Issue 1562 - Fortnightly, 2010

• "Hotspot Barbados" - story by Claus Reimerthi and art by Hans Lindahl.

Hotspot Barbados is aptly named!

Writer Claes Reimerthi and artist Hans Lindahl have teamed perfectly as usual, to project all the behind-the-scenes drama of big money dealings between arch criminals and in the process, capture the enormously different living conditions at the top and bottom levels of Barbados society.

The entire area is indeed a strange and often sad part of the world. 

In Hotspot Barbados, The Phantom and Diana are hot on the trail of the murderer of a UN investigator and by sheer chance, discover that an ‘old friend’ has also been in town.

The ‘old friend’ is none other than one of The Phantom’s oldest enemies—General Bababu!

Bababu was a Lee Falk creation who made his first appearance in the 1962-63 daily, The Mysterious Ambassador and was last mentioned by Lee in the 1994-95 Sunday, Battle of the Jungle Boys...