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

Dan Herman is the owner and publisher at Hermes Press, the world’s leading producer of The Phantom books and comic strip reprints focusing on the art and artists. We’ve been lucky enough to have a chance to chat with Dan and ask him six quick questions about the current publications that Hermes Press have available. ChronicleChamber: Thanks so much for agreeing to join us Dan - we are big fans of your work! Your Phantom books are widely recognised as setting the bar in terms

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 the last week, the highly anticipated second original series from Hermes Press The Phantom: President Kennedy's Mission has finally become available via their website, other internet sellers, and has even arrived physically in comic book stores around the world. Each of the three distinctly different variant covers available (#1 by Scott Brooks, #1A and #1B by Sean Joyce) are beautifully rendered, and most collectors will be keen to pick up one of each. The 20-page comic i

It's been over two months since we first reported the 30th June 2017 release date for Hermes Press' new comic book series The Phantom: President Kennedy's Mission. Unfortunately that date has come and gone with no sign of the books, so the question must be asked: where is JFK? The short answer is - it's been delayed. Why? The San Diego Comic Con (July 20-23) is to blame! For the latest update, the ChronicleChamber team has gone straight to the source, Managing Director Sabrin

The team at ChronicleChamber has been given an official statement and an exclusive preview of the highly anticipated next comic book series from Hermes Press, Ron Goulart's The Phantom: President Kennedy's Mission. The official word from Hermes Press about the release date is ... 30th June 2017! Not long at all.... If you have a keen eye, you would've seen this series mentioned in the Previews magazines in the last month. So if you have not already, get your order in with you

It's been a long time between drinks, but finally Hermes have released their second brand new, specially commissioned The Phantom series. Across their range of social media and communication platforms tonight, Hermes Press have directed phans to their website where their newest incarnation of our favourite purple-clad hero is available for pre-order. A fascinating plot is promised, with Hermes spruiking a 1960's era Phantom in which Kit Walker is a wartime buddy of John F. Ke

In an article by Comic Mix they talk about the legacy of the Phantom to survive over 80 years in today’s world and correctly give the Phantom its true historical nod as the first superhero. They also talk about Hermes' up-coming new comic book series. Publisher Dan Hermes talks about their exciting Avon release but maybe more importantly he gives us some hints about the new series including confirming that Ron Goulart is the writer but also the story arc featuring John F Kenn

In the 1970’s several of Lee Falk’s Phantom stories were re-worked as short novels. Released originally by Avon Publications in the US, the series of 15 novels retold some of Falk’s most famous stories. Of the novels five were written by Falk himself with other writers filling in the other ten. Of these, Ron Goulart, using the pseudonym of Frank S. Shawn, wrote six. Recently, on the Hermes Press YouTube channel, publisher Dan Hermes has announced that his company will be repr