top of page
All Phantom News, Reviews, Articles & Podcasts
Search


X-Band: Phantom Podcast #340 - Russell Olson, Mad Cave Studios Phantom artist
In 2025, The Phantom returned to being published in the USA thanks to Mad Cave Studios. In this podcast, we chat with Russell Mark Olson, who is / was the artist of the regular series. We talk about the hits of the series, as well as the controversial moments like the Phantom's eyes being shown and the Phantom swapping out his striped trunks. As Russell Olson is a visual person, he shows us plenty of behind-the-scenes that is best viewed on YouTube. We talk about many topics,


X-Band: Phantom Podcast #336 - Juancho Vélez, Colourist Extraordinaire
Scott Waldyn, jumps on the podcast this week to interview Juancho Vélez, the incredible colorist behind Defenders of the Earth, Defenders of the Earth: Dark Destiny, The Phantom vs. The Sky Band #1, and the upcoming The Phantom vs. The Red Dragons #1 from Mad Cave Studios.
Scott Waldyn
May 18


X-Band: Phantom Podcast #329 - Happy 90th Birthday to the Phantom
The Phantom is now 90 years young! We had to put out a special podcast to celebrate. Come join us and let us celebrate together! First of all, we put the call out to our listeners, our phriends, those who follow us on social media and a bunch of creators from around the world if they would like to send out a happy birthday wish video to the Phantom. Thanks to all of those that did so. We have collected them here. If you missed out, send through a comment or post on whatever p

ChronicleChamber Team
Feb 17


X-Band: Phantom Podcast #327 - Remembering Ulf Granberg
Ulf Granberg was a giant in the Phantom community as both a writer and editor but perhaps even more as a historian and Phantom-lore builder who added structure to the loose lore established by Lee Falk . Sadly, he recently passed, and Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker (with a special guest) talked about his legacy and reminisced about our chat with him almost a decade ago. At the end of us talking and remembering a legend, we include some snippets from our 3-hour chat with him

ChronicleChamber Team
Jan 28


X-Band: Phantom Podcast #326 - Sammy J & Hero Complex Returns
Back in 2016, the comedian Sammy J debuted a show about the Phantom & a friendship that was created because of his love of the character, The show has returned!

ChronicleChamber Team
Jan 21


Joel Folda, cover & story artist for Tasq Force
We learn more about Joel Folda an artist from Italy and Malta who has worked on two covers for Tasq Force.

Jermayn Parker
Dec 27, 2025


Comics Kingdom podcast with Phantom 2040: A New Shadow writer Alex Segura
The new web comic Phantom 2040 by Comics Kingdom (owned and run by King Features) is now out and they have recently released a 30 minute video interview with one of the writers Alex Segura. It is worth watching and digesting as you learn more about the future of this new web comic. From the 4 minute mark, they start talking about the new Phantom 2040 web comic series. Some of our key takeaways are: Carlos will be wearing the uniform which see's a walking away from the "Walker

ChronicleChamber Team
Oct 1, 2025


Introducing Erick Marshall, the Saturday Morning Cards artist
We are huge phans of the collector Phantom cards by SMC so we had to learn about the main artist Erick Marshall.

Jermayn Parker
Aug 31, 2025


The Phantom visiting Perth, Western Australia
Details of an upcoming story of the 18th & 21st Phantom visiting Perth in Australia - the most isolated city in the world & home of the black swan!

Jermayn Parker
Aug 14, 2025


X-Band: Phantom Podcast #313 - Sounds from 2025 LFMBEC & Supanova
This podcast includes recordings from the Australian Phantom weekend, including the video from Lauren Marshall & 2x Q&As with Billy Zane

ChronicleChamber Team
Jul 31, 2025


X-Band: Phantom Podcast #310 - With Magnus Carling
We are joined by Swedish writer Magnus Carling who talks to us about his journey from a Fantomen reader to a writer & his mentorship from Dai Darell.

ChronicleChamber Team
Jun 23, 2025


X-Band: Phantom Podcast #309 - Australian Phan Weekend 2025 (Supanova & LFMBEC)
Every year Phantom phans from around the world descend into Sydney to meet up with other phans and have a great weekend. In this podcast we preview the weekend,d chat with the organisers of the famous LFMBEC dinner, as well as the dinner's & Supanova guest Lauren Marshall and Julie Ditrich who is the writer behind the key story in Frew's milestone number 2000th - The Return of the Golden Circle. Billy Zane will be attending Sydney and Perth Supanova events (find out more). As

ChronicleChamber Team
Jun 11, 2025
Recent Phantom Happenings










Preservation Project
bottom of page






