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Following on from our The Complete Don Newton Charlton Phantom video review, we now review the first such complete compilation produced by Hermes Press. It was released back in 2016 and features the underrated artist Jim Aparo. Jim Aparo is best known for his time with DC Comics through the 1960s and 1970s, working on popular characters such as Batman, Aquaman and the Spectre. However, his first break into the comic book field came via The Phantom for Charlton Comics. He was

The team of Chronicle Chamber chat with Sal Velluto, an Italian American artist who we have admired ever since his work first graced a Fantomen / Frew comic. One thing we were surprised at was he has only been doing Phantom comics, covers and images for 12 years, yet he feels like an elder statesmen who has been at it for years. We learn all about Sal, from growing up in Italy and reading Fratelli Spada comics to working on comics around the world from Egmont / Frew and Herme

The Don Newton book published by Hermes Press has not disappointed! The collection of Charlton stories, essays, interviews and artwork gathers together the complete works of a man that many regard as one of their favourite Phantom artists. In the video review below, we look over Don Newton's Complete Phantom in detail. Fair to say we love the attention to detail that Dan Herman and the team have put into this volume. Make sure you watch to the end as we have a special competi

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 Herman from Hermes Press in their first Daily Volume reprint. It was the first time he had noticed they where edited and in talking to a few other phans, they hadn't noticed either. This article is a written explanation of the adventure we went through and I hope you enjoy this look into the history. I have looked at both the Hermes volumes

A little while ago we had the opportunity to ask Six Quick Questions of the crew at Hermes Press. Their answers were so effusive we just knew that there was a number of slower questions to ask in a recorded podcast! In a wide-ranging and thought-provoking interview, the ChronicleChamber team picks the brains of the American publishers of The Phantom: Dan Herman and Sabrina Herman of Hermes Press. It's a long chat for sure, so it's worth tuning in and spending the time to get

Hermes has just shared the cover of their upcoming volume 5 of the Sunday reproductions with the team at ChronicleChamber, and we are excited to bring it to you. In their latest YouTube video Dan Herman announces their Avon novels 7 & 8 (watch below), and its fair to say they are absolutely nailing bringing these out at the moment after their prior scare of cancelling the series. Hermes Press really do set the standard in the Phantom world for social media use and promotion o

Make no bones about it - at the end of 2017 there were some serious questions being raised about whether or not Hermes Press would be able to reprint the complete run of Avon novels. While anecdotally many phans were saying how much they were loving the Hermes Press reprints of the 1970's pulp Phantom novels from Avon Books, sales of the first four books were not sufficient to guarantee that it was going to be viable for Hermes to follow through and release all 15. Thankfully

President Kennedy's Mission, the original comic book series currently being produced by Hermes Press, is being dramatically shortened. When Hermes introduced the new story in March 2017, it was announced as an "all-new Phantastic adventure [written by] veteran Phantom script writer Ron Goulart [together with] with artist Sean Joyce", and specifically, a "five book story arc". Unfortunately, these plans have changed - there will now only be three books in the story. This week,

In a promo YouTube video this week, Hermes Press publisher Dan Herman announced that their latest anthology collection, Phantom Sundays Volume 4 (1950-1953), is printed and ready for release. Dan explains a few details about the book, and some interesting historical oddities about the comic strip. In the first first few minutes of the clip, Dan clarifies what is often a hot point of discussion among phans, namely the continuity among Daily and Sunday strips. He explains that

The Hermes Press reprints of the 1970's Avon Books The Phantom novels are a truly beautiful product - but are you buying them? If you don't, is there a chance that Hermes will not complete the 15 book series?? Reading between the lines of the latest YouTube promotion, uploaded just before Christmas from Dan Herman, Publisher at Hermes Press, it would seem that sales of the books to date have not quite been what they would have hoped. (You can view the video at the bottom of t