The Game

The Game
Produced for:	The Phantom #1
# of pgs:	32
Writer:	Lee Falk & Bill Harris
Artist:	Bill Lignante
Original colorist:	unknown
Producer:	Gold Key

"The Game" is a 1962 Gold Key story, written by Bill Harris, after an original script by Lee Falk, and with art by Bill Lignante.

Plot synopsis

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Appearances

Recurring characters

• The current Phantom
• Devil
• Hero
• Diana Palmer

One-time characters

• Gill
• Prince Ragoon
• Viza
• Beli

Locations

• Bengali
  • The Deep Woods
    • The Skull Cave
• Bengali Highlands
  • The Silver Palace of Prince Ragoon
  • USA

Tribes

• Bandar
• Llongo
• Wambesi

Trivia

• This is the first full-length US Phantom comic story produced for a magazine, rather than as a daily or Sunday strip. It's also the first full-length US Phantom story not to be credited to Lee Falk, although it is a new version of one of Falk's 1954 daily stories.
• Although the number of "the current Phantom" isn't mentioned in this story, the one-page introduction of The Phantom #1, which originally served as an introduction to this story and the entire line-up of Gold Key's Phantom production, states that "our" Phantom is the 16th of the line.
• This is also, for obvious reasons, the first appearances of the Phantom, Devil, Hero and Diana in a Gold Key story.

Related stories

Remake of

• "Ragon's Game" by Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Argentina

• "El juego de la muerte", Fantasía #177 (1971)

Australia

• "The Game", Giantsize Phantom #17 (2021)

Brazil

• "O Jogo!", Fantasma #101 (1965)
• "O Jogo da Morte", Fantasma #212 (1973)

Chile

• "El juego", El Fantasma #2 (1966)

Denmark

• "Det grusomme spil", Fantomet #13 (1972)

France

• "Les sept épreuves", Le Fantôme #9 (1963; redrawn by Enzo Carretti)

Italy

• "Il ricatto del Principe Ragon", L'Uomo Mascherato #29 (1963; redrawn by Enzo Carretti)

Norway

• "Det grusomme spillet", Fantomet 8/1990

The Philippines

• "The Game", The Phantom #1 – #2 (ca 1980)

Sweden

• "Det grymma spelet", X9 11/1970

USA

• "The Game",The Phantom #1 (1962)
• "The Game",The Complete Series: The Gold Key Years: Volume #1 (2011)