The Elephant's Graveyard
| The Elephant's Graveyard | |
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| Produced for: | Fantomen 6/1974 |
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| # of pgs: | 16 |
| Writer: | Özcan Eralp & Janne Lundström |
| Artist: | Özcan Eralp |
| Original colorist: | N/A |
| Producer: | Semic Press |
"The Elephant's Graveyard" is a 1974 Team Fantomen story by Özcan Eralp and Janne Lundström.
Plot synopsis
Professor Watson and his daughter are on an expedition but their plane crashes and they are captured by the Olango tribe. The Phantom hears about this and goes there to save them. It turns out that a Phantom many years earlier saved and relocated the tribe after an attack by white men clad in metal. Since then the Phantom is the tribe's guardian spirit and the tribe's chief ventures out once every 5 years to go to the Skull cave to give thanks to the Phantom. The chief lets the trio leave the village and they decide to go back through caves running through the mountain. Here they find the Elephant's graveyard, the professor wants to take all the ivory and get rich, the Phantom thinks it is a bad idea because it may attract robbers and adventurers so close to the Olango. After some fighting and a third party poacher joins in, both the professor and the Phantom are unconscious, Linda finds bandars that take them to Dr Axel. In the end the graveyard remains a secret and both men recover.
Appearances
Recurring characters
- The 21st Phantom
- Hero
- Dr Axel
- unidentified past Phantom
One-time characters
- Professor Watson
- Linda
- Olango Chief
- Elephant hunter
Locations
- Bengali
- The Skull Cave
- Dr. Axel's Jungle Hospital
- Morristown (Mentioned)
- The Misty Mountains
- The Devil's Circle
- Olango Village
- The Elephant's Graveyard
- The Devil's Circle
Tribes
Organizations
- The Jungle Patrol (mentioned)
Vehicles
Items
Behind the scenes
No writer was credited at publication. According to editorial documents donated to Seriearkivet/The Comics Archive, Özcan Eralp wrote the synopsis and the script was written by Eralp and Janne Lundström.
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Finland
- "Salattu laakso", Mustanaamio 25/1974
- "Salattu laakso", Mustanaamio 1974 (2017)
Norway
- "Elefantkirkegården", Fantomet 13/1974
- "Elefantkirkegården", Krønikebok #35 (2007)
Sweden
- "Elefantkyrkogården", Fantomen 6/1974
- "Elefantkyrkogården", Fantomen 13/2021