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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.

16th & 17th of May 2026, in Stockholm, Sweden, the Stockholm International Comic Festival (SIS) will have Janne Lundstrom as guest.

We review & discuss Phantom comics, stories, and related news from around the world for April 2026

To celebrate the 90th Phantom anniversary, Fantomen will be releasing a reprint of the first two Phantom stories in their 2026 softcover album.

The omnibus collection book will be collecting the Fantomen-created "The Phantom Year One" stories, in which the 21st Phantom is badly wounded

The Phantom community was in mourning with Ulf Granberg passing in January 2026, and the new Fantomen issue that is released 29 April 2026 celebrates the impact he had on our community. We released a special podcast, X-Band: Phantom Podcast #327 - Remembering Ulf Granberg which you can watch and/or listen to. This special 100-page magazine goes one step further, remembering and honouring his impact. First up is the great cover by Henrik Salhstrom honouring Ulf Granberg a

We learn all about a new Fantomen creator who has credits as a writer & as an illustrator and about a nod to a famous Australian character in one of his stories.

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 .

After two years, the third TPB collection is now available to be purchased online for 15,00€ (160 sek/nok, $20US and $25AUD). Click here to buy! These TPB's are published by Egmont Kustannus which is a Finnish magazine publisher and subsidiary of the Danish media house Egmont. Petri Aarnio is the editor of these three books. This volume is printed in black and white, which the stories were originally created for, and the TPB is 104 pages. This volume the stories included ar

We discuss all things Phantom from around the world for January & February 2026 with the latest Phantom news, and Newspaper daily and Sunday stories.

The poor Norwegians have had no luck in the last 8 years with their Phantom comic, with another Phantom series cancelled after 3 issues in 2025

Fantomen published 19 different Phantom magazines in 2025 & now you can vote on your favourite cover of the year.

We have a winner of the New Old Jungle Saying which saw 28% vote for the one created by Martin Blad from Ödåkra.

We wrap up everything that happened in the world of the Phantom for 2025 & go over what we liked & didn't like

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

A reflection on a legacy of a man who created 91 Phantom stories over a 45 year period for us to enjoy. Thank you

Sad news has come through that sadly Ulf Granberg has passed away. In our X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #110 , the team had Ulf in the top 5 of all-time influential Phantom people. Once you look into his legacy and footprint, it is not hard to see why. Ulf Granberg became the 12th editor of Fantomen in 1973, succeeding Per-Anders Jonsson , and continued until 1987 and then returned again in 2003. He did, however, remain in charge of the Team Fantomen production between his tw

Fantomen published 40 different Phantom stories in 2025 & now you can vote on your favourite story of the year.

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

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