell, Reimerthi	Olesen, Fredericks	2 Jan 2000	30 Jul 2000
153	"Woduro's Secret"	Reimerthi	Nolan	6 Aug 2000	4 Mar 2001
154	"The Lion's Head Tamarine"	Reimerthi	Nolan	11 Mar 2001	7 Oct 2001
155	"The War Mongers"	Reimerthi	Nolan	14 Oct 2001	7 Apr 2002
156	"The Briefcase"	Reimerthi	Nolan	14 Apr 2002	29 Sep 2002
157	"The Snake Goddess's Island"	Reimerthi	Nolan	6 Oct 2002	30 Mar 2003
158	"Terror in Mawitaan"	DePaul	Nolan	6 Apr 2003	28 Sep 2003
159	"The Sinbad Stone"	Nolan	Nolan	5 Oct 2003	28 Mar 2004
160	"The Viking Fortress Mystery"	DePaul	Nolan	4 Apr 2004	26 Sep 2004
161	"The Iron Python"	DePaul	Nolan	3 Oct 2004	27 Mar 2005
162	"The Prince Rex Conspiracy"	DePaul	Nolan	3 Apr 2005	25 Sep 2005
163	"On the Trail of an Assassin"	DePaul	Nolan	2 Oct 2005	26 Mar 2006
164	"The Fire Peak Tribe"	DePaul	Nolan	2 Apr 2006	24 Sep 2006
165	"The Time Skip"	DePaul	Nolan	1 Oct 2006	25 Mar 2007
166	"The Ossuary"	DePaul	Ryan	1 Apr 2007	23 Sep 2007
167	"Plutonium Pirates"	DePaul	Ryan	30 Sep 2007	23 Mar 2008
168	"The Accursed Land"	DePaul	Ryan	30 Mar 2008	21 Sep 2008
169	"The Jungle Lesson"	DePaul	Ryan	28 Sep 2008	22 Mar 2009
170	"The Love Triangle"	DePaul	Ryan	29 Mar 2009	20 Sep 2009
171	"The Lost Kingdom of Avaria"	DePaul	Ryan	27 Sep 2009	21 Mar 2010
172	"The Dirty Half-Dozen"	DePaul	Ryan	28 Mar 2010	19 Sep 2010
173	"The Return of Colonel Weeks"	DePaul	Ryan	26 Sep 2010	20 Mar 2011
174	"The Nomad"	DePaul	Ryan, Barreto	27 Mar 2011	18 Sep 2011
175	"The Shadows of Rune Noble"	DePaul	Barreto, Ryan, Beatty	25 Sep 2011	1 Apr 2012
176	"The Power House Gang"	DePaul	Beatty	8 Apr 2012	30 Sep 2012
177	"Revenge in Rhodia"	DePaul	Beatty	7 Oct 2012	14 Apr 2013
178	"Mandrake's Bon Voyage"	DePaul	Beatty	21 Apr 2013	24 Nov 2013
179	"Death Stalks the 5th Phantom"	DePaul	Beatty	1 Dec 2013	25 May 2014
180	"The Ghost Story"	DePaul	Beatty	1 Jun 2014	23 Nov 2014
181	"The Iceman"	DePaul	Beatty	30 Nov 2014	7 Jun 2015
182	"The Battlements of the Nomad"	DePaul	Beatty	14 Jun 2015	20 Dec 2015
183	"Trouble in the Twelve Nations"	DePaul	Beatty	27 Dec 2015	19 Jun 2016
184	"The Wiseguy"	DePaul	Beatty	26 Jun 2016	2 Apr 2017
185	"The Phantom is Everywhere"	DePaul	Beatty, Weigel	9 Apr 2017	1 Oct 2017
186	"The Rat Must Die"	DePaul	Weigel	8 Oct 2017	11 Nov 2018
187	"The Little Detective Who Disappeared"	DePaul	Weigel	18 Nov 2018	12 May 2019
188	"The Free Avar Front"	DePaul	Weigel	19 May 2019	10 Nov 2019
189	"The Spy Ship"	DePaul	Weigel	17 Nov 2019	12 Jul 2020
190	"Vigil at Phantom Head"	DePaul	Weigel	19 Jul 2020	14 Mar 2021
191	"The Visitor"	DePaul	Weigel	21 Mar 2021	10 Oct 2021
192	"The Ingenues"	DePaul	Weigel	17 Oct 2021	8 May 2022
193	"Return to the Temple of the Gods"	DePaul	Weigel	15 May 2022	16 Jul 2023
194	"The Commander Will See You Now"	DePaul	Weigel	23 Jul 2023	22 Sep 2024
195	"The Princess of the Songhai"	DePaul	Weigel	29 Sep 2024

Sunday page layout

The Sunday pages are designed so they can be reformatted into different layouts. This is to give more options for newspapers and increase the chances of selling the strip.

Over the years, the general layout of the Sunday page has been changed a couple of times.

Layout 1970 – present

Standard layout in portrait, half page, third page, and quarter page. The third and quarter pages omit the top tier of the half page. The portrait format omits the title panel.

Exceptions

Artists Graham Nolan, Eduardo Barreto and Terry Beatty have occassionally used layouts that don't follow the standard template, but still (for the most part) can be reformatted also.

The Sunday pages of April 6, 20, 27, May 4, 11, June 29, July 6, 20, August 3 and 17 2003 used a different type of standard layout (pictured above in half page, third page and quarter page), which cannot be rearranged into a typical portrait page.