Results for 2025 Best Fantomen cover announced - congratulations to Henrik Sahlström

400 fans from around the world have made their opinions count and have voted on their best Fantomen cover of 2025. The results have been announced in Fantomen 17/2026. This tradition of fans voting for their favourite cover of the previous year has been going on since 1971.

Just over 28% of all the fans voted for Fantomen 1/2025 as their favourite cover. The cover was drawn by Henrik Salhström who has now won 7 best covers as voted by the fans. This cover is iconic with Hero and the Phantom riding into action.

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  Fantomen 1/2025 virgin cover

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  Fantomen 25-26/2025 virgin cover

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  Fantomen 18-19/2025 virgin cover

Henry Johannes came in second with his Fantomen 25-26/2024 cover, with 19.8% of all fans voting for this cover. This cover was a modern retake on the famous panel in the "Childhood of the Phantom" storyline and is fairly iconic. In third place with 13.8% of all votes was another Henrik Salhström cover for the special 75th Fantomen anniversary comic Fantomen 18-19/2025 which is no surprise seeing the comic was sold out throughout Sweden.

Rounding out the top 10, we have Henry Johannes, filling 4 of the 11 covers (Fantomen 4/2025, Fantomen 14-15/2026, Fantomen 17/2026, and Fantomen 25-26/2026), and three other different artists all receiving a top 10 placing, which shows a great spread of talented artists covering a range of tastes. These artists are Luca Erbetta with Fantomen 2-3/2025, Fantomen 9/2025, and Fantomen 13-2025. Percy Ochoa with Fantomen 20/2025 and Rafael Ruiz with Fantomen 8/2025. Every issue received at least a vote which is nice.

In 2025, Fantomen changed up the style on their covers a bit, with Rafael Ruiz and Kasia Nie having a different artistic style than what the Swedish readers are used to, and purely judging by the votes, this new style has not been popular. Will it take time for the readers to learn to like this new style? Are the fans who like this 'modern' look simply non-voters with only a small fraction of the whole readership voting?

Voting is important as it helps the editors and the ones who make the financial decisions know what direction to go towards.

The below page outlining all the votes for all covers was printed in Fantomen 16/2025 along with a poster of the cover. Winners of the competition will have the prize sent to the postal address that they supplied when adding their vote.