A comic strip becomes a hot issue in the jungle
The spear-carrying tribesmen of Papua New Guineahomeland of the cargo cults and of islanders who once regarded L.B.J. as a demigodhave a new Western hero to worship. No, not the Fonz or Jimmy Carter, but the masked comic-strip marvel who lives in the Skull Cave of Bangallanamely, the Phantom.
Every Friday thousands of natives stream out of the jungle to buy copies of Wantok (literally, "One Talk," but meaning people who speak the same language), a weekly publication in pidgin distributed by...
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