The Mystery on Cape Cod

The Mystery on Cape Cod
Produced for:	Fantomen 26/1988
# of pgs:	30
Writer:	Norman Worker
Artist:	César Spadari
Original colorist:	N/A
Producer:	Semic

"The Mystery on Cape Cod" ("Mysteriet på Cape Cod") is a 1988 Team Fantomen story, written by Norman Worker, with art by César Spadari.

Plot synopsis

A fiction writer living on Cape Cod in Massachussets have an encounter in his home with modern day pirates but an undercover phantom in a hat and a trenchcoat who has a thing for pirates, comes to his rescue.

Appearances

Recurring Characters

• The 21st Phantom
• The 12th Phantom
• Devil

One-time characters

• Leo
• Ella, Leo's wife
• Morgan Lynch
• Max Carvell
• Lou
• Garnet
• Captain Lynch
• Llongo princess
• Cyclops Dan

Locations

• USA
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston
    • Cape Cod
      • Leo's house
  • South Carolina
    • Charleston
• Bengali
• Caribbean Sea

Tribes

• Llongo

Ships

• Moribar Queen

Behind the scenes

• The writer Leo is clearly based on the Phantom's creator Lee Falk. The story is inspired by a visit to Cape Cod by editor Ulf Granberg in 1985. An interview with Falk made during that visit was published in Fantomen 2/1986 and later reprinted in Lee Falk – Storyteller.
• The present day part of the story explicitly takes place on October 22, 1986.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "The Mystery on Cape Cod", The Phantom #945 (1989)
• "The Mystery on Cape Cod", The Phantom #1723 (2015)

Brazil

• Fantasma Extra #19 (1990)

Denmark

• "Mysteriet på Cape Cod", Fantomet #319 (1990)

Estonia

• "Cape Codi Saladus", Fantoom 1/1994

Finland

• "Cape Codin mysteeri", Mustanaamio 12/1989
• "Cape Codin mysteeri", Mustanaamio 17/2009 (colored by Reprostugan)

Norway

• "Mysteriet på Cape Cod", Fantomet 11/1989
• "Mysteriet på Cape Cod", Fantomets Krønike 5/1998
• "Mysteriet på Cape Cod", Krønikebok #12 (2003)
• "Mysteriet på Cape Cod", Fantomets Krønike 5/2006
• "Mysteriet på Cape Cod", Fantomet 15-16/2009 (colored by Reprostugan)

Sweden

• "Mysteriet på Cape Cod", Fantomen 26/1988
• "Mysteriet på Cape Cod", Fantomen Krönika 4/1996 (only the historical narrative)
• "Mysteriet på Cape Cod", Fantomen Krönika Band 4 (2002; only the historical narrative)
• "Mysteriet på Cape Cod", Fantomen 17/2009 (colored by Reprostugan)