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I have read all the three parts of the story and want to say a few things.
First of all, Congratulations to mike bullock and silvestre for a job well done. This story was really entertaining and I enjoyed it immensely.

One small problem, though. This proclivity among current phantom writers to somehow try and insert a singh angle in every other story irritates me. Egmont guys have probably decided that they will pay more attention to singh brotherhood than the phantom himself, stories like “the road to power” being a very good example of their decision, and now Mike probably has decided to travel down the same road. Why this extra importance given to this brotherhood in recent years? It will be interesting to calculate what percent of phantom stories written by lee falk mentions the word “singh.” I don’t have the exact figure with me just now but I am sure, having read almost all of them, that it will be a very small percent. But now, any new reader of moonstone or egmont may think that phantom has done precious little during the last five centuries other than fighting singh brotherhood.

Finally, a request to Mike. Two of my favourite phantom villains happen to be the least talked about. Both are dangerous criminal organizations, one is called “the vulture”(D114, 1971) and the other is called “the hydra”(D102, 1968). Mike, if you have not already done so, kindly do read these two old Falk stories and try and bring these two criminal organizations back to phantom’s attention. Infact, given the current global scenario, “the vultures” will no doubt be doing brisk business, what with so many disasters, both natural and man-made, striking humanity with frightning regularity. How the misdeeds of groups like vulture or hydra have not caught phantom’s attention for so many years is indeed baffling.