Issue 1512 - Fortnightly, 2008

• "Viyaya's Treasure" - story by Idar Pettersen and art by Heiner Bade.

Veteran artist Heiner Bade has turned in a fine job illustrating Idar Pettersen’s script and as usual, has created some impressive villains.

You will like the central character—Viyaya—a former roughneck and criminal with a soft side to his nature, who finally realises the errors of his ways and starts a new life deep in the jungle.

That’s more than a little interesting, because you can research as many stories as you like by Lee Falk and Scandinavian-commissioned authors without finding too many which depicted the total reform of criminal heavyweights.

I always get a kick out of seeing The Phantom in action in overseas cities, but there is something special and satisfying about The Ghost Who Walks battling roughnecks in his traditional jungle surrounds!

Especially bloodthirsty types like Major Golovin, who is ...