The Ring of Death, Part 2

The Ring of Death, Part 2
Produced for:	Fantomen 19/1998
# of pgs:	24
Writer:	Kari Leppänen and Ulf Granberg
Artist:	Kari Leppänen
Original colorist:	Times Graphics Singapore
Producer:	Egmont Serieförlaget

"The Ring of Death, Part 2" is a 1998 Team Fantomen story, written by Kari Leppänen and Ulf Granberg, with art by Kari Leppänen.

Plot synopsis

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Appearances

Recurring characters

• The 21st Phantom
• The 4th Phantom
• The future 5th Phantom
• Rex
• Tom-Tom
• Devil
• Suran
• Emmanuel Capistrano
• Katarina Ulrikasdotter van Wallenbach
• Captain Johan Rosensköld
• Officer Creutz, Swedish soldier

One-time characters

Real-life characters

• Empereor Nero (mentioned)
• Gustav II Adolf
• General Pappenheim
• Didrik Von Falkenberg
• Count Tilly
• Gustav Horn

Locations

• Bengali
  • Deep Woods
    • The Skull Cave
      • The Chronicle Room
• Germany
  • Magdeburg
    • Maria Magdalena Church
  • Frankfurt an der Oder (mentioned)
  • Breitenfeld
  • Leipzig

Organizations

• The Jesuit Order

Object

• The Duplicate Skull Ring

Related stories

Preceded by

• "The Ring of Death, Part 1" by Ulf Granberg and Kari Leppänen

Refers to

• "Plague Infected" by Norman Worker and Jaime Vallvé

Referenced in

• "The Castle of Darkness" by Claes Reimerthi and Joan Boix
• "Giovanna" by Ingebjørg Berg Holm and Dick Giordano
• "The Star of Sekhmet" by Ken Ikonen, Jens Hansegård, Kim McLaughlin, Felmang, and Edward Morrik

Behind the scenes

• The original publication in Swedish credits Kari Leppänen for "plot and art" and Ulf Granberg for "text editing". There is no credited scriptwriter. When the story was published by Frew in Australia, Ulf Granberg was credited as scriptwriter and Kari Leppänen only as artist. On his website, Kari Leppänen has explained that he wrote a complete script in English, and the edits of the dialogue was common practice for all scripts by all writers. He is however wrong that the edits took place when Granberg translated the dialogue to Swedish, as there is another translator credited.
• The real-life officer Gustav Horn appears in the story, but the Frew version omits his last name so it seems as if it refers to king Gustav II Adolf instead.
• The name of officer Creutz is left out of the Frew translation, making it unclear that he is in fact the same character that is in possession of the Skull Ring almost 20 years later in "The Star of Sekhmet".

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "The Ring of Death, Part 2", The Phantom #1212 (1998)

Denmark

• "Dødens ring, 2. del", Fantomet #361 (1998)

Norway

• "Dødens ring, del 2", Fantomet 19/1998
• "Dødens ring, del 2", Krønikebok #4 (2001)

Sweden

• "Dödens ring, del 2", Fantomen 19/1998
• "Dödens ring, del 2", Fantomen Krönika 6/2002 (one page of present day intro removed)