Adventure in Algiers

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Adventure in Algiers
Start date:	June 20th, 1938
End date:	July 23rd, 1938
# of strips:	30 (5 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Ray Moore
Preceded by:	"The Prisoner of the Himalayas"
Followed by:	"The Shark's Nest"

"Adventure in Algiers" is the sixth Phantom daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Ray Moore.

Contents 1 Plot Summary 1.1 Appearances 1.2 Trivia 2 Related stories 2.1 Refers to 3 Reprints 3.1 Australia 3.2 Brazil 3.3 Finland 3.4 France 3.5 Kingdom of Italy 3.6 Italy 3.7 Mexico 3.8 New Zealand 3.9 Norway 3.10 Spain 3.11 Spain 3.12 Sweden 3.13 Turkey 3.14 USA 3.15 Kingdom of Yugoslavia 3.16 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Plot Summary

The Phantom sends a telegram to Diana informing her of a date when he will arrive att Marseille by boat. When they make a temporary hold at Algiers, the Phantom takes a walk with Devil. He then suddenly is confronted with a woman screaming for help from a window. Immediately he takes the stairs and knocks at the door to the flat of which the woman screaming were in. There, he discovers that everything was just a fraud to lure stupid tourist into an ambush to rob them. The Phantom quickly starts beating them down, but then, he hear the signal from his ship; it is about to depart from Algiers! He immediately leave the would-be robbers and starts running for the ship. The robbers, not realizing whom they have ambushed, then tries to stop him. He then reveal himself as the Phantom while fighting them and they are terrified. He then teaches the woman a lesson for acting as bait.

Suddenly he realizes that he has forgotten the ship and starts running, but it is too late; the ship has gone and the motor boat which he quickly hires to be taken to the ship runs out of fuel. He then sends a telegram to Diana to explain that he will be four days late.

Meanwhile, in Paris, Diana has great difficulties in persuading her mother that the Phantom is the right man for her. When the Phantom's telegram arrives to their house, Diana's mother quickly takes care of it, in order to destroy her daughter's relationship with the Phantom. Diana takes it very hard that the Phantom is not aboard the ship that he has written that he shall, though she convinces herself that something must have happened.

Diana's mother then makes her next move in that she makes her doctor telling Diana that she is ill and have to go back to the states. Diana writes a letter, explaining everything to the Phantom, however, her mother finds it and destroys it before making a new letter in which Diana ends their relationship.

When the Phantom finally arrives at Paris, he discovers the letter and has his heart crushed. Everywhere he look, he sees couples in love.

In the states, Diana's mother turns out to be of extremely good health and Diana is finally told the entire story of the telegram and the letter. She immediately send a telegram to an address in Paris of whom the Phantom has told her, the telegram arrives too late, however; the Phantom has already leaved for the jungle.

Appearances

Trivia

• For the second time, the Phantom is seen traveling in Cabin 14.
• This story marks the first appearance of the classic Phantom introduction, retelling the story of how the first Phantom came to swear the Oath of the Skull. Unlike the Phantom's long retelling of the same event in "The Singh Brotherhood", this time he is said to be washed up on the shore of an Indian jungle.
• Diana and her mother still stay at (the real-life) Hotel George III, where they also lived at in "The Prisoner of the Himalayas".
• Mrs. Palmer's good friend Dr. Ned appear for the first and only time in the story, playing pretty much the same role that her brother Dave would come to play, starting a few years later.
• Diana tells her mother that she will marry the Phantom.
• Along with "The Wisdom of Solomon" this is the shortest Phantom daily story ever published.

Related stories

Refers to

• "The Prisoner of the Himalayas" by Lee Falk and Ray Moore

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "The Pirate Baron", The Phantom #3 (1939)
• The Phantom #16 (1949)
• Giant Size Phantom #3 (1957)
• The Phantom #221 – #222 (1962)
• The Phantom #350 (1967)
• The Phantom #380 (1968)
• The Phantom #540 (1974)
• The Phantom #721 (1981)
• The Phantom #931A (1989)
• The Phantom #1249 (2000)

Brazil

• O Globo Juvenil #163 – #176 (1938)
• "A Ilha dos Piratas", Almanaque do Fantasma para 1962 (edited together with "The Shark's Nest")
• "O Ninho do Tubarão", Almanaque do Gibi Nostalgia #3 (1976)
• "A lenda do Fantasma", O Fantasma #11 (1970; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")
• "A lenda do Fantasma", Fantasma - Edição Histórica #12 (1995; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")

Finland

• "Seikkailu Algerissa", Mustanaamio 14/2006

France

• Aventures 42/1938 – 9/1939
• "L'intrigue de Madame Palmer", Aventures et Mystère #20 and "Le baron pirate", #21 (1940; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")
• "L'intrigue de madame Palmer", Aventures et Mystère #19 (1947)
• Le Fantôme contre le baron pirate (1965; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")
• "Les hors la loi de l'océan", Le Fantôme Spécial #51 (1967; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")
• Album Copyright Tome 3 (Futuroplis) Le Fantôme Vol. 3 1938 – 1939 (1985)

Kingdom of Italy

• "Una sosta angosciosa", L'Avventuroso #201 – #206

Italy

• "Una notte in Algeri", Collana Albi grandi avventure #8 (1946)
• "Il fuorilegge dell'occeano", L'Uomo Mascherato Super Albo #57 (1963; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")
• L'olimpo dei fumetti #7 (1972)
• Ristampa Nerbini (1976)
• "Una sosta angosciosa", Phantom #7 (1992)

Mexico

• Paquito #10030

New Zealand

• The Phantom #78 – #80

Norway

• "Eventyr i Algerie", Fantomet 26/1994 (supplement)
• "Eventyr i Algerie", Klassikerserien #6 (2004)
• "Eventyr i Algerie", Fantomet 13/2006

Spain

• "La intriga de la señora Palmer", El Hombre Enmascarado #15 (1941; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")

Spain

• "Regreso Accidentado", El Hombre Enmascarado #42 - #43 (1977)
• "La intriga de la señora Palmer", El Hombre Enmascarado #40 (1990; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")

Sweden

• "Äventyr i Algeriet", Vecko-Revyn 21–29/1940
• "Äventyr i Alger", Fantomen 14/2006

Turkey

• "Kızıl Maskenin Hayatı", 1001 Roman #108 - #125
• "Kızıl Maskenin Hayatı", Red Kit #? – #13 (1965; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")
• "Kızıl Maskenin Hayatı", Kızıl Maske (#10-11?) (1968; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")

USA

• Ace Comics #54 - #56 (1938)
• "The Quest for Diana", Comics Revue #123
• The Complete Newspaper Dailies: Volume Two 1937–1939 (2010)

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

• Mika Miš #337 - #348 (1939)
• "Baron Grover", Zabavnik #93 (1940; edited together with "The Shark's Nest")

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

• "Ajkulino gnezdo", Biblioteka Nostalgija #7 (1988; edited together with "The Shark's Nest" and "Fishers of Pearls")