Talk:Östgöten

I am currently sitting at the main library of Linköping, Sweden, and going through microfilm. From October 1 1981 to December 31, 1996, the title Östgöten exists, before that, the title Folkbladet Östgöten exists from January 2, 1979 to September 30, 1981. I know (being a newspaper deliverer) that there currently is a paper called Folkbladet published whose main area is Norrköping (neighbor city/town of Linköping) that among newspaper distributors has the abreviation FÖ, standing for Folkbladet Östergötland (or something similar). I am open to the possibility that this might be the same newspaper (but I can be totally mistaken). Karl MAN (talk) 19:27, 3 November 2015 (CET)

After having looked closer at the microfilm, it appears that ÖStgöten was an edition of Folkbladet, whose main edition was the Norrköping edition, there was also a Finspång edition. Folkbladet Norrköping was apparently founded in 1905, while Östgöten was founded in 1874 (or something close to that). According to the Swedish wikipedia article they have been co-produced since the 1960s. The title is now only Folkbladet. I put up a discussion of some aspect of this situation at the Bandar Village. Karl MAN (talk) 19:03, 7 November 2015 (CET)

Dragos

In the early stories, the Phantom is called Dragos, in later Fantomen. I suspect that they bought the translation from Svenska Dagbladet and therefore the name changed when SVD did. Also, they are not published chronologically, hence the use of Dragos or Fantomen could be shifting. (The headline is, however, always Fantomen) Karl MAN (talk) 15:58, 15 November 2015 (CET)

All Swedish newspaper use the same translation, provided by Bulls Press. SvD was the first paper to print the Phantom and has usually been first with the new stories. Each newspaper decides which stories to print and in what order, and also what headline they want to use. So as you have concluded, that means that "Dragos" will be used for stories older than 1980 when Bulls Press changed the name (and SvD was the first paper to experience the name change). Andreas (talk) 22:44, 15 November 2015 (CET)