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Review of Frew #1952, the 75th Anniversary Comic Celebration feat 8 stories & 180 pages of full colour & 19 creators from around the world

Excited for the Frew 75th anniversary 180 page, full colour comic out on 31 August 2023? Included are the contents & two sneak peak pages

The team reviews 14 Phantom comics featuring 33 stories from Frew (Australia), Shatki, Regal (India), Sweden & Finland from May & June 2023

As revealed in our Best of 2022 podcast - the results from our annual poll of Frew phans' phavourites results are detailed here.

Time to vote for your favourite cover, story and issue that was released by Frew in 2022. 5 prizes to be won. Voting ends 5 January 2023

Bild & Bubbla has a long tradition of writing about the Phantom in their magazine. We have previously written about the magazine and some of their earlier covers here. In the latest issue of Bild & Bubbla (issue 222) there are two pieces about The Phantom in Australia and its influence by Swedish creators. One of the articles is written by Andreas Eriksson and is about the history of the publication from the debut in Australian Women's Mirror in 1936 all the way to prese

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

We all know about the beautiful and successful For Those Who Came In Late trade paperback released by Frew late last year , and are excited about the prospect of a Pirates of the Red Dragon TPB to be released as a Reward level or Stretch goal in the Kickstarter campaign for The Phantom board game in November 2018. ChronicleChamber has now discovered that Frew will also be celebrating their 70th Birthday later this year with another very unique and special TPB. As we expl

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

When news comes out of Frew Publications it comes strong, and so it has been today! The first item of big news is something that has been anticipated by phans ever since Frew started publishing titles outside their regular numbering: Kid Phantom , Giantsize and most recently, Phantom's World . Given that subscriptions have become such an important part of the business model, it was only a matter of time that these titles would also available directly from Frew HQ. In a Face