In Fantomen issue 4/2020, as per tradition for the last three decades, we can now vote for your favourite 2019 Fantomen comic cover. You can vote here at this website. There were 19 beautiful covers in 2019 and only 5 of them were done by someone else then Henrik Sahlström. They are: Fantomen 1/2019: Rafael Ruiz Fantomen 6&7/2019: Sal Velluto & Eugenio Mattozzi Fantomen 8/2019: Rafael Ruiz Fantomen 9/2019: Luca Erbetta Fantomen 14&15/2019: Jan Bielecki This is easier for

In the last two and a half years, Coral Martinez has been receiving credit for her work inking Rafael Ruiz' Phantom stories. She has worked with Rafael on five Team Fantomen stories at the time of this interview. Three have been published by Frew in English, the story details are below: "The 22nd Phantom, Part 3: The Man in the Shadows" Frew #1794 (2017) Fantomen 2-3/2017 "The Scavengers" Frew #1845 (2019) Fantomen 1/2018 "The Pit of Doom" Frew #1853 (2019) Fantomen 1/2019

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 fast

It's time again for the ChronicleChamber team to delve into all the latest Phantom news from around the world, followed by an detailed review of recent releases from Frew and Egmont. 1m30 - Billy Zane autographs 2m30 - Kid Phantom cancellation 7m30 - Ray Moore sequel by Matt Kyme 15m30 - Lightning Strike 20m45 - King Features social media 25m00 - Monkey Mail: reprints 33m30 - Frew reviews: #1844 46m30 - #1845 56m45 - #1846 1hr07m - #1847 1hr15m - Phantom by Gaslight conclusio

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 flies solo as he talks to New Zealand born David Bishop who grew up on Phantom comics in the doctors surgery as a child and then was reconnected with our hero as he started writing Phantom comics for Team Fantomen. Listen as there is a fabulous in depth conversation of his Phantom stories including the classic ongoing saga of the female pirate called Kate Sommerset and her adventures with not one, but three different Phantom generations including mothering the 17th Ph

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 best story as voted by the phans is "Spöket vid Gallows' Inn" which featured in Fantomen issue 17/2018 written by Claes Reimerthi and drawn by Heiner Bade. This is yet to published by Frew and a crude Swedish to English translation of the title would be "The Ghost at Gallows' Inn". Second overall in the votes was Andreas Eriksson's "Blodregn

The Frew Best of 2018 might be run and won, but the Fantomen Best Story comp is still open until February 8. And now it's time to vote for the Best Cover of Fantomen 2018! Go to Fantomen.org or click here to get voting. Throughout 2018, Fantomen released 19 issues. Henrik Sahlström was the main cover artist of the year with 13 covers. The team Sal Velluto & Eugenio Mattozzi drew 5 covers and Rafael Ruiz did one cover. No matter where you are in the world, you can still vote a

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

So which were the most popular Frew stories and covers published in 2018? After a huge response from the phans the Best of Frew 2018 survey has been run and won, and many of you will have already heard the results on Episode #109 of X-Band: The Phantom Podcast. However today we're releasing the full set of results in written form so you can sit back and take it all in at your leisure! We were blown away by the entries - over 300 responses to the survey just about melted down

It's that time of year again - Steve, Dan and Jermayn take a look back at the year that was!. Reflecting on the 80+ issues of The Phantom comics published internationally, we nominate our choices for best writers, best artists, best stories, best issues, and best covers of 2018. We also consider what we thought was the best merchandise, our favourite additions to our own Skull Caves, the best moment of being part of the ChronicleChamber team in 2018, and our overall reflectio

WARNING POTENTIAL SPOILERS CONTAINED IN VIDEO!! Thanks to guest ChronicleChamber video reviewer Mikael Lyck, who reviews one of the most anticipated Phantom comics of 2018. Fantomen 24/2018 features the Egmont created jam story: Blood Rain written by Andreas Eriksson, and extraordinarily drawn by no fewer than eight artists: Sal Velluto, Heiner Bade, Alex Saviuk, Joan Boix, Kari Leppänen, Carlos Pedrazzini, César Spadari, and Rafael Ruiz. Please note: while attempting not to

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 jam to whole new exciting level! For the past three years, Frew Publications in Australia have released Jam Covers featuring five or six artists doing a cover together. Egmont have stepped up the concept to a new level in a massive logistical undertaking with eight artists collaboratively drawing the one story. The eight (8) artists are: Sal

For the first podcast of 2018, Steve, Dan and Jermayn take a look back at the year that was 2017. They share their thoughts on the best writers, best artists, best stories, best issues, best covers, best merch, best addition to their own Skull Caves, best moment of being part of the ChronicleChamber team in 2017, and what they thought of 2017 in relation to the Phantom. Enjoy! #DynamiteEntertainment #HermesPress #XBand #KingFeaturesSyndicate #Podcast #Frew #YearinReview #KidP

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

I guess for some, its the same as Australia but let us leave that to another discussion. The Phantom has not made many visits to the Oceania region and let us be honest - He Should Be! In podcasts in the past I have made claims that one of the reasons why Australian Phans tend not to like to the Egmont stories is because they are jealous the Phantom visiting Europe and the like. Well I reckon this may change with the Phantom visiting New Zealand in an upcoming story which was