Fantomen Comics '85 (Giveaway)
| Fantomen Comics '85 | |
 Cover artist: Hans Lindahl  Inside cover: Hans Lindahl | |
| Country/language: |  Sweden / Swedish
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| Format: | 17 × 26 cm |
| Pages: | 36 pgs, b/w |
| Publishing date: | May 21, 1985 |
| Editor: | Ulf Granberg |
| Publishing company: | Semic Press |
| Preceded by: | none |
| Followed by: | none |
| ISSN 0345-3243 | |
Comics '85 is a Swedish one-shot free publication, printed in 10.000 copies and given out at the Helsingborg Comic Book Festival (May 21 to 23, 1985), which Lee Falk attended when he visited Sweden for the 50th anniversary of "Mandrake the Magician".
The front cover was also previously used for the Fantomen 9/1985 issue in April 1985.
The inside cover - drawn by Hans Lindahl - features an illustration entitled The Magician at work showing Lee Falk with his creations and dressed as Mandrake the Magician. The original artwork of this illustration was given as a gift to Lee Falk. A colored version of this image was later used for the special Lee Falk supplement, entitled "Lee Falk - Seriemagiker" ("Lee Falk - Comics magician"), released in "Fantomen 14/2006" (June 2006), issue celebrating the 70th anniversary of The Phantom. (This specific supplement being itelf a translated and edited version of the "Tribute to Lee Falk" supplement featured in the Australian "The Phantom #1438" published by Frew Publications in February 2006).
The back cover featured Mandrake, and was also drawn by Hans Lindahl.
Contents
Mandrake stories
- "Den gåtfulla lådan" ("Mandrake's Birthday") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
(Note: the first daily strip - June 11, 1951 - is missing).
Other comics
- "Fantomen" ("The Phantom"), Tempelskatten by Ulf Granberg (w.) and Kari Leppänen (a.).
Back cover
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bottom left line: "Special edition for Comics '85 - printing: 10.000 copies"
