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Anthony Gillies
- Dec 31, 2019
- 5 min
An Interview with Luca Giorgi
Luca Giorgi is an Italian comic artist who first came to the attention of the broader Phantom community as the cover colourist of Frew #1800, that memorable 2017 Christmas-themed cover by Massimo Gamberi. Luca has since worked closely with Massimo on Phantom projects on several occasions, including colouring the cover of the well known Fumetto #106 [right] as well as Fumo di China #280. Luca also coloured Massimo's carton card from the 2019 The Phantom Gallery: Series 2 tradi
ChronicleChamber Team
- Aug 16, 2019
- 1 min
X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #126 - An Interview with Alex Saviuk
In this episode we are excited to be joined by the one and only Alex Saviuk. Alex is an accomplished and experienced Phantom artist, and in fact boasts the extraordinary achievement of having worked for the greatest variety of The Phantom publishers of any artist in history! His Phantom credits (both covers and stories) include: Marvel, Egmont, Moonstone, Lightning Strike Comics, Frew, Hermes Press, and even the King Features' syndicated Sunday strip! Over the course of this
Andreas Eriksson
- Jul 17, 2019
- 2 min
Phantom Artists Honored in GI Joe
GI Joe #263, released in April by IDW Publishing, features a special memorial day themed story called "Some Gave All". The story is written by Larry Hama (who has written almost every GI Joe comic story since this series began in 1982) and drawn by SL Gallant. In this story, the main characters visit the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Wall in Washington DC to pay tribute to fallen friends. However, in a close-up panel the names on the wall are all comic industry professionals who
Dan
- Jun 19, 2019
- 3 min
Gallery Series 2 Trading Cards - Available NOW!
It's been 23 years since Series 1 was in stores, and almost three since the promo card came with Frew's 80th Anniversary Special, but finally - The Phantom Gallery - Series 2 trading card set is available for sale! Creator Glenn Ford is understandably relieved that his vision of over two decades has finally been realised. "It all got done - it's looking amazing, it's looking fantastic." he tells us in Episode #121 of X-Band: The Phantom Podcast. Glenn was speaking to Chronicl
Jermayn
- Apr 28, 2019
- 5 min
Mythos Exclusive: May 2019 Release Date plus More News
A lot of phans from Brazil, South America and around the world are very excited about what Mythos has announced. Thanks to our discussions with editor Julio Oliveira and a second release article by Mythos, we are now aware that their new publications do not stop at their first release of Daily stories in the four issues they have already announced (You can read that here). We can now say that they will also publish eight editions containing the modern Sunday stories of the Gh
Jermayn
- Mar 21, 2019
- 2 min
Mythos Brazil Returns to Publish the Phantom in 2019
The Phantom is Alive! Long Live the Phantom! Mythos Brazil is back publishing the Phantom. Brazil has such a rich publishing history with the Phantom, and was one of the handful countries that published Phantom comics prior to 1940. In fact at one stage, there were even people who believed that Brazil had published the world's first Phantom comic! Of the South American publishing houses, RGE from Editora Globo has the richest Phantom publishing history, creating their own sto
Dan
- Mar 14, 2019
- 5 min
A New Phantom Card Game!
While we all wait on tenterhooks for the launch of The Phantom: Treasures of Drakon board game in Australia, another Phantom game is also being planned for a Kickstarter campaign launch - but this one is entirely card based and comes out of Scandinavia! Mikael Lyck, a Phantom phan from Sweden (and from recently, a ChronicleChamber contributor) has taken it upon himself to design and produce a Phantom card game. We must stress that this is in the stages of development. Mikael
Jermayn
- Mar 5, 2019
- 4 min
Norm Breyfogle and The Phantom
Reader Daniel Best has recently been in touch with ChronicleChamber regarding The Phantom art produced by American artist Norm Breyfogle (best known for his DC work) and Joe Rubinstein (inker of The Official Guide to the Marvel Universe). Daniel is concerned with the artwork produced for a The Phantom style guide commissioned by King Features Syndicate in 2004. Daniel got in touch with ChronicleChamber after we posted a few of those images on our social media platforms (you c
Jermayn
- Feb 4, 2019
- 1 min
Will we see the next part of the 22nd Phantom Saga soon?
On the 1st February, Sal Velluto posted a progress image on Facebook which featured a female and male Phantom, each wearing a Phantom ring, with the Singh mark behind them. It does not take much to put it together that this is likely to be Heloise and Kit Jnr reprising their role as the future Phantoms trying to find out what happened to their Dad, the 21st Phantom, who has been missing for a year. At the top of Sal's sneak preview, it has the title "Shadow of an Enemy". Howe
Jermayn
- Aug 28, 2018
- 3 min
The Latest News from Team Fantomen
Mikeal Sol and his team of editorial staff at Fantomen recently took to Facebook and asked for input and questions, and then took the time to answer them individually. I must congratulate Mikeal and the team for doing so and in reading their responses I learnt a bit and wanted to share it. While many responses may not affect the average Frew (or Australian) reader - ChronicleChamber is an interntional phan website and some of their decisions do effect Frew with their created
Gláucio Cardoso
- Jul 8, 2018
- 6 min
Interview with New Frew Artist: Wendell Cavalcanti
The latest in Frew's growing stable of artistic talent is Wendall Cavalcanti, an extremely talented artist from Brazil. This interview comes to us courtesy of Professor Gláucio Cardoso, a dear friend of ChronicleChamber and himself a published Frew author, with one of his short prose stories published in Frew's 80th Phantom Anniversary special. Gláucio is also author of the Fantasma Brasil Blog & TV Channel. This interview originally appeared on his blog; Gláucio has gracious
ChronicleChamber Team
- May 10, 2018
- 1 min
X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #95 - Newspaper writer Tony DePaul
Tony DePaul has been the writer of The Phantom newspaper strip and official keeper of Phantom lore since Lee Falk's death in 1999. This interview is a fascinating insight into his personal history, his passion for our favourite purple comic book hero, and the possible future of The Phantom. It's a fascinating chat with a fascinating man - we know you'll enjoy it... Happy Phantoming! #XBand #Podcast #TonyDePaul #KingFeaturesSyndicate #MikeManley #JeffWeigel #UlfGranberg #Semic
ChronicleChamber Team
- Oct 18, 2017
- 1 min
X Band: Episode #79 - The Empty Throne?
The eagerly anticipated three part The 22nd Phantom: Empty Throne saga has just been published by Frew and the phellas are ready to go hammer and tongs into a review. Though the phellas enjoyed the saga there is still a lot that they disagree on. This amount of debate probably hasn't been witnessed since the Falkist vs Modernist debate but in this episode Steve comes down from his comfy perch on the fence to join in the fun with Dan and Jermayn. A highly entertaining, and s
ChronicleChamber Team
- Sep 10, 2017
- 1 min
X Band: Episode #73A - September 2017 Comics and News part 2
In the second half of Episode 73, Steve, Jerm and Dan continue talking about the latest Comics and News ... and in this case it's all about Frew! Get yourself ready for the reviews by reading: #1788 The Baronkhan Sedition / SOS Phantom The Pirate Raiders #1789 Tiger Girl / The Lady Luck pts 1 & 2 #1790 The Cold Fire Worshippers / Phantom by Gaslight Pt 2 #1791 The Belt / The Master Spy / The Lady From Nowhere / The Crooner Happy Phantoming! #XBand #Podcast #Frew #LeeFalk #Pau
Jermayn
- Jun 5, 2017
- 14 min
Interview with Tony DePaul
For those who came in late... Earlier this week long-time author Tony DePaul announced that the current The Phantom stories are to be his last contributions to the Daily and Sunday newspaper strips. As the second-longest serving The Phantom author behind only Lee Falk, Tony will forever be remembered as a crucial part of Phantom history. Despite the success of the strip in the 1970's and 1980's, the strip suffered in the 1990's with Sy Barry retiring and Falk passing away, an
Jermayn
- May 7, 2017
- 3 min
Terry Beatty Quits the Sunday Strip
Today we would've probably all seen the sad news that Terry Beatty has drawn his last Sunday strip, ending a five-year reign with the character we have an unhealthy addiction to: The Phantom, the Ghost Who Walks and the Guardian of the Eastern Dark. The Sunday page in newspapers today (below) is his final contribution to the strip. You can read Terry's official statement on his Facebook page, and with his permission we have reposted it here: Are you sitting down? This will co
ChronicleChamber Team
- Mar 13, 2017
- 1 min
X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #58 - Frew Renaissance Year One
It has been 12 months since Glenn Ford and Rene White took over ownership of Frew Publications and, along with publisher Dudley Hogarth, formed the Frew Crew. For this episode Dan, Jermayn and Steve look back at Frew Crew: Year One going through innovations, positives, minuses, and things we thought were interesting. We also put forward what we would like to see in Year Two. Enjoy! In the episode, we refer to a bunch of statistics around Year One. These are posted below fo
ChronicleChamber Team
- Jan 7, 2017
- 4 min
A Look Back at 2016
With 2017 officially here it is the perfect time to look back at the year that was. 2016 was another big year for not only we here at ChronicleChamber but also the Phantom himself. Join us as we look back at the biggest stories of last year. 80th Anniversary: February 17, 2016 saw Lee Falk's hero turn 80 years young. Still enjoying any level of popularity after 80 years is an achievement for any fictional character but The Phantom still enjoys on-going publication in Australi
Jermayn
- Aug 8, 2016
- 2 min
Egmont Empty Throne Storyline Getting Attention from the Swedish Media
Chronicle Chamber has posted and discussed in the latest Podcast about the Empty Throne Saga from Egmont which is written by Claes Reimerthi and drawn by the late Paul Ryan. It features the 21st Phantom missing for over a year and features Kit and Heloise going through the procedure off becoming the 22nd Phantom. As discussed before these stories are not a 'What If' story line that does not exist in the Egmont canon. The first website the article was featured in was Aftonblad
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