The Parasite

The Parasite
Produced for:	Fantomen 17/1974
# of pgs:	22
Writer:	Janne Lundström
Artist:	Jaime Vallvé
Original colorist:	N/A
Producer:	Semic Press

"The Parasite" is a 1974 Team Fantomen story, written by Janne Lundström, with art by Jaime Vallvé.

Plot summary

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Appearances

Recurring characters

• The 21st Phantom
• Diana Palmer
• Devil
• Guran
• Hero
• Venus (assumed)

One-time characters

• Chief of the Patago Tribe
• Gollum
• Bandar warriors
• Patago villagers

Locations

• Bengali
  • Deep Woods
    • The Whispering Grove
    • The Skull Cave
      • The Skull Throne
  • Patago Village
• The Misty Mountains (mentioned)

Tribes

• Patago
• Bandar

Behind the scenes

Diana: "I always feel so happy when I am with you! There is no greater happiness!"
Devil: "Then you have never bitten a cat's tail!"

• Devil's thoughts are presented in a thought bubble in this story. Writer Janne Lundström would often include lines and thoughts for Devil in his scripts, as a joke for editor Ulf Granberg who would then edit them out before the story was published. However, in this case Granberg kept Devil's line and as a consequence Lundström never dared to insert jokes of that kind again. The only other time that Devil's thoughts have been shown was in the 1984 story "The White Horseman".
• The character Gollum is inspired by and named after the character of the same name in "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Denmark

• "Parasitten", Fantomet #51 (1975)

Finland

• "Loinen", Mustanaamio 24/1974
• "Loinen", Mustanaamio 1974 (2017)

Norway

• "Parasitten", Fantomet 25/1974
• "Parasitten", Krønikebok #36 (2007)

Sweden

• "Parasiten", Fantomen 17/1974
• "Parasiten", Fantomen Krönika 4/2003

Turkey

• "Sihirli Kaval", Kızılmaske #169 – #171 (1976)
• "Sihirli Kaval", Kızılmaske Albüm #52 – #53 (197?)