Singh War, Part 1: The Flying Dutchman

Singh War, Part 1: The Flying Dutchman
Produced for:	Fantomen 22-23/2015
# of pgs:	22
Writer:	Claes Reimerthi
Artist:	César Spadari
Original colorist:	Reprostugan
Producer:	Egmont Publishing AB

"Singh War, Part 1: The Flying Dutchman" is a 2015 Team Fantomen story, written by Claes Reimerthi, with art by César Spadari.

Plot synopsis

President Sandal Singh is due to give birth any day. Her new doctor is one of Dogai Singh's men.

Dogai Singh's doctor tells him that he is suffering from lung cancer and only has a few months left to live. Dogai Singh comes up with a plan that will reunite the two branches of the Singh pirates and also give him revenge against his own daughter Sandal Singh and the Phantom. The plan will be executed by Rahak Singh. Dogai's plan is to put the crew and passengers of a passenger jet to sleep by a sleeping gas and then autopilot the plane into crashing into the Morristown stadium during an important cricket game with an audience of 50 000 people; and the plane will crash regardless whether the president transfers 80 million Bengali pound into a bank account or not. The president will have to choose between having the air force shoot down the passenger plane or having thousands of people die at the stadium.

Unknow to Dogai, Rahak Singh has modified the plane: the passenger plane has changed places with an identical passenger jet without passengers but filled with explosives that will crash into the Morristown Presidential Palace; the purpose being to have president Singh and her unborn child killed in the explosion.

As the plane crashes into the presidential palace with an explosion, Dogai Singh's men carry a struggling president Singh into a car and disappear.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• The 21st Phantom
• Sandal Singh
• Dogai Singh
• Rahak Singh
• Belim
• Guran

One-time characters

• Steve, bodyguard
• Scott, bodyguard

Locations

• Bengali
  • Morristown
    • Presidential Palace
  • Mawitaan International Airport
  • Deep Woods
    • The Skull Cave
      • The Skull Throne
• Sotuland

Tribes

• Bandar

Organizations

• The Singh Brotherhood

Vehicles

• Flight 714 from India to Morristown

Related stories

Refers to

• "Fateful Meeting by Claes Reimerthi and Hans Lindahl

Referenced in

• "The True Singh Brotherhood‎" by Andreas Eriksson and Janusz Ordon
• "A New Hope" by Mikael Sol and Anthony Spay

Followed by

• "Singh War, Part 2: Rodiagate" by Claes Reimerthi and Heiner Bade

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "Singh War, Part 1: The Flying Dutchman", The Phantom #1758 (2016)

Brazil

• "A Guerra Singh: Parte 1 - O Holandês Voador", O Fantasma #1 (2019)

Norway

• "Singhkrigen, del 1: Den flygende hollenderen", Fantomet 12/2015

Sweden

• "Singhkriget, del 1: Den flygande holländaren", Fantomen 22-23/2015