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Recently in Frew #2017, the 1987 Team Fantomen story "The Secret of Polymos" was published, and in our X-Band: Phantom Podcast #333 - March 2026 newspaper stories, comics & news review, we made mention that the Jungle Patrol Monument shown in the story was when it made its debut in the Phantom's world. The monument has remained consistent in that it memorialises an unknown patrolman; however, the design has changed slightly over the years by different creators and publishers.

We review & discuss Phantom comics, stories, and related news from around the world, including new products to buy & updates on the video game.

Leading American-based auction house Heritage currently has an original cover painting by phan favourite César Spadari up for auction. Bidding starts at $1 US and ends Sunday 19th April 2026, local USA time. You can bid on it here on Heritage From what we have been told, this is a larger piece than the one previously sold and features the popular Kate Sommerset character. The cover was used for Fantomen 24/2011 and Fantomet 23/2011 .

Ulf Granberg was a giant in the Phantom community as both a writer and editor but perhaps even more as a historian and Phantom-lore builder who added structure to the loose lore established by Lee Falk . Sadly, he recently passed, and Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker (with a special guest) talked about his legacy and reminisced about our chat with him almost a decade ago. At the end of us talking and remembering a legend, we include some snippets from our 3-hour chat with him

We take an hour to discuss all things Phantom from around the world for October 2025 with the latest news, reviews of comics and stories to read.

Something different with a bunch of phans, publishers & creators from around the world telling us what their phavourite Phantom stories are.

In our January 2025 comics podcast, we review 7x comics from Australia, Germany, Sweden & USA

Catch up with our reviews on all the Phantom comics released around the world for November & December 2024.

Podcast #244 was so long we have split it into 2 episodes. Episode #244B is a review of comics from Sweden, India & news from Jan-Feb 2023.

Forget eating healthy as a New Years resolution, let's read Phantom comics instead. The team picks 12 older stories for us to start off with

Bumper podcast as we discuss all the latest comics from Frew, Fantomen and France plus news inc the newspaper story cancellation & much more

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