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The Phantom is now 90 years young! We had to put out a special podcast to celebrate. Come join us and let us celebrate together! First of all, we put the call out to our listeners, our phriends, those who follow us on social media and a bunch of creators from around the world if they would like to send out a happy birthday wish video to the Phantom. Thanks to all of those that did so. We have collected them here. If you missed out, send through a comment or post on whatever p

Canadian comic artist Ken Steacy has his first Phantom story published by Frew, with a varient cover and Supanova appearances to match!

The results from Chronicle Chamber's annual poll of Frew phans' phavourites results are in! We greatly appreciate all the phans who cast their votes during the Christmas break, sharing their appreciation for the work of Frew Publications from the year that was 2024. Voting numbers remained consistent with last year's figures, and we saw a diverse group of phans from across Australia and indeed the world taking the time to express their opinions, providing us with clear insi

Fabio Alves (or Fabio Walker as he goes by) is the latest sequential artist from the Frew stable. We first saw his work in Frew 1976 as he took over from Daniel Piccitto for the ongoing "Operation Domino" series written by Duncan Munro . The series features the Phantom interwoven in the second world war with real life SOE agents who are fighting undercover against the Axis. You can listen and or watch our review of the first two parts in our July 2024 Comics and News pod

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

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

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

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