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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

Your votes revealed - FREW phan phavourites for 2023!

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

Podcast #244 was so long we have split it into 2 episodes. Episode #244A is a review of the Frew issues in #1935, #1936, #1937 & #1938

Chronicle Chamber's annual poll on Frew 's phans' phavourites results revealed here! We now know what you loved about Frew Publications last year, as you the phans voted on your best Frew issues, stories and covers, produced and published under the extraordinary circumstances of a COVID affected 2021. After another huge response from the phans, the Best of Frew 2021 results are below, and are discussed in detail in our X-Band: The Phantom Podcast Episode #209 - Our Best of

In a bumper 2 hour podcast Jermayn Parker , Dan Fraser and Stephen East go over their favourites for 2021 from around the world. Mikael Lyck and Ankit Mitra also give us their favourites. We cover every country, every publisher and every comic. 10 countries, 100+ comics and 20+ new stories is a lot and even through a pandemic, 2021 has been a good Phantom year. In December we started the competition for the best of Frew of 2021 and we go over the results including drawing

Anyone reading Dudley Hogarth 's Message From The Publisher in the FREW editions published through 2021, particularly in the latter third of the year, will have some small understanding of the difficulties faced by the relatively small Australia publisher through a second COVID affected year. Based in a city that went through over 100 days of lockdown from June to October, dealing with key staff working from home, a disrupted postal services and supply issues, FREW neverthel

So which did you think were the best Frew issues, stories and covers published in 2020? After a huge response from the phans, the Best of Frew 2020 survey has been run and won. Today we're pleased to be releasing the results, both here and in conjunction with our "Best of 2020" podcast. Once again we were blown away by the entries - over 210 responses in all. It's great to see so many phans, new and old, getting involved. Thanks so much to all of you who took the time to

Frew have recently established a great tradition of attending the Sydney Supanova comic convention, and an even better one of releasing beautiful items for Phantom phans to enjoy. This post is a wrap up of all the items that Frew have published on their Facebook page, as well as those that Glenn Ford told us about in X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #121 . The Phantom Gallery - Series 2 Trading Cards While they're not necessarily a 'Frew Publications' product as such, the rele

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

Please note that we will be touching upon adult themes in this article. "Censoring" in comics is such a negative word that tends to leave a bad aftertaste in everyone's mouth. However, is it always a bad thing? Frew and the Phantom have had a history of censoring. Some of the earliest Ray Moore stories, notably The Phantom Goes to War , were altered prior to publication as a comic book for Australian audiences. For instance, Diana being tied up in front of a cannon on a sh