Timo

Timo
First appearance:	"The Phantom's Treasure"
Created by:	Lee Falk & Ray Moore

Timo is the son of Guran.

Fictional Character Biography

Timo is described by his father, Guran, as a rule-breaker, his most heinous action being the revelation of the Skull Cave treasure to outsiders and subsequent theft of said treasure. Though he helped with the heist, Timo was cut out of a share, despite many attempts to get the gang to live up to their bargain. When he is approached later by the gang to kill a man in order to receive his stake, Timo carries out the attempt before realizing it is the Phantom he was asked to kill. Immediately remorseful, Timo wanders aimlessly in grief over what he had done before a waitress named Rita finds him and brings him back to the Phantom, who, still alive, instructs him on how to make an antidote for the Bandar poison killing him. Timo dutifully finds and concocts the antidote, informing Bandar tribesman he passes of the Phantom's state, and stands guard over the Phantom's body while he recovers. Timo's defense of the body, along with his informing his fellow tribesman of the Phantom's possible death, helped delay the gang before scaring them off and saved the Phantom's life in a number of ways.

When Timo later agrees to accept the Bandar's sentence of death by poison for his initial betrayals, Timo is saved by the Phantom, who orders him to instead spend his life being a loyal member of the Bandar tribe.

Appearances

This list of appearances is considered to be complete, with reservations for the possibility of mistakes.

Newspaper stories

Title	Writer	Artist	Comments
"Fishers of Pearls"	Falk	Moore	implied, as "a son of a pigmy witch-doctor"
"The Phantom's Treasure"	Falk	Moore	first appearance
"The Inexorables"	Falk	Moore, McCoy
"The Challenge"	De Paul	Ryan	mentioned
"The Llongo Forest"	De Paul	Manley	mentioned

Nerbini stories

Title	Writer	Artist	Comments
"The Bandar Treasure"	Paolini	Lemmi	as Tim