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2020 looms as a year of sentimentality and celebration in Sweden as we lead up to the 70th Anniversary of the Fantomen magazine, first...

So which did you think were the best Frew issues, stories and covers published in 2019? After a huge response from the phans, the Best of Frew 2019 survey has been run and won. Today we're releasing the results - very exciting! It was an expanded survey this year as we added a "Favourite Issue" category, and we were blown away by the entries - over 230 responses in all. The google form document went into hyperdrive on the last day in particular as votes came in thick and f

Seeing out the year Phantom-style, Jermayn and Dan review everything Ghost Who Walks 2019. Wishing you all very Happy Phantoming in the...

The Gottenburg Book Fair is one of the biggest comic (and book) conventions in Sweden and to coincide with the convention Egmont Fantomen...

The Irish publisher Lightning Strike Comics has promised and produced great things on a Phantom-front, but have they delivered? Phantom...

Sweden's Fantomen issue 9/2019 has come out and it features the results of the votes for the best adventure story for Fantomen 2018. The...

News have reached us from Turkey that longtime Phantom artist Özcan Eralp passed away on January 12, 2019. His funeral was held in the...

Earlier this month, the Swedish Comics Association celebrated their 50th anniversary. Way back on the 7th of December 1968, several...

WARNING POTENTIAL SPOILERS CONTAINED IN VIDEO!! Thanks to guest ChronicleChamber video reviewer Mikael Lyck, who reviews one of the most...

In the back pages of the Egmont comic (22-23/2018) released on Thursday there is an announcement that is taking the concept of a Phantom...

Back in May 2018 we announced that there was a new Pirates Themed Softcover book being released this year. On the weekend at Stockholm...

If you have listened to the X-Band podcast interview with Hermes Press you would have heard me raising a couple of edited panels with Dan...

A recent Egmont story, created by Philip Madden and Alex Saviuk and with covers by Henrik Sahlström, has gained attention in mainstream...

Maybe you're like me who gets a kick out finding something rare, collectable and unusual that no one else knows about. If so, this is up...

We all know of the Defenders of the Earth and the Phantom 2040 animated television series, but did you know we almost saw not one but two...

You asked so we answered! In this episode of X-Band , the ChronicleChamber team is delighted to spend a couple of hours speaking with the publisher of Phantom comics in Australia - Glenn Ford . We last spoke to Glenn on Episode 33, almost exactly two years ago, and so much has changed since then! To find out about the phan, the creator and the artist, go back and listen to that one. To find out about Frew Publications - listen to this one! It's a monster recording, but on

In X-Band: The Phantom Podcast - Episode 78, Jermayn and Dan are lucky enough to interview one of Frew's newest cover artists: Jamie...

Yes, it's here - X-Band: The Phantom Podcast's 50th episode! There's no congratulating quite like self congratulating and the team are...

Frantic phans might feel like it's been a long time coming, but finally there is word of Frew's 80th Anniversary Special! On their...

Listeners to X-Band: The Phantom Podcast may remember when we talked to Scandinavian phan Andreas Eriksson that Andreas mentioned that Egmont would be reducing the amount of pages in their Fantomen and Fantomet issues. Of course we discussed what this would mean for Frew . Well, the answer is here… Thanks to Jermayn and his Frew subscription we get an early glimpse of what Frew are doing to get around the issue. Rather than simply reduce the amount of pages in their issues