Politikin Zabavnik

Politikin Zabavnik is the name of a long-running comic magazine published in former Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia.

History

The comic magazine Politikin Zabavnik was launched in 1939 by the publisher Politika. Since the start it has included various comics mixed with entertaining articles on popular subjects. In the period from 1939 to 1941, 220 issues were published. A new series started in 1952 with a new issue #1.

The magazine is published in Serbian with cyrillic alphabet (as Политикин Забавник) but editions in Slovenian and Serbian with latin alphabet have also appeared over the years. As of 2018, Politikin Zabavnik is still being published with over 3430 issues published in total.

Published stories

Newspaper stories

Issues	Title	Writer	Artist	Comments
917	"The Veiled Lady"	Falk	Barry	in a supplement
925	"The Bad Ones"	Falk	Barry	in a supplement
944	"The Hanta Witch"	Falk	Barry
955	"The Flying Horse"	Falk	McCoy
967	"The Betrothal"	Falk	McCoy
977	"The Plant God of the Massau"	Falk	McCoy
989	"The Swamp Rats"	Falk	McCoy
993	"The Childhood of the Phantom"	Falk	McCoy
999	"The Monkey Mail"	Falk	McCoy
1009	"The Jungle Olympics"	Falk	McCoy
1016	"The Honeymooners"	Falk	McCoy
1028	"The Goggle-Eye Pirates"	Falk	McCoy
1038	"Treasure of the Skull Cave"	Falk	Barry
1049	"The Epidemic"	Falk	Barry
1062	part of "The 50th Wife" & "The Iron Dragon"	Falk	McCoy	the last two weeks of the story "The 50th Wife" and complete story "The Iron Dragon"
1072	"Fluffy"	Falk	McCoy
1083	"A Tale of the Good Mark"	Falk	McCoy
1093	"The Wharf Rats"	Falk	Barry
1104	"Strangers at Keela-Wee"	Falk	Barry
1116	"The Super-Jet Gang"	Falk	Barry
1133	"The 50th Wife"	Falk	McCoy
1145 – 1146	"The Mysterious Ambassador"	Falk	Barry
1161	"The Black Gold Pirates"	Falk	Barry
1174	"The Golden People"	Falk	Barry
1188	"The Missing Link"	Falk	Barry
1199	"The Reef"	Falk	Barry
1214	"The Werewolf"	Falk	McCoy
1231 – 1232	"The Mystery of the Island of Dogs"	Falk	Barry
1247	"Alexander's Diamond Cup"	Falk	Barry
1259	"The Satchel"	Falk	Barry
1488	"The Betrothal"	Falk	McCoy	some strips missing
1507	"The Underwater Diamond Thieves"	Falk	McCoy
1526 – 1527	"The Swamp Rats"	Falk	McCoy
1543	"The Jungle Olympics"	Falk	McCoy
1603 – 1604	"Prince Hali and the White Stallion"	Falk	Barry
1619 – 1620	"The Heirs"	Falk	Barry
1638 – 1639	"The Killer"	Falk	Barry
1644	"The Golden Princess"	Falk	McCoy
1669	"The 12 Tasks"	Falk	Moore, McCoy
1737	"The Reporter"	Falk	McCoy
1754 – 1755	"The Sea God"	Falk	Barry
1765 – 1766	"The Adventures of Lucy Cary"	Falk	Barry
1802 – 1804	"Tale of Joomba"	Falk	Barry
1805 – 1806	"The Blue Giant"	Falk	Barry
1828	"The Golden Beach"	Falk	Barry
1867	"Jungle Gold"	Falk	Barry
1880	"The Hawk Master"	Falk	Barry
1893 – 1894	"The Stolen Ring"	Falk	Barry
1928	"The Sky Divers"	Falk	Barry
1940 – 1942	"Phantom Treasure"	Falk	Barry
1963	"Rex and the Little People"	Falk	Barry
1977 – 1978	"Joonkar and the Slavers"	Falk	Barry
2006	"The Golden Wood"	Falk	Barry
2022 – 2023	"The Lake Lady"	Falk	Barry
2029	"The Two Signs"	Falk	McCoy
2044	"The Swamp Dragon"	Falk	Barry	3D
2105 – 2108	"Guardian of the Eastern Dark & "The Tyrant of Tarakimo" & "Phantom Wedding" & "The Three Bandits"	Falk	Barry	four stories edited together
2137 – 2138	"Return to Tarakimo"	Falk	Barry
2189	"Little Girl"	Falk	Barry
2204 – 2206	"The Presidents"	Falk	Barry
2252 – 2253	"The Embassy Siege"	Falk	Barry
2277 – 2279	"The Slave Market of Mucar"	Falk	Barry
2406 – 2408	"The Mysterious Ambassador"	Falk	Barry
2508 – 2510	"The Founding of the Jungle Patrol"	Falk	Barry
2548 – 2549	"The Smugglers"	Falk	Barry
2729 – 2730	"Kit and the Little People"	Falk	Barry
2730 – 2731	"The First Phantom" & "Walker's Table"	Falk	Barry	two stories edited together; many panels from the story "Walker's Table" have been edited or removed
2745 – 2746	"Little Girl"	Falk	Barry	in part 2 wrongly tittled as "Херој и зла коб III део" (as part 3 of the story "Hero's Death Sentence")

Team Fantomen stories

Issues	Title	Writer	Artist	Comments
2423 – 2425	"The Prisoner Who didn't Exist" & "The Blood Night"	Tierres	Vallvé	two stories edited together
2438 – 2439	"The Legend of the Swords, Part 1: Excalibur"	Worker	Vallvé
2450 – 2451	"Duel in Venice"	Worker	Leppänen
2457 – 2458	"The Battle on Malta"	Worker	Leppänen
2463 – 2466	"Night of the Jesters" & "The Demon in the Tower"	Tierres	Vallvé	two stories edited together
2475 – 2476	"The Elephant Sect"	Tierres	Wilhelmsson, Eralp
2492 – 2494	"Thor's Hammer"	DePaul	Spadari
2744 – 2745	"Hero's Death Sentence"	Darell	Leppänen

Articles

• "Личи на оца" ("romanized as "Liči na oca") by B. D. (published on September 18, 1970)
• "Смртни бесмртник" (romanized as "Smrtni besmrtnik") by ? (published on September 29, 1995)
• "Браниоци Земље" (romanized as "Branioci zemlje") by Esad Jakupović (published on March 14, 1986)
• "Тајна Фантомовог прстена" (romanized as "Tajna Fantomovog prstena") by Mirjana Ognjanović (published on February 24, 2012)
• "Црвеном оловком на Фантома" (romanized as "Crvenom olovkom na Fantoma") by Nemanja Baćković (published on April 26, 2013)

Issue overview

"The Phantom" appeared sporadically in Politikin Zabavnik from 1969 to 2004. The stories have been newspaper strip stories or Team Fantomen stories. In total, "The Phantom" appeared in 119 issues:

1969	917	925
1970	944	955	967	977	989
1971	993	999	1009	1016	1028	1038
1972	1049	1062	1072	1083	1093
1973	1104	1116	1133	1145	1146
1974	1161	1174	1188	1199
1975	1214	1231	1232	1247
1976	1259
1980	1488	1507
1981	1526	1527	1543
1982	1603	1604
1983	1619	1620	1638	1639	1644	1669
1985	1737	1754	1755	1765	1766
1986	1802	1803	1804	1805	1806
1987	1828	1867
1988	1880	1893	1894	1928
1989	1940	1941	1942	1963	1977	1978
1990	2006	2022	2023	2029
1991	2044
1992	2105	2106	2107	2108	2137	2138
1993	2189
1994	2204	2205	2206
1995	2252	2253	2277	2278	2279
1998	2406	2407	2408	2423	2424	2425	2438	2439
1999	2450	2451	2457	2458	2463	2464	2465	2466	2475	2476	2492	2493	2494
2000	2508	2509	2510	2548	2549
2004	2729	2730	2731	2744	2745	2746

In addition, the Phantom has appeared on the cover of issues #1785, #1878, #2455, #2719, #3133, and #3194.

Supplements

Politikin Zabavnik #1766 included game "Obucite Fantoma" (i. e. "Dress the Phantom"), and #1906 included a poster.

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  Poster.

External links

• Politikin Zabavnik (official site)