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Review of the Mad Cave Studios Defenders of the Earth #8 comic which was published on June 25, 2025 & features the end of this series.

The penultimate issue which sees drama after drama unfolding & the return of the strength of 10 tigers! You enjoying this series?

This review will host spoilers as we dig into the 6th issue of this series with two left after this. Are you enjoying the series?

Review of Mad Cave Studios 'Defenders of the Earth' issue 5 which includes spoilers. Are you liking the series?

The extended team discusses the new Defenders of the Earth series half way through incl the council of Phantoms and much more

Review of Mad Cave Studios 'Defenders of the Earth' issue 4 which includes spoilers. Are you liking the series?

Review of Defenders of the Earth #3, we learn more about the mystery surrounding the Phantom's behaviour & introduced to the Phantom Council

Issue 2 has a big ending from a Phantom phan perspective as we review the second instalment of the series from Mad Cave Studios.

Presenting review of Mad Cave Studios Defenders of the Earth #1 (featuring spoilers). Does this issue live up to the hype? Watch & find out

Introducing Djordje Djokovic who was the man behind the Phantom from the NECA "Defenders of the Earth" & "Original Superhero's" figurines

Mad Cave Studio's are releasing a new Defenders of the Earth comic book series from August 2024 by Dan DiDio & Jim Calafiore. You excited?

Has anyone noticed that the BFS & NECA 'Original Superhero' figurines have not yet made their way into many Australian shops & phans hands?

The New York Toy Fair is all online this year hence why Boss Fight Studio and now NECA are doing all their announcements in February. 2021 NECA released their first wave of the Defenders of the Earth range featuring The Phantom , Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless which was a great success. They have now announced that Lothar , Garax & Mandrake the Magician will be joining forces in the fight of good and evil against the world. According to an interview between Joe M

Back in November the figurines were announced by NECA and they are now available for sale in Walmart . NECA has a contract with Walmart and it will be available in other stories after a month or two. Eagle eyed fans will notice that the design of the figurine looks very similar as the Defenders of the Earth figurine ( our review can be found here ). The tooling is the same with different paint work like the strip jocks, box design and accessories. The Phantom features glow-

After their great success with the Defenders of the Earth figurines, NECA has announced January 2022 is the date for their Original Superheroes action figures including The Phantom, Flash Gordon and Ming The Merciless to be released. The price for the DotE Phantom was $32.99 while these versions will be $37.99. Unfortunately with a simple costume like the Phantoms there are not many possible changes between the two. The figurines are using the same base sculpt with some new

NECA 's reveal of making 7 inch scale figures from Defenders of the Earth in New York Toy Fair 2020 caught almost everyone by surprise. Nevertheless it was a boon for phans & this reveal, just a few months after Boss Fight Studios ' announcement of making The Phantom figures, felt like a bonus. Personally I was stoked with the NECA announcement as I much prefer my action figures to be in the 7 inch scale, over BFS ' 4 inch one. Plus I was excited to see these figures come t

As posted on this website many times, many Phantom phans have been waiting all their lives for a decent articulated Phantom figure. We published a detailed post about all figures available about this time last year in anticipation of the NECA Defenders of the Earth line (released in the USA February 2021), as well as the Boss Fight Studios toy due out later this year. It has taken a while but finally the NECA figure is available throughout the globe, and each member of the te

In some good news to end 2020 NECA has quietly announced that they will be releasing the first of their waves of the Defenders of the Earth range in February 2021. The first wave will feature Flash Gordon , The Phantom & Ming The Merciless . The second wave will consist of at least Mandrake the Magician & Lothar - no word on the third character - If we had to guess it would be Garax who was the leader of Ming's mechanical soldiers, the Ice Robots. No word if they are goin