Kari Leppänen
Finnish comic strip artist
Kari Tapio Leppänen (born September 1, 1945) is a Finnish comics artist who has worked on "the Phantom" since 1979. Leppänen's career started in the magazine Sarjis. This was a magazine with only Finnish series. He wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Oskari. The Swedish comics publisher Semic became aware of his work and offered him a job as an artist on the Phantom series.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5947255. VIAF identifies the subject as 255145542807396642048. The Library of Congress control number is no2016007839. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1945 and 1979.
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