The Return of the Sky Band
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The Return of the Sky Band | |
Start date: | March 2nd, 1941 |
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End date: | February 22nd, 1942 |
# of strips: | 52 pages |
Writer: | Lee Falk |
Artist: | Ray Moore |
Original colorist: | KFS staff |
Preceded by: | "The Saboteurs" |
Followed by: | "The Impostor" |
"The Return of the Sky Band" is the 6th Phantom Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Ray Moore.
Plot summary
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Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- Colonel Whitley
- Captain Grunz
Organisations
Related stories
Remade as
- "The Pirates Island" & "Underwater Battle" by Guido Fantoni.
Refers to
- "The Sky Band" by Lee Falk and Ray Moore.
Referenced in
- "The Plutonium Wreck" by Tony DePaul and Joan Boix
- "Revenge of the Sky Band" by Andrew Constant and Jason Paulos
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Argentina
- "La banda del aire", Libro de Oro #29 (1966)
Australia
- The Phantom #74 - #75 (1954)
- Giantsize Phantom #21 – #22
- "The Return of the Sky Band", The Phantom #939A (1989)
- "The Return of the Sky Band", The Phantom #1270 (2000)
- "The Return of the Sky Band", Frew Trade Paperback #2 (2018; colored by Ivan Pedersen)
Brazil
- "A Volta dos Piratas do Céu", Gibi #321 – #474 (1941-1942)
- "O Retorno dos Piratas do Céu", O Fantasma: Sempre aos Domingos (2006)
- "A Volta das Piratas do Céu", O Fantasma #1 (2013)
Canada
- La Patrie March 2, 1941 – February 22, 1942
Denmark
- "Luftpiraterne", Serie-pocket #26 (1979)
Finland
- "Ilmojen rosvot", Sarjakirja #48 (1979)
- "Ilmarosvojen paluu", Mustanaamio 25-26/2010
France
- Robinson #276 – #279 (1941; incomplete)
- "La bande du ciel", Le Fantôme #398 – #404 (1972)
- "La bande du ciel", L'âge d'or – Le Fantôme #2 (1980)
Italy
- Il Ritorno della Banda Aerea (1972)
- "Il ritorno della banda aerea", Serie Cronologica #12 – #18 (1972)
- "La banda aerea", Superfumetti in Film #7 (1977)
- Phantom - L'Uomo Mascherato #1 (2017)
New Zealand
Norway
- "Himmelpiratene", A-magasinet 47/1941–13/1942 (incomplete)
- "Piratjakten", Serie-pocket #37 (1979)
- "Luftpiratene vender tilbake", Fantomet 24-25/2010
The Philippines
- The Tribune April 20, 1941 – ?, 1942 (interrupted, in January 1942 daily strips were published on Sundays)
Serbia
- "Povratak Nebeske bande", Biblioteka Nostalgija #1 (2015)
Spain
- "Las muchachas Piratas", El Hombre Enmascarado #2, "Rivalidad en la banda", #3, "Fuga temeraria", #4, and "La gran lucha", #5 (19??; part 1 edited together with "The Saboteurs")
- "El retorno de la Banda del Cielo", Phantom #3 (1998)
Sweden
- "Luftpiraterna kommer tillbaka", Vecko-Revyn 49/1943 – 47/1944
- "Luftpiraternas återkomst", Fantomen Christmas Album 1950
- "Luftpiraterna", Fantomen 4/1962
- "Luftpiraterna", Serie-pocket #79 (1979)
- "Luftpiraterna", Fantomen Christmas Album 2000 - facsimile reprint of 1950 Christmas Album
- "Luftpiraternas återkomst", Fantomen 25-26/2010
USA
- Charleston Daily Mail March 2, 1941 – February 22, 1942
- The Milwaukee Sentinel March 2, 1941 – February 22, 1942
- The Montgomery Advertiser March 2, 1941 – February 22, 1942
- La Opinión March 2, 1941 – February 22, 1942
- Richmond Times-Dispatch March 2, 1941 – February 22, 1942
- San Antonio Light March 2, 1941 – February 22, 1942
- San Francisco Examiner March 2, 1941 – February 22, 1942
- St. Petersburg Times March 2, 1941 – February 22, 1942
- "The Return of the Sky Band", King Comics #73 – #86 (1942-1943)
- The Return of the Sky Band (1977)
- Comics Revue #281-282 – #305-306 (2009-2011)
- The Complete Sundays: Volume One 1939–1942 (2012)
- Sundays Archive: Full Size Half Pages 1939-1942 (2016)
West Germany
- "Die Luftpiraten", Die Sprechblase #14, #15, #16, #18, #20, #22, and #26
- "Die Luftpiraten", Bibliothek der Grossen Comics (1982)
- Comic Rundschau #13 (1991; 1-page excerpt)